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Questions to Ask Yourself While Choosing a Data Loss Prevention Solution

1. CAN CONFIDENTIAL DATA BE PROTECTED WHEN NOT CONNECTED TO THE CORPORATE NETWORK?

General Recommendations: Laptops and external storage not connected to the corporate network should have the same level of protection as local users.

Zecurion: Zecurion Next Generation DLP offers numerous policies for corporate devices, ensuring, that all sensitive data will be protected within or outside of the company’s network.

2. CAN THE DLP SOLUTION PROTECT CLOUD-BASED DATA?

General Recommendations: The DLP solution should be able to protect confidential data, regardless of it being within a company infrastructure or network or “outside” – in cloud-based storage or services.

Zecurion: Zecurion DLP controls all popular Cloud services, including OneDrive, Office 365, DropBox, WeTransfer, Box.com, Google Drive, Google Docs, and other.

3. IS THE DLP SOLUTION EASY TO DEPLOY AND TO MANAGE?

General Recommendations: Incomplete products require multiple consoles and numerous complex configuration steps, which can lead to human error. Mature DLP solution has a unified interface, which makes operating and administration easier, decreasing the likelihood of human error.

Zecurion: Zecurion Next Generation DLP is a system intuitively understandable without documentation. Its web interface launches on any device. Solution has 20 policy templates for a quick start, interactive tables and diagrams, convenient dashboard, and preset visual report.
Zecurion DLP is cost-effective and provides fast integration with enterprise infrastructure. Most administration and monitoring tasks are available through REST API HTTP requests to enable security automation and integration with other tools and platforms in your IT infrastructure.
Users, Groups, and computer hostnames are synced from Active Directory to provide better integration with your IT infrastructure and enable Zecurion DLP to identify users by name in incidents and reports to simplify administration.
And what is even more important, all that is in a single console. Zecurion Next Generation DLP provides a web-based console for all modules and a customizable dashboard for centralized remote administration that is simple and streamlined.

4. HOW MANY COMMUNICATION CHANNELS CAN THIS DLP MONITOR?

General Recommendations: Your DLP solution should be aware of the destination, where sensitive data is about to be sent. And, despite a destination, data should be protected. Channels of communication differ, as well as the threats, associated with each of them.

Zecurion: Zecurion offers comprehensive control of all possible channels to minimize the risk of a data breach and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Zecurion Next Generation DLP prevents data leaks by more than 100 channels, including regular and web-based email, social networks, forums, blogs, instant messengers, USB drives, printers, and other devices. The solution supports inspection of over 500 file formats, including all office programs.
All intercepted data – files, messages, incidents, events, and more – will be stored in a database, so you have everything you need to generate detailed reports to conduct a forensic investigation or gather evidence for legal actions.

5. HOW DOES THIS SOLUTION ENSURE A LOW RATE OF FALSE-POSITIVES?

General Recommendations: Modern solutions not only scan for regular expressions but also use content analysis technologies.

Zecurion: Zecurion DLP uses more than 10 technologies including dictionaries, document fingerprints, regular expressions, machine learning, and probabilistic methods to categorize documents and identify sensitive information. The solution has flexible policies and rules. You can configure a policy for several – or all – data transfer channels and use a variety of content detection techniques and data conditions to foresee and prevent any possible data breach scenario.

6. WHAT TECHNICAL MEANS DO I NEED TO IMPLEMENT DLP?

General Recommendations: A well-designed DLP solution does not need extra technical equipment and should not take much time to deploy.

Zecurion: Zecurion Next Generation DLP can be easily deployed within 2 business days and needs only 1 physical or virtual server as a minimum requirement.

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