Intellectual Property (IP) protection enables organizations to mitigate the potential leaks of highly-sensitive business assets, including design files, source code, contracts, and proprietary documents.
Unintentional or intentional leak of sensitive IP (design, code, contract, etc.)
Difficulty identifying IP that is sent via email, cloud, and endpoint
Difficulty enforcing connecting to stop unauthorized transfer of data
Example Situation
The product engineer attempts to send a CAD designed file of a new prototype to their personal email account to later work on this single document outside of the secure corporate environment.
Violation Factors
Proprietary design specifications in the document
Email to unauthorized external personal email account
Results in an unauthorized attempt of exfiltration of protected IP
Cloud-native Data Loss Prevention (DLP) employs advanced detection mechanisms to label, track, and secure sensitive intellectual property across cloud, email, and endpoint environments to prevent unauthorized transfers of protected information.
Prevention of leakage of critical intellectual property
Compliance with controls desired by regulated industries and government agencies
Automated enforcement and real-time protection across multiple environments
Prioritized API alerts for high-value or sensitive assets helps improve incident response.
DLP uses document fingerprinting, custom dictionaries, and file hashing to label and preserve the tracking of intellectual property assets
DLP can scan files that are in motion (e.g. email, cloud transfers) at rest (stored in SaaS apps) and in use (on endpoint devices)
Any unauthorized exfiltration attempt can lead to automatic blocking, quarantine or alert
DLP incidents that involve high-value intellectual property or privileged users can be flagged as high severity with action taken in accordance with your preferred security workflows
