• Making sense of mobile device, app, and information management

  Smartphones, tablets, social networks, and cloud services are all popular, incredibly useful -- and a security risk. These days, the security focus is on mobile devices, as they tend to be used a lot to work with corporate information, but the variety of platforms, the fact many are employee-owned, and uneven security capabilities all add up to a real -- sometimes impossible -- challenge to manage them in the same way as the corporate PC.

• Full visibility into high-performance nets: Demand 100% packet capture

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• 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.

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.

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  Brocade Global Services: Helping Organisations Connect, Share, and Manage Data

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  Get the Most Out of Data Centre Consolidation

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  The business justification for data security