If your organization operates with poor network security, you may have network vulnerabilities that can expose your network to cyberattacks and malicious actors.
Cyberattacks can cost your organization hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair your network following an attack. For this reason, reliable network security has become a greater priority now than ever before.
Fortunately, there are hundreds of network security services and solutions on the market to prevent cyberattacks. However, having this many solutions makes it challenging to determine which ones might be the best fit for your organization.
Coeo understands how important reliable network security is to the success of an organization and has delivered thousands of network security solutions to organizations to help improve security and avoid cyberattacks.
By the end of this article, you will understand what Data Loss Prevention is, its features, and whether it is an appropriate solution for your organization.
What is Data Loss Prevention?
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a solution that incorporates security processes and technologies to monitor and control sensitive data to prevent malicious actors from entering your network and stealing data.
DLP solutions use various software tools and data privacy practices to prevent unauthorized users from accessing data in your network.
DLP accomplishes this by identifying different data content types and applying automated security policies based on the sensitivity of that content. This ensures that sensitive data is hidden from unauthorized users and protected by a firewall.
A DLP solution works very well in a remote or hybrid work environment that has employees where employees regularly work from various locations.
When employees who are working remotely connect to the business network from their location, it can be difficult to secure the network with employees accessing the network from so many locations.
DLP helps secure data in the network based on classifications no matter where the data resides for improved security in a remote work environment.
If you would like to speak with our team to learn more about DLP or network security or ask any questions you may have you can schedule an appointment.
The features of Data Loss Prevention
Many features of Data Loss Prevention can benefit your organization’s network security. These features include:
Data classification
One of the main features of Data Loss Prevention is data classification. DLP solutions facilitate data and classify the data based on a set of characteristics that your organization sets.
DLP solutions can analyze data content, context, and usage patterns to classify data based on confidentiality, sensitivity, and business impact to secure it based on these classifications.
Of course, more sensitive data like contracts and business agreements will have higher security than other data in the network.
Policy enforcement
Once a DLP solution classifies the data within your network, it can enforce policy-based security based on data classification.
DLP solutions enforce data protection policies, access controls, and encryption requirements to regulate the transfer, storage, and sharing of data within the network.
DLP solutions use this policy enforcement process to constantly monitor data flows, transactions, and communications to detect any violations or unauthorized access attempts.
Network monitoring and analytics
DLP solutions monitor your network and analyze user activities, application behaviors, and network traffic across all remote locations to ensure data is secure from any location inside the network.
The solution provides analytics on data moving within the network and secures data based on classification and policy enforcement.
Incident detection and response
Another feature of Data Loss Prevention is that it detects data breaches, policy violations, and unauthorized users inside the network. This incident detection capability is available through the real-time monitoring capabilities of DLP.
When a threat or data breach is discovered in your network, your DLP solution contains the threat to avoid any damage being done to your network.
Once identified, the solution goes through an investigation process where it provides forensic analysis to discover what the threat is and how it penetrated the network. At the conclusion of this process, DLP will provide a report on the threat and mitigate it.
After eliminating the network threat from the infrastructure, the solution will evaluate the incident and adjust its security policy based on the findings in the report to avoid this incident from happening again.
Is Data Loss Prevention a good fit for your organization?
Now you understand what Data Loss Prevention is and the features of the solution. However, it is also important to understand how to evaluate the technology to determine whether it is the right solution for your organization.
If your organization has poor network security and is looking to better secure data inside your network or for data that is being transmitted through the cloud or from other users, a DLP solution may be the right fit for your organization.
If you are looking for policy-based network security that ensures your data will be well protected, a DLP solution may also be the right fit for your organization.
Finally, if your organization is looking for a security solution that provides incident detection and response capabilities to ensure threats are discovered and mitigated from your network, a DLP solution may be the right fit for your organization.
On the other hand, Data Loss Prevention typically focuses more on securing data. If your organization needs a security solution that secures your entire network infrastructure, a DLP solution may not be robust enough to meet your organization’s needs.
Additionally, if your organization has reliable network security that ensures your infrastructure is safe and secure, a DLP solution may still be an excellent complement to provide an extra layer of protection for data being stored, sent, or received in your network.
Determining if Data Loss Prevention is the right solution for your organization
Now you understand what Data Loss Prevention is, its features, and whether it is an excellent solution for your organization. This will help you determine whether your organization should invest in this technology.
Organizations can’t operate effectively when using a poor-performing network security model that creates network vulnerabilities. Network vulnerabilities often result in cyberattacks that can cost organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair their network.
A Data Loss Prevention solution will help improve your organization’s network security and help you avoid cyberattacks and the consequences that result from them.
Coeo understands how important reliable network security is to an organization and has delivered thousands of network security solutions to organizations to improve their security and help them avoid cyberattacks.
We want you to understand what DLP is so you can determine whether it is a good solution for your organization.
If you would like to speak with our team to learn more about DLP or network security or ask any questions you may have you can schedule an appointment.
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