HARTE-HANKS ABERDEEN GROUP: BEST IN CLASS COMPANIES ARE LEVERAGING ENDPOINT DATA PROTECTION TO CONTROL SENSITIVE DATA LOSS, MISUSE, AND ABUSE

The majority of those studied indicated they are looking to implement an endpoint data protection solution to reduce data loss, theft and misuse on corporate endpoints

BOSTON, MA - December, 2006 - In today's business landscape, one could argue that if your data isn't dynamically flowing to vendors, customers, and colleagues you are not as competitive as you could be in the marketplace. In a culture where it's increasingly becoming more acceptable to email a colleague a PDF of the company's latest forward-looking statement, and to copy sensitive corporate files to a USB key for use at home, there are significant data security concerns among many of today's high-technology enterprises. While companies are trying to address these security concerns, they are also under ever-increasing pressure to comply with regulatory policy around personal and private data. Executives continue to lose sleep over the potential exposure of their company's intellectual property as well.

"The best endpoint data protection strategy falls short if it doesn't include data in motion and data at rest on stationary, mobile and removable media. The risk of data loss is particularly high in exclusively mobile workforces or in environments where intellectual property is exchanged through public channels. By operating in a blind mode, IT organizations continue to lack visibility and understanding of their critical data flow and they increase the risk of losing their data through unintended methods. Organizations need to take action in order to gain greater visibility into the location of their sensitive data, to understand the typical authorized use pattern of that data, and to protect it appropriately." said Brian Guild, Senior Research Analyst, Aberdeen.

The latest Information Management & Security benchmark report titled Endpoint Security Strategies Part II: The Endpoint Data Protection Benchmark, announced by Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE:HHS), found that the majority of respondents, 64%, report a desire to implement endpoint data protection in order to protect data on lost or stolen laptops. A further 42% report that they want the solution to control misappropriation of sensitive data by authorized employees, while another 39% want to protect themselves in case of lost or stolen removable media devices (USB thumb drives, removable hard drives, CD-R).

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