2009 Gartner MQ for Content-Aware DLP
Monday, July 6, 2009 23:19Well, it’s finally out. Gartner completed its analysis and published the 2009 Gartner MQ for Content-Aware DLP. Congrats to Paul and Eric!
There aren’t too many surprises in here:
- RSA, Symantec, and Websense are the only vendors in the leaders quadrant
- McAfee (previously Reconnex) and Vericept dropped from the leaders quadrant
The renaming of the report to content-aware DLP is meant to highlight identification techniques that go beyond basic keywords and pattern matching, and differentiate the vendors in this report from all the others out there that slap the label DLP on their USB keys in order to grab customer attention.
IMO, the folks in the leaders quadrant provide enterpries DLP… that is, the best, most comprehensive set of capabilities at the network and client to prevent loss of a wide array of data, including regulated and IP. The rest may be suitable to address specific use cases, but lack the breadth/depth in capabilities, as well as the innovation necessarily to most adequately address the broader problem of data loss.
This is the third year Gartner has done this analysis. Did they get it right? Is it better or more comprehensive than the Forrester Wave on Content Security? I’ll let you decide. You can download the report here.
-dave
Keng Lim says:
August 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Almost all DLP products on the market today are identity-blind. It is impossible to apply policy accurately without identity-awareness, which lead to high rate of false positive and false negative.
Dave Meizlik says:
August 19th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Keng - The ability to identify the user is important… so too is the ability to identify the data and the destination. But your claim about DLP product being identity-blind is simply not true, at least for the vendors in the leaders quadrant.
I’m not sure what NextLabs capabilities are in this regard, since they were not included in the MQ. Would you care to comment?
Thanks.
Samer says:
October 6th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
How about Trend Micro Leakproof 5.0 I don’t see it on your list?
dmeizlik says:
October 6th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Trend is in the report, but not in the leader’s quadrant, nor do they have significant marketshare/comprehensive and differentiated set of capabilities. Hence, I did not mention Trend.