In today’s times companies face the risk of losing out thousands of dollars as a result of data loss. Although most companies are aware of this potential risk not many companies know what steps to take in order to prevent data leakage. It requires much more than a simple security network to effectively be able to protect your data. For an organization to prevent data loss it much knows exactly where all its information is being stored and the place where it is being released to. As important as this is, not many companies are aware of these aspects of their stored data.

There are a number of important aspects that companies must take into consideration if they are looking for a Data Loss Prevention solution. Such solution systems must have certain fundamental qualities in order for it to be effective. One of the key features of any system geared towards the prevention of data loss is that it should be able to track and protect all the information irrespective of the particular location where it is stored. It is only when the system will be able to identify and locate the information that it will be able to apply the particular program required to prevent data loss.

Another key feature of a prevention system is to be able to monitor all the data usage and then prevent it from ever leaving the perimeters of the organization’s network. Restricting this prevention to Email is not what is required for effective DLP. Rather there are a host of other activities that need to be monitored such as USB drives, Mp3 players, blogs and instant messaging etc.