GBS, a BULPROS company based in Germany, has been named a leader in data leakage prevention (DLP) for the third time in a row. GBS, a leading vendor of solutions and services in the fields of messaging security and workflow, managed to position itself in the leader quadrant of the ISG study „Cyber Security Solutions & Services 2019/2020“. This recognition confirms the success from 2017, when GBS climbed up to a “Leader” position in the magic quadrant and managed to retain this position over the next two years.
In the current ISG study, which evaluates the 80 most important security providers of DLP solutions on the German market, GBS convinced the jury with its highly attractive portfolio and with the new Multi-Tenant Edition of the email management solution iQ.Suite DLP Advanced, which is available for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange and IBM Domino Verse.
The present study states: “GBS has expanded its range of services compared to the previous year and now also supports the cost-effective central administration of several clients”. “This new Multi-Tenant Edition is the result of our development in the last year. Thanks to its new multi-tenant capability, iQ.Suite DLP Advanced enables corporations and their affiliated subsidiaries as well as companies with a large-scale distributed email infrastructure to centrally and cost-effectively manage their emails”, informs Robert Becker, Marketing Manager at GBS Europa GmbH.
ISG describes iQ.Suite DLP Advanced as a sophisticated DLP solution that is able to identify sensitive information in emails and attachments and thus prevents them from being sent accidentally or intentionally. Robert Becker explains: “The protection of customer data and business-critical information is a real challenge for companies. While the incoming communication is usually well secured by spam and virus protection, the outgoing communication should not be neglected under any circumstances. After all, one can send an email with sensitive information to the wrong recipient by mistake in no time, not to mention corporate data that has been intentionally sent due to various reasons. GBS has therefore specialised in the control of information outflows”.
The special feature of the GBS solution is the four-eyes principle review: All outgoing emails are analyzed in real time, suspicious emails are automatically identified by the software and their transmission is stopped. Afterwards these emails undergo a four-eyes review by a predefined person such as the respective supervisor or the company’s data protection officer. After they have been checked, the emails are finally either released or blocked. iQ.Suite DLP Advanced thereby also detects behavior anomalies in the email flow. “For this purpose, information such as the number and size of emails sent during a definite time period is collected and then compared with the current user behavior. This allows detecting a disproportionate increase in email volume or sending of large amounts of data, which could indicate the leakage of confidential data,” adds Robert Becker.

In addition, the ISG study expressly praises GBS for the compliance with the legal requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that entered into force in May 2018: “GBS meets the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation by providing detailed notifications of security incidents for the timely reporting of data breaches.” In addition, the ISG analysts emphasize the fact that the solution can adapt quickly and flexibly to customer-specific requirements: “Using the granular functionalities and rules“
The strengths of iQ.Suite DLP Advanced at a glance:
• Identification of sensitive information in emails and attachments
• Release of suspicious emails after a four-eyes principle review by the supervisor or the data protection officer
• Cost-effective and central management of multiple tenants with the iQ.Suite Multi-Tenant Edition, e.g. for corporations with affiliated subsidiaries or companies with a large-scale distributed email infrastructure
• Compliance with the GDPR through detailed reporting on security incidents, enabling companies to report data protection violations in a timely manner.
• Protection of collaboration environments and applications
• Quick and flexible implementation of customer-specific DLP scenarios through granular functionalities and policies

More information about iQ.Suite DLP Advanced is available at https://www.gbs.com/en/dlp-advanced