What a company should know to differentiate a strongly proactive system from a solution with irritating limitations.

For many companies, a DLP system is an essential solution when it comes to preventing data leaks and protecting against other internal threats. But the customer's experience of using DLP is always pleasant. Some deserved and unfair criticism of DLP systems, without natural limitations of the type of system, such as:

1. Insufficient functions to solve a task

2. DLP is difficult to implement, it “consumes” many resources

3. Choose frequent false alarms

4. The solution seems excessively sophisticated, there is no way to work with it

The DLP system does not work as an antivirus (or plug-and-play). These pre-configurations are sufficient to protect against data breaches, monitor and block the transfer of data containing elements considered by predefined policies. Of course, this will guarantee the security of the data, but to increase these policies, we must review them, as well as the business processes. If a client does not need to do this information, the company will benefit from only 10-20% of all the resources that the DLP system offers.

Another problem arises when there is no time to work with a solution, or the rotation of specialists in information security is so high that a new person simply does not have enough time to learn.

Lack of training for information security managers can cause your DLP system to become an unbalanced burden, along with inevitable disappointment with DLP software like everything else. For companies that do not have an information security department, there is an alternative to outsourcing these tasks.