• U.K. survey: SharePoint users freely ignore security measures

  Copying documents out of Microsoft SharePoint to less secure media such as email and thumb drives is common among users of the collaboration platform, at least in the U.K.

• Protect iPad data without hobbling users

  Concerned about sensitive corporate data that lives on employees' iPads finding their way to places they shouldn't? Symantec says it has an answer to that risk, and it won't get in users' way. In early 2012, it plans to deliver an extension to its data loss prevention (DLP) product that enables DLP filtering from the iPad or, more precisely, from files, emails, and any other communication sent via HTTP and HTTPS from an iPad through the network.

• Data loss prevention urged as security focus

  Data loss prevention remains a priority security concern for Australian companies, despite reported slowed growth in the area, according to some security experts.

• No classified data on misplaced USB stick: Defence

  Australia’s data loss prevention and encryption vendors will no doubt be salivating at the Defence’s confirmation that a USB stick allegedly found by a radio announcer on a Qantas flight does indeed contain Defence information.

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  Aussie developer claims cure for ‘Wikileaks syndrome’

  Confidential information released via Wikileaks has sent governments around the world into a spin and put businesses on high alert but one Sydney-based software developer claims to have a solution to the perennial problem of data leakage.

Whitepapers about Data Loss Prevention

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  Data Governance Research Report: From Policy to Practice

  The processes explored in this report simplify the approach to evaluate business impacts associated with poor data quality and explain how one can define metrics that capture data quality expectations and acceptability thresholds. Read the full report now.