Data protection prospective vendor checklist
A SANS whitepaper
McAfee | 30 October 2009, 11:50 | Data security
How should a management team go about evaluating today's encryption and emerging data leakage prevention (DLP) tools? What questions should they ask of the vendor provider(s)? How does a management team determine which solution being proposed will meet the most requirements for today—and in the future? How do they even set requirements without due diligence and discovery technologies to assist in locating and classifying what it is they need to protect? How do they weigh specific business requirements to product features? How do they gauge the stability of the vendor? How do they compare pricing models (per user, per server) and such additional factors as growth potential and integration with other vendor products to optimize their investments?
This checklist can be sent to prospective vendors, and can be used in combination with our interactive Data Protection Requirements Worksheets to calculate ratings and compare vendors.




