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Can you trust every employee or user on your
network? Can you ensure that every user 'obeys
the rules' and does not try to access files and
sensitive data they should not? Are you sure
network users are not downloading files that
create potential security risks? Are you
secure in knowing that employees will never attempt
to steal or leak vital corporate data from your
network?
If you have any doubts in answering the above
questions you may want to read on.
"One of the FBI's leading agents in the field
of computer crime has warned that industrial
espionage and targeted data theft are on the
increase.
Shena Crowe, InfraGuard co-ordinator for the
FBI in the technology heartland of San Francisco,
said: "Theft of trade secrets is a very big
problem."¹
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- $4.5 billion losses per Fortune 500
company - Confidential surveys indicate
data theft losses are staggering, and
as much as 80% of losses are due to insiders.²
- The FBI estimates $2 billion a month
due to loss of trade secrets.³
- Internet misuse at work is costing
American corporations more than $85 billion
annually in lost productivity. (Websense,
2003)
- The number of malicious code attacks
with backdoors, which are often used
to steal confidential data, rose nearly
50% in the last year. (Symantec,
2003)
- 75% of companies cited employees as
a likely source of hacking attacks. (CSI/FBI,
2003)
- 45% of businesses had reported unauthorized
access by insiders. (CSI/FBI, 2003)
- Nearly 80 percent of instant messaging
in companies is done over public IM services
such as AOL, MSN and Yahoo, exposing
companies to security risks. (Radicati,
2003)
- There are more than 43 million users
of consumer IM at work. (IDC, 2003)
- 80 percent of companies reported that
employees had abused Internet privileges,
such as downloading pornography or pirated
software. (CSI/FBI Computer Crime
and Security Survey, 2003)
- A company can be liable for up to $150K
per pirated work if it is allowing employees
to use the corporate network to download
copyrighted material. (RIAA, 2003)
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Ascendant's solutions are built with asset
protection and user trust in mind. Our flagship
product, Ascendant NFM is a network file monitoring
security tool that can execute the following
tasks, all without needing software installed
on each network computer:
Prevent
Data Theft by Monitoring Assets for Changes
Ascendant NFM can
watch specific files and directories that
are, or contain sensitive data. If any
of these specified files are modified to
any extent NFM can immediately alert you
via email detailing what happened. Email
alerts will tell you what user performed
the modification, and when.
Archive
Copies of Sensitive Data to Prevent
Malicious Actions
Ascendant NFM can monitor your sensitive data files or directories for changes.
Whenever a file is modified a copy of the new file can be saved to a location
on your network, thus protecting against malicious data modifications.
Track
Web Usage and Download Behavior
Ascendant NFM can be used to track website usage and download behavior by being
set to archive any web related (i.e.: html files) and download file extensions
(i.e.: video files, tars, zips, torrents). |
¹ "FBI
warns 'your corporate data faces theft risk' ",
Silicon.com, July 2006.
² "Computer Security Issues & Trends," Computer
Security Institute, Spring 2001. The survey was
based on 538 respondents from computer security
practitioners in predominantly large US corporations
and agencies.
³ FBI/Financial Institution Fraud Unit
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