It looks like Silicon Valley VC giant Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Buyers has invested $16 million in a Utah company that has taken a different approach to protecting corporate data. Never heard of Kleiner Perkins? Well they have a long list of successful investments, including Amazon.com, AOL.com, Google.com, VeriSign, Macromedia, Symantec, EA, should I go on?

Oakley Networks provides “leakage detection” tools to prevent “insider threats.” It’s SureView software provides

real-time alerts of harmful data leakage from desktop applications that are vulnerable, such as: Email, WebMail, Instant Messaging, Web Browsers, MS Office, Clipboard, File System, USB Storage, CD, DVD, Printing and Encryption (SSL, PGP, S/MIME).

Did they miss anything? Oh yes, cameraphones, text messaging, BlackBerries and such. Of course, they probably have access to the BlackBerry network as well. Pretty amazing stuff this is.

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