What Does Data Loss Prevention Do?
Throughout 2023, a private research university discovered multiple breaches of its data. In August 2023, an American educational technology company found that millions of its users’ email addresses had been scrapped. In early October 2023, a genetic testing company had about one million fields of user data stolen.
We don’t know if data loss prevention (DLP) technology played a part in the discovery of the activity involved in these and other breaches, but these breaches highlight the vital importance of knowing where data goes, when — all those W questions.