OpenDLP is a free and open source, agent-based, centrally-managed, massively distributable data loss prevention tool released under the GPL. Given appropriate Windows domain credentials, OpenDLP can simultaneously identify sensitive data at rest on hundreds or thousands of Microsoft Windows systems from a centralized web application. OpenDLP has two components: a web application and an agent.

Web Application

• Automatically deploy and start agents over Netbios/SMB
• When done, automatically stop, uninstall, and delete agents over Netbios/SMB
• Pause, resume, and forcefully uninstall agents in an entire scan or on individual systems
• Concurrently and securely receive results from hundreds or thousands of deployed agents over two-way-trusted SSL connection
• Create Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCREs) for finding sensitive data at rest
• Create reusable profiles for scans that include whitelisting or blacklisting directories and file extensions
• Review findings and identify false positives
• Export results as XML
• Written in Perl with MySQL backend

Agent

• Runs on Windows 2000 and later systems
• Written in C with no .NET Framework requirements
• Runs as a Windows Service at low priority so users do not see or feel it
• Resumes automatically upon system reboot with no user interaction
• Securely transmit results to web application at user-defined intervals over two-way-trusted SSL connection
• Uses PCREs to identify sensitive data inside files
• Performs additional checks on potential credit card numbers to reduce false positives

You can download OpenDLP v0.1 here:

OpenDLP-0.1.tar.bz2

Or read more here.

Data security giant McAfee has bought a young Tel Aviv startup, Onigma, for somewhere between $15 million to $25 million cash, surmise hi-tech circles.

McAfee will be integrating the Onigma technology in its enterprise security solution, and will be recruiting dozens more Israeli developers for the startup, which will become a local R&D center.

Onigma was founded in December 2004 by Amir Sadeh, Ishay Green and Liad Agmon, three “graduates” of the technology division of the Israeli army intelligence forces. The company is run by Jim Penosky, who hailed from the OnDemand Partners consultancy.

The startup was devoted to a new area in data security: DLP, or Data Leakage Prevention from an enterprise servers.

Within days, the Onigma technology will be available via all McAfee outlets worldwide.

The technology enables the company to monitor all its workers and ensure they do not send confidential information beyond the enterprise boundaries, whether via Internet or external memory storage devices.

Among the company’s investors are the founders of Excellence-Nessuah, Gil Deutsch and Roni Biran.

Via e-mail from Raphael Fogel