In case you hadn’t heard, Vericept, one of the founding DLP vendors, has been acquired by a company called Trustwave.  The acquisition marks the final consolidation play of an enterprise DLP vendor.  Most significantly, however, is that I expect this marks the death of Vericept as a DLP solution. 
Trustwave has stated pretty clearly that they intend [...]

From ITnews.com.au
Details of 1400 Australian security professionals leaked.
Security vendor McAfee has sent out a bulk email containing the contact details of over 1400 security professionals that attended its recent conference in Sydney.
The email revealed demographic data collected during the registration process for the McAfee Strategic Security Summit, held in Sydney on Friday July 17, as well [...]

July 30, 2009 — Computerworld —
Details about a U.S. Secret Service safe house for the First Family — to be used in a national emergency — were found to have leaked out on a LimeWire file-sharing network recently, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were told this morning.
Also unearthed on LimeWire networks [...]

Well, 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 [...]

I had the pleasure of speaking with BankInfoSecurity last week on the show floor of RSA.  We chatted a bit about some of the challenges companies are experiencing, including security for Web 2.0, preventing data loss, and consolidation.  Warning: We also spent a few minutes talking up my company’s new appliance.
Take a listen to the podcast of [...]