Eric Wilmeth, Palisade director of training and programs, writes:

As potential data breaches proliferate, network administrators face the choice of implementing separate tools for each type of threat, or finding one tool to cover a variety of potential breaches. Each approach has its potential benefits and liabilities, but at Palisade Systems, we’ve chosen the multi-tool approach with our PacketSure™ solution.

Having a specific tool for a specific job has benefits, but can be costly. Specialized tools have premium price tags. Added to the up-front cost of the tools themselves are the need for additional operational staff (or added responsibility for current staff), increased difficulty correlating reports and data, and ongoing annual costs. All those expenses diminish the benefits of specialty tools.

Multiuse tools have lower cost of operation and ownership, and are therefore especially useful for small and medium-sized enterprises, with constrained budgets and staffing resources. When you stack up the cost of multiple tools against a single multiuse tool, you find financial benefit and value to the multiuse tool.

Also, aggregating and reporting data becomes much simpler. Multiple tools often require yet another tool just for pooling information, but the multiuse tool consolidates reporting.

And the multiuse tool requires less labor to implement.

Palisade System’s PacketSure™ Data Loss Prevention solution is a multiuse tool that covers the many avenues of today’s potential data breaches, and is built to anticipate and provide for new avenues that will emerge tomorrow. PacketSureTM allows users to monitor and control private and sensitive data. Compared with other products that are specific to email or web usage, PacketSure™ monitors more than 140 types of network traffic and communication. PacketSure™ doesn’t just watch for data loss, it also fixes problems to keep data secure. PacketSure™ is second-to-none in ease of use, reporting, and securing data. PacketSure™ is also the most cost-effective solution on the market today.

Every organization is different, but all organizations need to save money. Quality multiuse tools like PacketSure™ can help cut costs, while keeping organizations’ secrets secure.

Palisade's PacketSure™ Data Loss Prevention appliance can help secure confidential data on the network. View a video demo, or get a live demo, or get a free Secure Assessment.