"It's a staggering problem for our industry, " says Joseph LaRocca, the NRF's vice president for loss prevention.
There are a number of data loss prevention systems and techniques that can control data from leaving your system.
And despite the obvious potential for opportunity, shoplifting has not increased with the installation of self-check out registers, says loss prevention experts.
Furthermore, 40 percent of chemicals firms surveyed say their investments are targeted at preventive, control-based risk management with a focus on loss prevention.
Everyone needs to accept that piracy cannot be stopped and loss prevention is not a concept that can be applied to the digital world.
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Data loss prevention systems are useful for monitoring end user activities and identifying suspicious patterns of behavior on the network, like accessing unusually large amounts of sensitive information.
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So while we implement data loss prevention measures to save ourselves in fear of a Wikileaks episode that never comes we just may find it keeps us from harming ourselves.
Dan Baker, who by day works a loss prevention expert for Sears Holdings in Dallas, has spent a chunk of his free time indulging his hobby of tracking weather facts across the U.S. since 1998.
Integrating the PGP key management platform into the Symantec Protection Center will further enhance the management of endpoint security, data loss prevention and gateway security products, which are also integrated with Symantec Protection Center, allowing customers to more seamlessly protect information.
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Dan Baker, who by day works a loss prevention expert for Sears Holdings (nasdaq: SHLD - news - people ) in Dallas, has spent a chunk of his free time indulging his hobby of tracking weather facts across the U.S. since 1998.
Since three out of the seven companies in which Steven has successfully invested are led by women CEOs, he was drawn to the WCC, where he found like-minded investors and champions for Aratana CEO Linda Rhodes and her revolutionary plans for pain relief and weight-loss prevention in companion animals.
Etymotic's hearing protection products were honored with a Design and Engineering Innovations Award in the Health and Wellness category at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show and the prestigious 2010 Safe-in-Sound Award for decades of innovation in hearing loss prevention from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Hearing Conservation Association.
Some are obvious: seat belts, home security systems, and mammograms are essentially about avoiding loss (prevention), while vacation homes, lottery tickets, and facelifts are about potential gains (promotion).
"The heavy losses caused by weather-related natural catastrophes in the U.S.A. showed that greater loss-prevention efforts are needed, " Munich Re board member Torsten Jeworrek said in a media release.
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The promotion focus on potential gain leads to speed, creativity, innovation, and embracing risk, while the prevention focus on avoiding loss leads to accuracy, careful deliberation, thoroughness, and a strong preference for the devil-you-know.
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The same holds true for prevention motivation when descriptions emphasize avoiding loss.
It is heartening that almost all of the new activism centers on children and obesity prevention, rather than on adults and weight loss.
The only disease where a beta carotene supplement may help is in the prevention or slowing of age-related macular degeneration and the associated vision loss.
In the United States, where two-thirds of the population is either overweight or obese, weight-loss surgeries have increased in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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