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How can you identify and locate your organization's most sensitive data? Many vendors are offering data loss prevention (DLP) tools and other discovery tools, and many of them offer a lot of promise. But they aren't cheap or trivial to deploy. Does your data discovery process have to wait until you get the time and budget to deploy DLP? Thankfully, no. It's possible to get a jump-start on discovering sensitive data using freely available and open source tools -- provided that you understand what your company needs to identify and protect. The tools range in functionality from simple searching of files on desktops and laptops to spidering and searching Website content.

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Emerging as the sentinels of this modern scourge are companies like WatchGuard, the Seattle-based manufacturer of appliances dedicated to inoculating computer networks from the spread of viruses. The company in November unveiled three new models in its XCS series of 1U appliances to provide small and midsize businesses with always-on protection from spam, viruses, spyware, phishing and other threats borne by e-mail.

The decade-old software provider, based in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 19 announced Version 4 of its EnCase eDiscovery platform. EnCase provides legal and IT teams with an integrated software package that includes all the necessary functions for in-house electronic discovery, such as legal hold, precollection analytics, and identification, preservation and collection. The latest news is that Guidance, in its Version 4, has added a couple of other important features: processing, analysis and early case assessment, and first-pass review.