Tiversa Key Concepts
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The Extended Enterprise
Current safeguards and security measures do not protect organizations from file disclosures outside of their corporate networks from individuals and organizations entrusted with their sensitive information. This universe is your Extended Enterprise. Tiversa has found that over 60% of P2P file disclosures come from contractors, suppliers, attorneys, accountants, employees working from home, and even customers of major corporations and government agencies. | More
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Network Native™
Tiversa’s systems operate directly as part of P2P networks and do not require you to add hardware or software to your network. Our solution is the industry's first of its kind and allows you to seamlessly integrate our service into your existing incident response and monitoring workflows with no time consuming and expensive installation work.
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Information Concentrator™
Throughout our extensive P2P research, Tiversa continues to see individuals that harvest a large number of files containing confidential and sensitive data. Tiversa calls these individuals Information Concentrators™ and in most cases, they are suspicious in nature. To learn more about the risks they pose to your organization, contact us. |
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Resources Register to access today!
USPTO - Filesharing Programs and “Technological Features to Induce
Users to Share” | Report conducted by United States Patent and Trademark office with Tiversa contribution that discusses how P2P File Sharing Programs can put individuals' information at risk
Inadvertent Disclosure | Information Leaks in the Extended Enterprise Comprehensive study that Tiversa performed with Dartmouth’s Center for Digital Strategies examining P2P information disclosures and searches across the Top 30 U.S. Banking Industry
Security Risks of Peer-to-Peer File
Sharing Networks | Initial overview performed by Tiversa with Dartmouth’s Center for Digital Strategies illustrating the risks facing corporations and individuals from peer-to-peer file sharing networks
Testimony of Tiversa’s CEO, Robert Boback, to US House Committee
on Oversight and Reform – July 24, 2007 | Tiversa’s expert testimony on the magnitude and impact of inadvertent P2P file sharing and what consumers, corporations, and government agencies can do.
FAQs – Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Risk | Written by Tiversa, this document addresses typical Frequently Asked Questions
Supporting a Tiversa Program:
Customer Perspective | This paper addresses key questions and concerns that new customers often have regarding the level of support needed to successfully run an ongoing Tiversa Program.
Tiversa Executive Summary | One page overview of Tiversa and its services
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Useful Links
Privacy Rights Clearing House
P2P File Sharing Primer
National Cyber Alert System
Cyber Security Tip ST05-007
Risks of File-Sharing Technology
SANS TOP 20 Internet Vulnerabilities 2007
Most Popular Software (Download.com)
CERT'S Podcasts:
Inadvertent Data Disclosure on
Peer-to-Peer Networks
Show Notes
FAQ
We started a P2P lab on a dedicated laptop at my company to search for disclosed files. How is what you do different than what we are already doing? Understand that
when searching the P2P from one PC or multiple computers, you have a limited view of the entire network. Tiversa’s systems monitor
over 1.5 billion searches a day and over 450 million P2P nodes. Our solution enables us
to view the entire network and thus provide real-time, actionable information regarding sensitive file disclosures related to your organization.
Doesn't my firewall protect me against this threat? No. P2P clients, in many cases, are designed to thwart firewalls. We continue to find that current industry safeguards are not effective against P2P file sharing.
We have a policy against P2P. Why would this be a problem for us? As good as policy is, users will continue to use the path of least resistance. This may mean working from home or accessing corporate files from a non-work PC. Despite the safeguards taken at the corporate perimeter, they simply are not in place outside of it, which we continue to find. This puts your organization's sensitive and confidential data at risk.
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How do we implement Tiversa's technology? Is there hardware to configure and software to install? Tiversa's solution is P2P Network Native™ requiring no hardware or software installation.
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I use a DLP solution currently. Wouldn't that catch any leak leaving my perimeter? One thing to note regarding P2P is that in many cases it's the Extended Enterprise (suppliers, contractors, remote employees, partners and agents) that are disclosing files outside the corporate network, despite the hardware, procedures and policies in place. Imagine a key supplier or service provider inadvertently sharing their entire hard drive (that contains sensitive corporate data) because they don't have the same security measures that your organization may have in place. We've identified this as a major privacy and security concern.
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