Why You Should and How You Can Move Away from Existing DLP Programs
Every Cloud – Paul Richards
Netskope DLP is a data protection solution that offers innovative technologies like machine learning and UEBA (User and Entity Behavior Analytics).
It is fully integrated into the Netskope Security Service Edge (SSE) solution and is a core element of SASE (Secure Access Service Edge).
With Netskope DLP, organizations can benefit from a unified, cloud-native security platform that eliminates blind spots, provides consistency, enhances performance, and reduces costs and complexity.
Customers can achieve the following with Netskope DLP:
1) Greater visibility and risk mitigation: Netskope DLP provides comprehensive data protection based on zero trust principles and state-of-the-art controls.
It offers visibility across all key vectors and helps organizations mitigate risks effectively.
2) Simplify data classification and policy management: The converged platform of Netskope DLP, enriched by machine learning, advanced analytics, and rich reporting, simplifies data classification, policy definition, and incident management.
This streamlines the data protection process and enhances efficiency.
3) Boost end-user agility and reduce friction: Netskope DLP offers flexible context-driven policies and a lightweight agent, reducing friction for end-users while ensuring data protection.
It aims to coach employees and promote safe data behavior without hindering business decisions.
Real-time alerts are provided to users about their data security violations to ensure immediate effectiveness.
To transition to Netskope DLP, organizations can follow these steps:
1) Reassess your data protection needs: Conduct a thorough assessment of your current technology environment to identify and understand the data that must be protected, the services and repositories used, and how data is being shared among employees and external parties.
This stage helps uncover less effective portions of legacy DLP deployments and supports regulatory compliance efforts.
2) Start with cloud apps: Determine the highest risks and prioritize mitigating them.
Solve new cloud data protection use cases first, as more data now resides in corporate SaaS applications, cloud email, and IaaS environments.
Netskope provides CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) solution with embedded DLP as its core component, catering to data security across cloud applications.
3) Consider cloud email: If your organization migrates to cloud-based email services like Microsoft 365 or Gmail, leverage Netskope DLP’s extensive protection for email.
Netskope offers real-time email protection, API-based integration with email services, and data protection through personal email instances.
4) Protect data in-motion: As more sensitive data is stored in the cloud and flows across various networks, it’s important to ensure data protection across all connections.
Netskope’s SSE natively embeds unified DLP services to secure sensitive data transactions from anywhere people work, with zero trust principles, and without hardware constraints.
5) Protect data on employees’ endpoints: While data is increasingly stored on cloud services, sensitive data is often created or downloaded on corporate provisioned machines.
Netskope provides a lightweight endpoint DLP that detects data in-use via USB and deploys device control policies to prevent data loss or theft.
6) Build upon existing solutions: If recent investments were made towards native DLP capabilities within cloud service providers (CSPs) or specific SaaS vendors, it may be wise to utilize those solutions in the short or medium term.
Netskope DLP, however, consistently protects all environments with uniform policies and via a single console.
7) Evaluate and leverage newer capabilities: Netskope DLP offers updated data protection approaches, driven by ML and advanced detection technologies.
It provides unified policies, a single console, and integration with the overall security stack.
Leverage the expanded computing capabilities, accuracy, and adaptability of Netskope DLP to achieve more robust data protection.
Throughout the migration journey, it is important to consider the expertise gained by internal DLP practitioners when adopting Netskope DLP.
Their knowledge can help replicate best practices, ensure compliance, and establish proper remediation workflows.
By minimizing the program’s efforts, Netskope DLP enables security teams to focus on substantive security activities and proactive initiatives.
Link: https://www.everycloud.co.uk/insights/why-you-should-and-how-you-can-move-away-from-existing-dlp-programs/