DLP is about enhancing how you safeguard your sensitive business data from a potential data breach. It’s more than just a "tooling" conversation; it’s a strategic programme of work that marries business engagement at all levels,
together with policy expertise, structured processes, knowledgeable personnel and reliable technology. Too often organisations think that DLP is an IT project; we know that this is not the case.
What are the
perceived challenges?
DLP is often considered challenging because of the careful balance required between security, usability and effectiveness. In fact, over 35% of first generation DLP deployments fail (source: Gartner) providing the discipline with a poor reputation and an association with “opening a can of worms”.
Here are some reasons why:
DLP is often considered challenging because of the careful balance required between security, usability and effectiveness. In fact, over 35% of first generation DLP deployments fail (source: Gartner) providing the discipline with a poor reputation and an association with “opening a can of worms”.
Here are some reasons why:
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High False Positives/False Negatives:
Eroding trust in the system and increasing administrative workload.
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Complex Policy Management:
Misconfigured polices can either block business critical tasks or fail to detect real threats.
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User Resistance & Workarounds:
Intrusive DLP may undermine its own effectiveness as employees look for ways to bypass controls.
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Limited Context Awareness:
The lack of data-type context may prevent the ability to distinguish between malicious and benign actions.
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Performance & Scalability Issues:
Increasing data volumes may adversely impact real time performance.
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Inadequate Coverage Across Platforms:
Often limited coverage across cloud apps, mobile devices & remote endpoints creates hybrid-working blindspots.
However, it doesn't have to be. We understand the critical success factors and have created a programme based on successful outcomes that we affectionately refer to as "DLP360".
Making DLP simple
It's all about policy
DLP360 starts with a conversation about how we can unify your on-premises and cloud data environments, using a single tooling framework, that can be managed under a single intuitive interface. Built on a precise data-centric policy structure, DLP360 enhances business efficiency, cuts operational costs and consolidates policies into a cohesive system, significantly reducing false positives/negatives (the root cause of the majority of Gen 1 DLP implementation failures).
DLP360 consists of multiple pick'n'mix components dependant on where you are currently along your journey. A typical programme is shown below:
Experience shows that there are only three main outcomes organisations focus on:
- No adverse impact to users
- No "headache" for IT to manage
- No inadvertent data loss
Watch our video for an overview of DLP360:
How we help
We know what successful DLP looks like
The concept of DLP360 is vendor-agnostic. It represents a journey-based business strategy that helps you achieve programmatic success.
Drawing from extensive experience, we start by focusing on the most common blind spot that is “not knowing what you don’t know”. This data-discovery-first approach provides stakeholders with powerful insights enabling them to make more accurate, impactful decisions.
Each organisation has their own starting point for the simple reason that you know what is most important to you. We are not here to mark your work. Instead we're here to help you re-frame, providing you with impartial advice and guidance to accelerate you towards your intended outcomes.
Give us a call so we can understand where you are currently with DLP; who knows, we might be able to help!
The concept of DLP360 is vendor-agnostic. It represents a journey-based business strategy that helps you achieve programmatic success.
Drawing from extensive experience, we start by focusing on the most common blind spot that is “not knowing what you don’t know”. This data-discovery-first approach provides stakeholders with powerful insights enabling them to make more accurate, impactful decisions.
Each organisation has their own starting point for the simple reason that you know what is most important to you. We are not here to mark your work. Instead we're here to help you re-frame, providing you with impartial advice and guidance to accelerate you towards your intended outcomes.
Give us a call so we can understand where you are currently with DLP; who knows, we might be able to help!
The relationship between
DLP, Messaging Security & Compliance, & Policy Management
The focus of DLP is to control the sensitive data that leaves your organisation, while Messaging Security & Compliance extends that control to the communication channels themselves.
Where Messaging Security analyses identity, message context, and delivery mechanisms to protect communications in real time, DLP uses content and classification rules to govern how data is shared after access has been granted.
Messaging Security enforces how communications occur, while DLP enforces how data is used and protected after the fact.
Here’s what’s really important: both are only as successful as the policy framework underpinning them.
Typically, Messaging Security is owned by your Compliance or IT Security Team, and DLP by your Information Protection Team—but both are part of the same picture.
We bring DLP (on-premises and cloud) and Messaging Security under a single policy framework providing a common language and unified foundation—eliminating operational silos.
We're here to provide you with help, support and add value at every stage within this process.
One framework for everything. Simple.
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