
<p>It becomes
increasingly difficult and challenging to keep corporate confidential and
sensitive information’s safe as more employees share files and data outside the
corporate network, use mobile devices to
access corporate data, storing data on their personal cloud storage and
devices. With data loss prevention tools, such as Office 365 DLP an end user
cannot send sensitive information to an email address outside of your company
domain, or to a public cloud storage service such as Dropbox or Google Drive.
Any malicious or accidental attempt to send sensitive information out of your
network will be blocked and logged.</p>



<p>Regulatory
compliance and modern cyber threats are key drivers for enterprises to invest
in data protection products. Beyond simply securing their data, organizations
must comply with government and industry regulations designed to ensure
information privacy. Organizations must focus on how to identify, locate, and
control sensitive data. Most organizations don’t know where their sensitive
data resides in the network or where it crosses network boundaries. This
blindness can lead to the unauthorized disclosure of confidential data, whether
intentional or inadvertent.</p>



<p>Data Loss
Prevention (DLP) technologies help you to Discover, Monitor and Protect
sensitive data leaving corporate boundaries. Many DLP products can identify
sensitive data like Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and financial data
(Credit card number etc.) using built-in ready to use templates and these DLP
products can let you define your own sensitive definitions and set of conditions
/ rules to meet the need of every business.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Types
of DLP technologies </strong></h2>



<p><strong>Data in Use:</strong>  ;DLP technologies secures data in use, defined
as data that is being actively processed by an application or an endpoint.</p>



<p><strong>Data in Transit:</strong> data is in transit across a network,
DLP technologies are needed to make sure it is not routed outside the
organization or too insecure storage
areas.</p>



<p><strong>Data at Rest:</strong> DLP technologies protect data
residing in a variety of storage mediums, including the cloud. DLP can place
controls to make sure that only authorized users are accessing the data and to
track their access in case it is leaked
or stolen</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>How
DLP Technologies Analyse Data: </strong></h2>



<p>Most old DLP
technologies discover and inspect data using Keywords and Regular Expressions
and Hashing. Regular expressions were good for detecting well-structured
data, but keyword lists could be difficult to maintain, and fingerprint-based methods
could miss confidential information if it is reformatted or rephrased.</p>



<p>Current DLP systems experience problems in detecting some type of data,
due to this a new type of DLP algorithms have merged that
enables organisations to protect and detect data using intelligent self-learning
software that learns to detect new confidential and proprietary data and can
protect the large flow of diverse
information quickly. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Popular Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Software’s</strong></h2>



<p><strong>Office 365 – Data Loss
Prevention</strong></p>



<p>One of the most popular
products, DLP is a feature of Office 365,
and it works similarly to other DLP tools
in that a set of business rules to identify and protect sensitive information
leaving the organisation. ; You can start
from built-in templates to define
policies within Office 365 that will govern content and data, and even get
notified using the smart tip and can send
an email alert to compliance officer when
someone has violated the business rules you’ve set. </p>



<p><strong>Symantec
Data Loss Prevention</strong></p>



<p>Symantec Data
Loss Prevention product helps you monitor and protect valuable business
information and assets. With this scalable software suite, you can see where
data is stored throughout your business, taking into account cloud, mobile, and
multiple endpoints. ;</p>



<p><strong>McAfee
Total Protection </strong></p>



<p>McAfee DLP is
saleable and customisable. DLP solution is a step
further than most by exploring ways that data may have been leaked in the
absence of internal compliance rules and regulations. That’s handy for firms
that may not have concrete corporate rules in place.</p>



<p><em>References :</em></p>


<p>https://www.researchgate.net/</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.cisco.com/">www.cisco.com</a>/</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/">www.microsoft.com</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.techradar.com/">www.techradar.com</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.symantic.com/">www.symantec.com</a> </em></p>
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