Gartner Market Guide For DLP - Why Context Is King
DTEX, Friday, November 10,2023
With insider risk rising and becoming increasingly expensive, it's becoming more incumbent on companies to figure out how they want to tackle it. Historically, one approach has been to use Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technologies.
As far as cybersecurity tools go, DLP is mature, but its limitations are becoming more evident. According to Gartner, 'traditional approaches to DLP rely heavily on content inspection capabilities that are resource-intensive and often lead to performance issues with high numbers of false positives.'
DLP systems can also be overly restrictive, primarily because organizations want to make sure they capture any possible data leakage. This can frustrate non-malicious employees who are trying to do their jobs by accessing and sharing data for legitimate business purposes. DLP can also be easy to outsmart by both malicious and non-malicious insiders. Even an employee with limited tech skills can use an ordinary cell phone to capture sensitive data. They're also reactive, spotting problems only after an incident has occurred.