The market for DLP technology includes offerings that provide visibility into data usage and movement across an organization. It also involves dynamic enforcement of security policies based on content and context for data in use, data in motion and data at rest. DLP technology seeks to address data-related threats, including the risks of inadvertent or accidental data loss and the exposure of sensitive data, using monitoring, alerting, warning, blocking, quarantining and other remediation features.
Employee productivity monitoring software uses automated data collection, analytics as well as logs from applications, calendars, etc. to report on employees’ activities, time spent, work locations and work patterns. It can provide insights into when employees are working and what work is being done. Insights thus generated from employee productivity monitoring can support efforts to improve organizational effectiveness, employee experience, worker well-being and working-time compliance. This software also creates detailed reports on the collected data that helps employees manage their workload for optimum results and managers to measure employee performance.
Gartner defines insider risk management as a methodology that includes the tools and capabilities to measure, detect and contain undesirable behavior of trusted accounts in the organization. It includes solutions that monitor the behavior of employees, service partners and key suppliers working inside the organization. These tools then evaluate whether behavior falls within the expectations of the role and corporate risk tolerance. For CISOs and cybersecurity leaders, insider risk management refers to the use of technical solutions to solve a fundamentally human problem. Managing insider risks requires collaboration among many cross-functional partners. Components of an insider risk management methodology are policies, guidelines and investigative work that fall outside the bounds of a typical cybersecurity organization. For our purposes, the insider risk management market consists of tools and solutions that monitor the behavior of employees, service partners and key suppliers working inside the organization. It evaluates whether behavior falls within the expectations of the role and corporate risk tolerance.