Symantec Launches Data Insight for Storage Management

Symantec Data Insight is expected to find its way into the company's storage management products in the coming months. Infostor says that Data Insight combs through unstructured data on shared file systems to identify important business data and trace ownership.

"Symantec Data Insight combs through unstructured data on shared file systems to identify important business data and trace ownership to individuals within an organization in order to enforce corporate policies and regulatory compliance. The software also monitors and audits data usage.

"Data Insight will first be available as part of Symantec's Data Loss Prevention (DLP), which discovers, monitors, and protects confidential data across endpoint, network and storage systems.

"Customers can use the information provided by Data Insight to make rules-based ownership inferences and alter access to stored data in order to prevent data breaches, according to Robert Hamilton, Symantec's senior product marketing manager for DLP."