Organizations have increasingly been turning their security focus from system security to protecting sensitive and confidential data from compromise. To mitigate risk, enterprises have traditionally deployed a variety of data security controls, but many controls are either ineffective at stopping breaches or block some necessary functionality. The data security control that's targeted at preventing breaches of sensitive data is known as data loss prevention (DLP). This white paper examines what DLP solutions entail and how to select them, as well as the characteristics of the three main types of DLP products.
