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Extending the Security of Office 365: Symantec Data Loss Prevention 

May 26, 2016 04:45 PM

While your organization has turned to Office 365 for productivity with the cloud, is your data safe and secure? According to an IDC white paper sponsored by Symantec, organizations should focus their efforts on the main areas of authentication and access control, data loss prevention, email security, and advanced threat protection to improve upon Office 365's integrated security features.

In previous posts of this series, we examined how Symantec Office 365 Protection helps fill in the security gaps that Office 365 misses; and in particular, email and advanced threat protection. In this installment, we’ll have a close look at how Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) can provide an extra layer of security for organizations using Office 365.

The need for Data Loss Prevention

While Microsoft Office 365 has some basic built-in security, enterprises should consider augmenting and extending the security.

Does your organization have a solid data loss prevention solution?

Organizations using the cloud need data loss prevention technology to locate, monitor, and protect their data―so that they know who is doing what, with what data, in real time. Data loss prevention can block certain types of sensitive data from leaving an organization.

While Office 365 has built-in data loss prevention and encryption capabilities, it doesn’t meet the advanced compliance and complex intellectual property use cases and requirements of enterprises.

Challenges faced with Office 365’s basic built-in data loss prevention:

  • Limited content detection methods (simple regex, some document fingerprinting, and basic watermarking) can lead to a high number of false positives
  • False positive can increase burden on IT
  • Incident remediation and workflow options are limited to basic notification and blocking

Overall, these obstacles make it difficult for enterprises to respond effectively to data loss incidents.

How Symantec Data Loss Prevention Extends Office 365

Symantec for Office 365 is designed as a comprehensive security solution that seamlessly integrates with Office 365 for greater protection of your valuable information while detecting and remediating increasingly sophisticated threats.

Symantec delivers enterprise-strength data protection.

Symantec DLP Cloud Service for Email is a new cloud-based service built on Symantec’s market-leading data loss prevention technology. It offers the broadest content detection capabilities, including described content matching (keywords, expressions), data fingerprinting (structured data and unstructured documents), and machine learning (for content such as source code and forms). These advanced detection technologies are coupled with support for over 360 different file types. It offers sophisticated policy management, reporting, and incident remediation workflows.

Use a single unified set of DLP controls for all cloud and on-premises environments.

Unlike Microsoft’s multiple management interfaces and disjointed controls, Symantec’s solution provides robust and unified security controls for heterogeneous environments and hybrid deployment models. This allows you to extend your security infrastructure and policies to Exchange Online and a range of non-Microsoft applications & mobile devices environments. The Symantec Enforce management platform provides a unified, easy-to-use management console across all DLP channels, including Office 365 Exchange, and other cloud apps and on-premises deployments.

Take advantage of seamless policy-based encryption.

Symantec uses a policy-based approach to encrypt emails based on message attributes or message content in a manner that is totally transparent to the sender. Unlike Office 365, Symantec’s encryption solution does not require encrypted message recipients to register or use a Microsoft account, or use one-time passcodes to access encrypted messages. Symantec Policy Based Encryption also works with all types of mobile devices and does not require apps like the Office Message Encryption Viewer to access encrypted messages.

A 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Data Loss Prevention

Independent research organization Gartner recently named Symantec a leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Loss Prevention. The Gartner recognition of Symantec as a DLP Leader assures that you are partnering with a leader in DLP technology.

Symantec helps you transition to the cloud with confidence

Microsoft Office 365 is an excellent platform to enhance productivity and while it does include some security measures, you should enhance and extend security measures with Symantec. To fight advanced threats, you need advanced protection. Symantec Office 365 Protection helps fill in the security gaps that Office 365 misses. We help enhance the security of Office 365 and most of all, create defenses to help protect your organization and your sensitive data.

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