Forcepoint DLP

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) refers to a set of technologies and strategies designed to prevent sensitive data from being lost, misused or accessed by unauthorized users. Forcepoint DLP protects data in motion, at rest and in use—across endpoints, networks and cloud environments—to ensure your critical information stays protected. Our solution combines advanced analytics and policy enforcement to help stop data breaches.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools tag and monitor sensitive data to enforce policies that prevent it from being lost, stolen or misused. DLP scans data at rest (file shares, SharePoint, OneDrive), in motion (email, web, SaaS uploads) and in use (copy/paste, printing, screen capture) to detect regulated data like PII, PHI, PCI and intellectual property, such as images and blueprints. DLP allows organizations to create policies that cover certain types of data, applications or sets of users and limit potentiially risky actions that could lead to a data leak or breach. DLP solutions vary in enforcement depending on the severity of the incident, including blocking, quarantining, encrypting or coaching users when policies are violated.

A DLP policy is a set of conditions that define how sensitive data should be handled within an organization. These policies help prevent unauthorized access, accidental leaks or intentional data exfiltration. With Forcepoint DLP, you can create customizable policies tailored to your business needs, ensuring data is protected across endpoints, networks and cloud environments.

DLP policies define how data should be handled based on its sensitivity, user roles and regulatory requirements. With Forcepoint, policies are customizable. Our policy engine also helps with maintaining global compliance standards like GDPR and CCPA.

DLP software is a security solution that helps organizations prevent the loss of sensitive and valuable information by ensuring that data assets are adequately protected, stored and used.

A DLP system is a comprehensive solution that helps prevent data breaches by monitoring, detecting and blocking the unauthorized movement of sensitive data. Forcepoint uses artificial intelligence to discover, classify and monitor structured and unstructured data with highly accurate enforcement that reduces false positives and adapts based on context and user behavior. Forcepoint’s unified approach to policy enforcement ensures consistent protection across all data channels.

DLP can help your organization stay ahead of evolving threats, ensure regulatory compliance and protect sensitive data effectively and efficiently. Capabilities include policy creation and enforcement, incident response and reporting, compliance and regulatory support and more.

Absolutely. If your organization handles Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), Payment Card Information (PCI), intellectual property or operates in a BYOD environment, DLP is essential. Forcepoint DLP helps you prevent accidental leaks, insider threats and external attacks—protecting your brand, customers and bottom line.

Data leakage is the unauthorized or unintentional transmission of sensitive data outside your organization. This can happen through email, cloud apps, removable media or even printed documents.

Forcepoint recommends the following best practices: Identify and Assess: Identify where your sensitive data resides and how it flows. Classify Data: Use automated tools to label data based on sensitivity and compliance needs. Establish Policies: Define clear rules for how data can be accessed, shared and stored. Centralize Oversight: Avoid fragmented DLP efforts by unifying policy management across departments. Train Employees: Educate users on data handling best practices and reinforce with real-time coaching.

When people talk about the different types of DLP, they typically mean network DLP, endpoint DLP and cloud DLP. Network DLP monitors and controls data in motion across the network Endpoint DLP protects data on individual devices Cloud DLP secures data stored in or moving through cloud services such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace The main differentiator for Forcepoint DLP is that it unifies all three types of DLP under a single policy engine and console. The same classifiers and policies can be applied across endpoints, on-prem networks and cloud apps, including SaaS and GenAI environments, via Forcepoint CASB API integrations. This gives you consistent rules, incident views and risk scoring across web, email, endpoint and cloud channels, instead of managing three separate DLP systems.

Endpoint DLP is Data Loss Prevention software that runs directly on user devices (laptops, desktops, sometimes mobile) to protect data in use and data at rest on the endpoint. It can see and control activities like copy/paste, save-as, printing, screen capture and writing to USB or other removable media - and Forcepoint DLP works even when the device is off the corporate network. Forcepoint DLP is designed specifically to stop data loss that originates at the endpoint, whether accidental or malicious. It monitors real-time traffic and user actions inside applications, applies centrally-defined DLP and discovery policies, and can block, encrypt, quarantine or require justification when users attempt risky actions such as copying sensitive files to external drives or posting them to the web.

Network DLP monitors data in motion across your organization’s network. It identifies and blocks risky behavior—whether from insiders or external threats—before data can leave your environment. Forcepoint DLP offers deep visibility and control over data transfers, helping ensure compliance and reduce the risk of breaches.

Cloud DLP safeguards data stored in and moving through cloud services. Forcepoint DLP can augment and enhance platforms like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

Absolutely. Forcepoint DLP can augment and enhance Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

The key features and functionalities of DLP include: Data discovery across on-prem and cloud Data classification and labelling Advanced content inspection Predefined policies and templates for compliance Unified policy based enforcement for all channels Device control and endpoint protection Real-time monitoring and alerting Incident management and investigation Reporting, analytics and audit-ready compliance evidence Integration and deployment flexibility

Typical DLP use cases include preventing data breaches and accidental leaks, protecting intellectual property, and meeting regulatory compliance obligations. Common scenarios may include stopping unauthorized uploads of PII/PHI/PCI data, blocking exfiltration of source code and trade secrets and enforcing regional privacy rules like GDPR and CCPA using pre-built policy templates. Modern deployments also focus heavily on cloud, hybrid work and GenAI. Common Forcepoint DLP use cases include securing data in Microsoft 365 and other SaaS apps, controlling data movement from unmanaged/BYOD devices, reducing insider risk by monitoring high-risk user behavior, and inspecting prompts and responses for generative AI tools. Together, these use cases map back to a single goal: keep sensitive data where it belongs without slowing users down.