Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Without Data Discovery

Essert delivers data loss prevention (DLP) without any need for data discovery and delivers 10x saving in your rollout

What is Data Loss Prevention and Why is It Important?

What is Data Loss Prevention?

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a comprehensive set of tools and processes designed to detect and prevent sensitive data from being lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users. As a critical component of data security, DLP helps organizations safeguard their sensitive data against various threats, including data breaches, insider threats, and cyberattacks. By implementing DLP, organizations can classify, monitor, and control sensitive data in multiple forms, such as emails, files, and network traffic, ensuring robust protection against data loss.

Why is DLP Important?

DLP is crucial for organizations that handle sensitive data, such as financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and government agencies. Here are some key reasons why DLP is essential:

Protecting sensitive data: DLP helps organizations protect their sensitive data from unauthorized access, theft, or loss, ensuring data security.
Compliance: DLP assists organizations in complying with regulatory requirements, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS, by enforcing data protection policies.
Preventing data breaches: DLP helps organizations prevent data breaches, which can lead to significant financial losses and reputational damage.
Protecting intellectual property: DLP safeguards intellectual property, such as trade secrets and proprietary data, from being exposed or stolen.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Without Data Discovery

Essert delivers data loss prevention (DLP) without any need for data discovery and delivers 10x saving in your rollout

Protects sensitive data from unauthorized access
Prevents data leaks and ensures compliance with regulations
Reduces the risk of insider threats

A data breach can have significant financial and reputational consequences for organizations, leading to loss of customer trust, regulatory infractions, and substantial costs.

Simplifies the implementation of security policies

Data encryption is a key method to protect sensitive data at rest, ensuring it remains safeguarded against potential breaches.

Essert is a simple and easy to deploy data loss prevention (DLP) solution

Deploy in days, not months. Our software helps you to be ready in preventing data breaches in days not months.

Are you ready to manage 9 components with older DLP solutions? Our software is easy and simple to deploy and only one component to manage.

Our software helps you deploy role-based access policies for sensitive data sharing, in compliance with sharing of privacy data within and outside the enterprise.

Deploy DLP in days, not months and save money

Automated, easy, and scalable deployment within days of completing your PoC

Your business is changing faster, and why should you keep or deploy a 20-year-old data loss prevention technology? Older DLP solutions take months to deploy and require a lot of operational management. Older DLP solutions have 8-9 components and over 10 manual steps to install and configure a system. Essert makes your data loss prevention (DLP) deployment as easy as 1-2-3. Step 1 is to set-up a PoC with 20 users, either on-prem or in the cloud – takes less than 2 days. Step 2 is to review the results of the PoC vs. your existing system. Step 3 is to flip the switch for all your users – take a few more days.

In addition to DLP, implementing data leakage prevention practices ensures secure deployment by detecting and preventing unauthorized data breaches and exfiltration.

How DLP Works

DLP solutions employ various techniques to detect and prevent sensitive data from being lost or misused. These techniques include:

Data classification: DLP solutions classify sensitive data based on its type, sensitivity, and importance, ensuring appropriate handling.
Data monitoring: DLP solutions monitor sensitive data in real-time, detecting any unauthorized access or attempts to transfer or share the data.
Data control: DLP solutions enforce policies and rules to control sensitive data, preventing unauthorized access or transfer.
Reporting and analytics: DLP solutions provide robust reporting and analytics capabilities, helping organizations identify and respond to potential security threats effectively.

Auto classification of sensitivity without any data discovery

Real-time sensitivity classification beyond templated classes is required for today’s business

A mid-size business sends an equivalent of 100 million pages of documents each month. This is likely to increase exponentially as collaboration in the cloud increases drastically with either sanctioned or unsanctioned apps. Nearly 20% of these shared documents contain sensitive information, half of which is unstructured data. Older DLP solutions use distinct and different data discovery and classification engines. At scale, this implies substantial manual processing of incidents and exceptions. This results in serious operational cost escalation. Essert algorithms auto-identify and auto-classify either structured or unstructured data at scale. DLP solutions detect sensitive data using methods like regular expression patterns, data fingerprinting, and network traffic analysis to ensure compliance and protection against unauthorized access. The result is savings that could be diverted to your starving security programs.

Automate and apply identity and role based policy creation and management

A unique identity and role-based access control for each sensitive type and class of data elements

Your business runs on collaboration and integrated work processes. More and more sensitive data is sharing both inside and outside your business. A simple policy based on sensitive data type combined with complex remediation implies higher costs to scale your data loss prevention (DLP) deployment. Essert delivers the policy creation mechanism that you need. It automates policy creation and management based on user roles, user groups, and category of sensitivity. Additionally, this covers collaboration within and outside your business. For example, you may modify an auto-generated policy that prevents the finance group from sharing sensitive banking information with the manufacturing group. A DLP solution also plays a critical role in facilitating compliance audits by providing the necessary reporting capabilities and maintaining proper documentation and compliance procedures.

Furthermore, the reporting capabilities of DLP solutions equip organizations with the necessary tools to conduct compliance audits, ensuring that they meet legal requirements and can effectively manage personally identifiable information (PII).

Real-time role-based Governance & Regulatory Compliance at scale

Governance, compliance, privacy based on user roles is the new normal for your business and you are compelled to deliver this at scale

Your business likely deployed an ability to manage compliance and data governance. Your data loss prevention (DLP) implementation may provide broad regulatory compliance. Protecting personally identifiable information (PII), such as email addresses and Social Security numbers, is crucial within this governance framework. However, they lack in role-based governance. Role-based governance needs to be real-time and automated. Because 20% of newly created data is confidential and requires real-time role-based governance. Additionally, automation is the solution for scalability across your business. Essert delivers role-based governance and regulatory compliance at scale.

On-prem or in the cloud – sanctioned apps or shadow IT sensitive data everywhere

Your data, apps, users, and all your assets are spread wide and you need to apply the same policies consistently and centrally

Your business invests a lot of time to identify how data is shared within and outside the company. It is critical to deploy this across all the services you offer. Preventing data leaks in both on-premise and cloud environments is essential to safeguard sensitive information and mitigate risks. You need to deliver a consistent experience that additionally tackles shadow IT. Delivering unified data protection reduces your security overhead and ensures consistent application of relevant policy. Essert provides a centralized and scalable mechanism to protect your sensitive and highly sensitive data either on-premise or in your cloud environments.

Malicious data exfiltration is an advanced persistent threat

Compromised privileged users, malicious insiders, trojans and more make exfiltration from your network is a serious threat to your highly sensitive data

Compromised users or malicious insiders are a significant threat to your enterprise’s highly sensitive data. Additionally, nation-state actors and hackers are known to use advanced persistent threat mechanisms to stay undetected in your network for a long period of time before they initiate data exfiltration of your highly sensitive data. Preventing a data leak is crucial due to these advanced threats, as it can expose sensitive information to untrustworthy environments. As your users continue to sanctioned or unsanctioned cloud-based apps this type of data exfiltration become easier and more prevalent. Essert provides the protection needed to prevent such malicious exfiltration.

Implementing DLP

Implementing DLP requires a comprehensive approach that involves the following steps:

Identifying sensitive data: Organizations must identify their sensitive data and classify it based on its type, sensitivity, and importance.
Assessing risks: Organizations must assess the risks associated with their sensitive data and identify potential security threats.
Selecting a DLP solution: Organizations must select a DLP solution that meets their security requirements and regulatory compliance needs.
Implementing the DLP solution: Organizations must implement the DLP solution, configuring it to meet their specific security requirements.
Monitoring and maintaining the DLP solution: Organizations must continuously monitor and maintain the DLP solution, ensuring its effectiveness in detecting and preventing sensitive data from being lost or misused.

By following these steps, organizations can effectively implement a DLP solution that protects their sensitive data and meets their compliance and auditing requirements.