Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11

Symantec has introduced Data Loss Prevention 11 which is focused on simplifying the detection and protection of enterprises’ most valuable information - their intellectual property.

This release is scheduled to feature vector machine learning, said to be the first and only machine learning technology, designed to simplify the detection of hard-to-find intellectual property.

In addition, it will make the remediation process more efficient and effective with new data insight enhancements and additional security measures at the endpoint.

Vector machine learning, which is new from the company, can be trained using sample documents to recognise the defining characteristics and identify the subtle differences between sensitive and non-sensitive data.

This will eliminate the need to create keyword-based policies or to fingerprint new documents as they are created.

With it, a sample set of documents will be sufficient to create an accurate policy, and its accuracy is expected to be improved over time as additional positive and negative samples are fed back into the system.