Data loss prevention

Data loss prevention, sometimes also known as data leak prevention, is an industry term for technologies and strategies designed to protect proprietary or sensitive information from a variety of threats both inside and outside your organization. This not only includes hackers, but also employees both past and present—whether their intentions are well-meaning or nefarious.

DLP policy

Policies are the core area of the DLP subsection, though others will appear if you have EMS plans. As such, there's a little dashboard here that will show you some reports about policies and policy matches:

DLP policy page

Because we've only just created our first label in the previous topic, we don't yet have any DLP matches. However, we'd like to match for internal documents under certain circumstances and take appropriate action.

For example, we want to identify when internally labeled documents are shared externally, or when they are sent in email to someone outside the organization. In these...