In December, 2006, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse reported that over 100 million records containing sensitive personal information had been involved in security breaches due to carelessness, accidents or flawed business processes. As financial services companies embrace the Internet more fully to service their customers and improve margins, the risks associated with data loss grow steadily.

These information losses can be costly for banks, credit unions and other financial services companies in a number of ways:

• Fines for violating privacy laws and regulations
• Remediation costs
• Litigating shareholder and customer lawsuits
• Customer defections due to lack of confidence in security measures
• Loss of market capitalisation

Complete, Affordable Protection Against Data Leakage

• Outgoing email, WebMails, instant messages, file transfers and other streams that contain unauthorised sensitive information.
• Copying sensitive data from desktop or laptop machines to external media such as USB flash drives and CD/DVD ROMs which can then be lost or stolen.

The CI-1500 (Content Inspection) appliance enables IT, security and risk management professionals to easily monitor digital content flows to the Internet, discover data leaks, and enforce automated policies to log, alert, block, encrypt or re-route data. It protects customer data such as social security, credit card and account numbers as well as intellectual property such as contracts, financial research and source code. The CI (Content Inspection) Agent enables IT and security managers to easily manage device connections on all endpoint machines to ensure that the privacy of your sensitive information is not compromised. From a single Policy Control Center, an administrator can inventory external devices, disable external device connections, monitor files being copied to/from devices and secure data for transit by automatically encrypting it as it is copied.