What the heck is Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and why should you care? Palisade Systems CEO Christian Renaud explains in this two-minute video.

The short version, for those of you too busy to even take 107 seconds to watch a video: Your business is entrusted with private customer information that you need to protect. This information includes Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, Personal Health Information (PHI) and personal financial information belonging to your customers. You also need to protect your company's trade secrets from getting out.

You need to protect that information. That's dictated by laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and privacy laws in California, Massachusetts and other states. Credit card information is protected by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). If that information gets out, you can be subject to fines, litigation, lost business and customer litigation.

Data loss is what happens when that information gets out. Data loss is also called data leakage. And Data Loss Prevention is ... well, I think you can take it the rest of the way on your own.

Palisade's PacketSure™ solution provides data loss prevention by sitting at the edge of your corporate network, and filtering information as it goes out onto the public Internet, watching for protected information and protecting it without disrupting your business processes. It's available as an appliance that installs in your company server room in less than an hour, or as a service from our Managed Service Provider (MSP) partners. View a video demo, or get a live demo, or get a free Secure Assessment.