The Top 12 Data Loss Prevention Software

Teramind is a user behavior and workforce monitoring platform with a comprehensive behavioral DLP feature set, designed to prevent data loss and mitigate insider threats. It provides extensive workforce intelligence through real-time activity monitoring across endpoint devices.

Teramind Features

• Real-time activity tracking of all user behaviors, live streaming of all desktop activity, and video playbacks of suspicious incidents triggered by custom rules and workflows.
• Admins can monitor and intervene in real-time on user actions to prevent unauthorized file uploads, browsing activities, and more.
• Admins can set specific rules to detect harmful actions (e.g., using unauthorized USB devices or file movements).
• When triggered, the platform can alert admins and lock users out of devices to prevent data loss and insider threats.
• The well designed, intuitive admin console provides a live stream of desktop activity, playback of suspicious incidents, and detailed reporting on productivity and risky behaviors.
• Inspects email content, attachments, and network data to prevent unauthorized transfers of sensitive data, such as financial information and PII, based on admin-defined policies.

Expert Insights’ Comments: Teramind is ideal for organizations looking to secure data, enhance productivity, and improve business processes. Its robust DLP controls, customizable rules, and detailed user insights make it an excellent choice for teams focused on protecting against data loss and monitoring workforces for insider threats.  The admin console is also well designed, modern and easy to manage.

Endpoint Protector by CoSoSys is a comprehensive Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution designed to work seamlessly across multiple operating systems including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its primary function is to safeguard sensitive data such as company Intellectual Property (IP) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from both unintentional leaks and malicious data theft attempts. It achieves this by offering a suite of tools that allow for detailed control and management of file transfers and data flows, both in transit and at rest.

Features

• Device control: enables the lockdown, monitoring, and management of USB and peripheral ports, offering granular control based on several parameters such as vendor ID and serial number
• Content-aware protection: scans data in motion, providing the ability to monitor, control, and block file transfers through detailed content and context inspection
• E-Discovery: Aids in identifying, encrypting, and deleting sensitive data through manual or automated scan
• Multiple deployment options, including as a virtual appliance and as a cloud service
• Streamlined deployment with predefined policies
• Central administration dashboard for management and real-time alerts

Expert Insights’ Comments: Endpoint Protector enhances security without compromising business productivity. The solution monitors and controls any data transfers, tracking IP addresses to prevent data theft. Endpoint Protector ensure compliance with various data protection regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Endpoint Protector ensures minimal interference with ongoing business operations, while significantly reducing false positives, preserving resources and maintaining uninterrupted workflows.

Strac offers an innovative DLP solution covering SaaS, cloud, and generative AI applications. Strac uses AI and ML to deliver specific and customizable data security policies, with the aim of addressing common DLP challenges like high false positive rates. 

Strac Features

• Scans and discovers sensitive data across a range of formats including emails, PDFs, images, zip files, chat messages, attachments as well as structured databases like AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Uses ML to automatically classify data based on compliance standards such as HIPAA, PII, PCI PHI, etc.
• Comprehensive remediation actions masking, redaction, labelling, blocking, deletion, and admin alerts
• Seamless integration with SaaS applications like Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, AWS, Azure, GCP, and other generative AI tools.
• Supports SAML 2.0 SSO integration, and integrations with SIEM platforms like Microsoft Sentinel
• Offers agent-based DLP for endpoint protection (currently available for Mac and Linux) and agentless solutions for comprehensive cloud and SaaS integration.

Expert Insights’ Comments: Strac’s data protection solution delivers flexible but robust security, allowing you to protect data across a wide number of applications. Strac is a young company, with an innovative product, as such, the platform is continually having new features and capabilities added. We would recommend Strac for midmarket and enterprise organizations.

Check Point is a multinational software and hardware provider, offering IT security products including network security, endpoint security, cloud security, mobile security, security management, and data security. Check Point has two DLP options to choose from: Content Awareness and DLP. Content Awareness provides basic data control features such as a Unified Policy rulebase, control of data in each policy rule, pattern and keyword matching etc. DLP, on the other hand, is suited to those who require granular control and want to be able to use dictionary matches, match by template, scan file repositories, and create and add watermarks to files using CpCode scripting language.

Features

• Users can choose from multiple pre-defined configurations for PII, PCI, and HIPAA
• Create new data types and customize pre-defined data types as needed
• Customizable, multi-language user notifications
• Inspect and control SMTP, FTP, HTTPS webmail, and Exchange traffic
• Rapid and flexible deployment
• Central policy and events management
• Inspects SSL/TLS encrypted traffic passing through the firewall to prevent data leaks

Expert Insights’ Comments: Check Point’s offering of both a lightweight and a full-featured option means there is enough flexibility to help both larger enterprises and SMBs control access and protect businesses’ sensitive data. We recommend this data loss prevention software solution to organizations interested in granular control and the ability to mitigate incidents in real-time.

Digital Guardian (acquired by Fortra in 2021) was founded in 2003 to provide technology that can prevent theft of intellectual property. The Digital Guardian endpoint DLP solution is an enterprise IP and DLP software solution. It is offered as a self-drive package, delivered from the cloud. Digital Guardian’s Data Protection Platform is comprised of three core offerings, self-service DLP tools, a fully managed DLP service, and a managed EDR (Managed Detection & Response). There is also a range of optional add-on modules such as data encryption and enhanced forensics.

Features

• Total visibility and flexible control across all operating systems
• Comprehensive context and content awareness for better control over structured and unstructured data
• Contextual awareness, analysis, and reporting allows you to automatically block threatening actions
• Granular control of all data movement
• Built-in advanced data classification lets you prioritize data protection efforts on the most sensitive data, using content inspection, context awareness, and user classification
• Allows you to monitor and log all endpoint activity automatically even without defined security policies in place, making it easier to discover sensitive data misuse
• Centralized management console
• Supports Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms

Expert Insights’ Comments: Digital Guardian’s Data Protection Platform is comprised of three core offerings, DLP, a fully managed DLP service, and a managed EDR (Managed Detection & Response). There is also a range of optional add-on modules such as data encryption and enhanced forensics. We recommend Digital Guardian’s DLP system to organizations looking for a solution that offers quick deployment and on-demand scalability, while providing full visibility into data and ensuring it is always secure.

Forcepoint, founded in 1994, takes a human-centric approach to cyber security with solutions that adapt in real-time to how people interact with data. Forcepoint’s data loss prevention tool comes in two versions: DLP for Compliance, which provides critical capabilities to address compliance needs, but leaves out some more advanced features. DLP for Intellectual Property Protection utilizes advanced detection and control of potential data loss incidents and in addition to the features of DLP for Compliance.

Features

• Cloud app protection (real-time and API)
• Structured and unstructured data fingerprinting
• Data discovery across all environments
• Over 1,500 data classifiers
• Single-click remediation
• DLP support for custom SaaS applications
• Encryption of files moving to removable storage devices
• Optical Character Recognition identifies data embedded in images in motion and at rest, which helps with addressing compliance

Expert Insights’ Comments: Forcepoint’s data loss prevention software focuses on unified policies and user risk by using automation to ensure that business data security is frictionless and intuitive. Forcepoint DLP is a proven solution suitable for organizations of any size, whether they require basic compliance coverage or a more complex offering. We recommend this data loss prevention solution to organizations looking for proactive safeguarding of their critical data and intellectual property.

GTB Technologies is an American cybersecurity AI-based technology company, providing content-aware data loss prevention for organizations of all sizes. They are well respected for their powerful content detection at both binary and text levels. GTB’s data loss prevention gives organizations the ability to create, manage, and enforce policy-based content controls. Admins have oversight of contextual information, including when, where, and how the data relates, as well as information on its origin. This makes it possible to control when data can or cannot be moved, whether it be to or from the company network and devices, both on-premises and off-premises.

Features

• Advanced detection, prevention, and response capabilities
• Coverage from on-premises, endpoint, data centers, and cloud
• Hybrid deployment
• Cloud-based servers
• Central management and reporting
• Real-time data classification for all inbound and outbound transmissions from the network and devices
• Automatically enforces security policies on security violations
• Addresses threats from both trusted and untrusted users

Expert Insights’ Comments: GTB Technologies’ DLP solution is one of the more advanced solutions available on the market, making them a top pick for organizations with a serious need for data loss prevention. They protect the sensitive information of some of the major players across a range of industries, including healthcare, finance, government, and defense contractors. We recommend this solution to organizations looking for granular control and effective customization of parameters with real-time, preventative measures to protect data.

Trellix (formally McAfee Enterprises and FireEye, rebranded as Trellix following the 2021 merger) is a global cybersecurity company, engaged in protecting against cyber-attacks using integrated security, privacy, and trust solutions. Their solution, Trellix Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Prevent, helps to safeguard intellectual property, and ensure compliance. Using the full product suite of Trellix DLP Discover, Prevent, Monitor, and Endpoint solutions, users can protect vital information with effective reporting, enforce critical policies, secure important data with fast remediation, and improve visibility via user behavior tracking.

Features

• Scans all accessible resources to locate sensitive data, uncover potential risk an identity the content owner
• Unified policy creation, reporting, and management allow for better visibility and control over vital data (both on-premises and in the cloud)
• Remediation of data leaks to prevent data from being shared outside of your environment
• If a policy violation occurs, integrated case management sends notifications to content owners and system administrators
• Create reports on demand or scheduled for regular delivery and access over 20 preconfigured and customizable reports
• Centrally deploy policies on multiple servers using Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator

Expert Insights’ Comments: Trellix protects intellectual property and business-critical information on the network, the cloud, and at the endpoints, as well as maintaining compliance, while providing straightforward deployment and management capabilities. We would recommend this solution as a good option for organizations looking for a modular approach to DLP.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft has established itself as a leading provider of computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related devices. Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MIP) is a built-in, unified, intelligent, and extensible data loss prevention product designed to protect sensitive data enterprise-wide — in Microsoft 365 cloud services, on-premises, and third-party SaaS applications.

Features

• Data discovery lets you scan across data (in use and at rest) to classify across on-premises, SharePoint, Exchange, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, endpoints, and non-Microsoft cloud apps
• Data classification lets you add labels to identity sensitive information or proprietary data with in-built and trainable classifiers
• With activity explorer you can gain greater insights into user activity related to the access and use of sensitive data
• Get a more extensive view into documents containing sensitive data, and get the context needed to create data protection policies, with content explorer
• Unified admin console
• Use a range of encryption keys to support various customer scenarios

Expert Insights’ Comments: This solution allows organizations to control and secure documents, emails, and sensitive data shared outside of the company. Over a million organizations – with tens of millions of total users – are utilizing Microsoft Purview Information Protection to automatically discover, classify, label, and protect their important data. We would recommend this DLP solution to organizations that need a solution that is effective, but easy to implement.

Proofpoint is an American enterprise security company that provides a host of services, including: SaaS, email archiving, email security, and data loss prevention. Proofpoint’s Enterprise Data Loss Prevention solution brings together Proofpoint’s range of DLP tools, which includes their solutions for email, cloud, and endpoint DLP. The product unifies behavior, content, and threat telemetry from each of these channels with the goal of addressing the full spectrum of people-centric data loss scenarios.

Features

• Adds, both, threat, and behavior telemetry to content so it can determine intent and risk
• Brings together telemetry across endpoint, email, and cloud, allowing security and compliance teams to address data loss scenarios in a single solution
• DLP classification applied across channels
• Unified incident and investigations interface
• Scalable, cloud-based architecture
• More than 240 customizable sensitive data detectors

Expert Insights’ Comments: Proofpoint’s Enterprise Data Loss Prevention takes a people-centric approach to protect organizations against any data loss that originates with employees. They offer users an enterprise solution to tackle the problem of data loss, with a particular focus on data loss via email which makes it a good solution for organizations with extensive email usage, or perceive email to be an organizational vulnerability. We would recommend Proofpoint Enterprise Data Loss Prevention to organizations interested in implementing a user-transparent, centrally-based, policy-driven DLP filter.

Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity leader with decades of security expertise and global threat research. Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention is a family of solutions that includes Trend Micro DLP Endpoint, Trend Micro DLP Network Monitor, and Trend Micro DLP Management Server. Together these solutions minimize the risk of information loss and boost the visibility of data use patterns for high-risk business processes, thereby keeping sensitive information secure.

Features

• Offers granular device control
• Allows you to restrict the use of USB drives, USB attached mobile devices, and other removable media
• Detects and reacts to improper data based on file attributes, keywords, and regular expressions
• Interactive employee education and remediation
• Supports compliance requirements with out-of-the-box compliance templates
• Offers forensic data capture and real-time reporting
• Solution is fully integrated and centrally managed
• Protection against data harvesting malware through the Smart Protection Network
• Advance DataDNA fingerprinting to better secure unstructured data and intellectual property

Expert Insights’ Comments: Trend Micro provides an integrated data loss prevention solution in the form of a lightweight plugin that gives control and visibility over sensitive data, working to prevent the loss of data through email, USB, web, SaaS applications, mobile devices, and cloud storage. The platform protects more than 500,000 organizations and over 250 million individuals across clouds, networks, endpoints, and devices. We recommend Trend Micro Integrated DLP to organizations looking for a fully integrated and centrally managed solution designed to improve visibility and control and provide automated responses to policy violations.

Zscaler, founded in 2008, provides enterprises with technology and expertise to support them through their digital transformation. The Zscaler Cloud DLP solution quickly finds and classifies data across all cloud data channels, protecting confidential data with advanced data loss prevention capabilities. Zscaler Cloud DLP lets you extend protection to users wherever they go, without the need to bypass your security controls when connecting direct-to-cloud.

Features

• One unified platform to secure internet, email, SaaS, endpoints, private apps, and risk posture
• Machine learning and cloud scale allows for effective classification of data and risky behaviors
• Customize data protection to your needs with EDM, UEBA, OCR, IDM, and workflow automation
• Protects confidential data with advanced data loss prevention features like Exact Data Match and Indexed Documents Matching
• Follows users on and off the network for continual data loss prevention, inspects online network traffic (including SSL)

Expert Insights’ Comments: Zscaler Cloud DLP is part of the Zero Trust Exchange – this is a platform that acts as a barrier between users and the internet, inspecting all traffic while providing comprehensive protection. Zscaler’s DLP offering is designed for large-scale enterprises looking for data protection and intellectual property management. We would recommend Zsclaer Cloud DLP to organizations looking for advanced controls and granular policies.