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In a recent survey sponsored by Reconnex Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based vendor of data loss protection appliances, 85% of the CIOs questioned said they did a good job of identifying intellectual property, and 74% said they were doing a good job of securing all their information which was classified as intellectual property. While these survey results are promising, the actual ability of these CIOs to protect their classified information is not as good as they think. Most of them are still using internal, manual monitoring techniques to try and protect their data. The problem with these techniques is that as the company expands, they have to continually hire more people to keep up with the increasing volume of confidential information. They also don’t have the manpower to search all the possible sources of information leaks, often having to settle on monitoring only a few of the most obvious ones. The best way for a company to truly be protected from information loss is to implement a comprehensive automated monitoring system that has the ability to scale with the company as it grows.