Security
and IT management solutions specialist StealthBits announced the release of DLP
Lite for File Systems, a free, regex data loss prevention (DLP) tool designed
to help businesses identify high-risk, unsecured content on their networks to
mitigate the risk of data leakage and theft. The freeware solution is a
file-level content scanning tool that pinpoints sensitive data within
Windows-based file systems and network file shares.
Key
features of DLP Lite for File Systems include a simple install wizard, which
once installed on a PC allows users to begin targeting a resource to identify
if high-risk content—such as credit card and Social Security numbers, employee
information or other data that is unique to an organization (e.g., engineering
diagrams, formulas, source code or databases)—is in residence.
As
a regular expression engine, DLP Lite leverages out-of-the-box expressions for
credit cards, Social Security numbers, currencies, phone numbers, ZIP and
postal codes. Users can modify preconfigured expressions to suit specific
requirements, use expressions found on the Web or create unique expressions
from scratch to search for virtually any file condition. Search results can be
exported to a Microsoft Excel file or reformatted into a customized analysis
report.
In
addition, DLP Lite’s scoping options, wildcarding and exception handling
provide granular search and output control, while condition context features
help reduce false positives by providing text samples found both before and
after condition matches. Its data pivoting and filtration features make it
possible to narrow down search results or export directly to Microsoft Excel
for more advanced analysis requirements.
“Knowing
that data loss prevention is at the forefront of many business’s IT security
concerns, we wanted to create a powerful tool that would arm administrators
with greater awareness about the content within their file systems so that
corrective action can be taken to protect it,” said Adam Laub, vice president
of product management at StealthBits. “DLP Lite is the first in our series of
new StealthTools freeware. By offering it for free, we hope to give IT
professionals access to an arsenal of tools designed to address difficult IT
management issues with minimal effort and at no cost.”
According
to findings from a recently released study on the information security market
conducted by TheInfoPro, a division of IT analyst and data company The 451
Group, DLP tops the list of trends driving 37 percent of businesses to increase
IT security spending.
