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