Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

  • Preventing the loss of confidential, sensitive information.

  • DLP Methods

    • Manual

    • On Prem Appliance

    • Cloud Services

    • Host Agents

  • Examples: Digital Guardian, Office 365, McAffee, Symantec, Druva, Cisco

  • DLP Rules:

    • Files names

    • File types

    • File content (pattern matching)

  • Actions:

    • Block

    • Notify

    • Quarantine

    • Tombstone – Replacement file instead of the original file

  • DLP Discovery and Classification

    • File tags

    • Dictionary

    • Policy templates

    • EDM (Exact Data Matching)

    • Document matching

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