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 [...]

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 [...]

Dan Kaplan of SC Magazine is reporting that the California State Senate has passed a law (SB-20) that requires companies with data breaches to report (to victims) that a breach has occurred, as well as detailed information describing exactly what TYPE of data was lost.
Read Dan’s article in SC Magazine here.

Back in October I wrote about how staff at Hospitals were using GoogleDocs to store/use patient records. Read here: http://ondlp.com/2008/10/10/risk-from-data-leakage/.
Well, our friends at Google just announced that documents belonging to a “few users” were “inadvertently” shared with others.  Read here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/09/google_docs_serious_security_breach/
“… It’s not a tumor, at all!”
- Dave