The transformation of proprietary intellectual property (IP) - research findings, product designs, source code and process flows into digital assets has enabled technology and manufacturing companies to speed innovation and dramatically reduce new product cycle times. However, this transformation, combined with the widespread use of outsourcing and Internet computing, has made companies extremely vulnerable to the unauthorised disclosure of proprietary IP by employee carelessness, poorly designed business processes or malicious industrial espionage. In addition, technology and manufacturing companies are required to comply with national and local laws protecting the privacy of their employee data as well as regulating financial reporting and access to financial information. As technology and manufacturing companies leverage the Internet more fully to integrate their global product development and supply chains, the risks associated with IP and data loss grow steadily. These information losses can be costly for technology and manufacturing companies in a number of ways:

• Loss of competitive advantage
• Threats to patent applications
• Fines for violating privacy laws and regulations
• Litigating shareholder and customer lawsuits
• Customer defections due to lack of confidence in security measures
• Loss of market capitalisation

Complete, Affordable Protection Against Information Loss

Code Green Networks provides technology and manufacturing companies with automated, easy to use and affordable protection against the two most common types of IP and data leakage:

• Outgoing email, WebMails, instant messages, file transfers and other streams that contain unauthorized 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.