Symantec Data Loss Prevention for Tablet

The Symantec corporation announced in October, 2011 release of a new product under the name Symantec Data Loss Prevention for Tablet — the first complete solution for protection against date leak (DLP) with functions of monitoring and protection of the classified information on tablet computers. The application developed so far for tablet PCs Apple iPad will be able to solve one of the most pressing problems which the organizations dealing with security issues face. Symantec of DLP offers protection for a new class of the end devices so popular in corporate circles. This solution is intended for maintenance of productivity of the user and, at the same time, protects confidential data of the organization.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention for Tablet will provide monitoring and control of confidential data transmission, giving to users an opportunity to work with those devices which are required for them. The product is designed to help the organizations with support of simultaneous office and personal use of the tablet for the corporate and personal e-mail, web communications and general applications available to iPad. Protection will cover all device and information on it irrespective of the fact how the user is connected to network – through 3G or Wi-Fi. The release of the application with support of the Android operating system for tablets is also planned for the next year.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention for Tablet will become the latest addition to a series of solutions of Symantec for protection against date leaks and mobile device management (Mobile Management). This product will allow present users of technologies of Symantec of DLP to use effectively invested funds due to application of the same infrastructure of policy of management. Symantec also offers a full range of encryption systems – from complete enciphering of the hard drive and removable drives to solutions for servers and e-mail. Here recently announced product Symantec PGP Viewer for IOS which allows the staff of the organizations to read with the installed server of enciphering Symantec PGP Universal Server the ciphered messages on personal devices running the Apple iOS operating system, including iPad tablets and the iPhone smartphones enters. For example, upper managers can receive and browse the ciphered copies of financial statements, without worrying about confidentiality and security of this information.

The release of Symantec Data Loss Prevention for Tablet for iPad tablets is expected at the beginning of 2012. The price of a product will be calculated on number of tablets. Support of the tablet version of the Android operating system is going to be implemented in the near future. The utility of viewing the encoded data Symantec PGP Viewer for iOS represents the application for the Apple iOS platform which can be loaded from official Online store Apple App Store already now.