HOW IS INFORMATION BEING LEAKED?

As per a report by DataProt, 68 records are lost or stolen every second and news about data breaches becoming more common. Technology is advancing at an exponential rate. In this fast-growing environment maintaining security of data is highly crucial as a small loss of data might create critical impact in the organization, hence preventing their sensitive data became a greatest challenge. Traditionally organisations implemented methods like firewall, virtual private network(VPN) at the endpoints and framed control policies to mitigate the risk, but still these methods started lagging as the technology developed. The methodology of data leakage and data theft also attained heights. Hence there was a need for some system which could prevent leakage of data and this could be done with the help of Data Leakage Prevention system (DLPs). The DLPs are capable of detect leakage in Data at any states namely Data in rest, Data in transit and DSata in use which increases the need of the DLPs. This paper briefly discusses about concept of data leakage, reasons behind such incidents, various DLPs available & their limitations and related information.