Keep sensitive data safe in the cloud

A spreadsheet of customer records gets copied into a cloud storage bucket for a quick analysis, then forgotten. No alert fires, so the credit card numbers and health details inside sit exposed until someone happens to notice.

Finding data like that and controlling where it can go is the job of data loss prevention (DLP) services. These tools scan your storage and message traffic for sensitive patterns, then act on each match according to the policy you set.

That content check is what firewalls and encryption lack. Both control who can reach your data but neither looks at what the data is, so neither can stop an employee from pasting a customer record into a chat.…