You may have heard about corporations and government agencies, such as TJ Maxx or the United States Veteran Affairs, which have lost and paid out millions of dollars to recover from data breach fallout. Protecting Personal Identification Information or Intellectual Property materials is now a challenge for companies.
For that reason, data loss protection technologies (also known as anti-data leakage) become more and more popular because they provide companies with a solution to prevent from data breaches but also from their associated costs (negative public exposure, brand name damage, etc…).
While looking for a solution to fight against web juvenile pornography, Prof. Jean-Pierre David (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal) came up with a method to detect in real-time and at very high speed (10Gbit/s and more) the transmission of known files over a network.
Since it works at very high transmission data-rate, it can be placed directly at the company gateway and offers a solution to prevent unauthorized files from leaving it.
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