Data loss prevention

Abstract

Leakage of your data could be embarrassing or worse, cost you industrial edge or loss of accounts. Allowing your organization to act in non‐compliance with privacy acts and other laws could be worse than embarrassing; the integrity of your organization may be at stake. Intellectual property is the term widely used in every professional aspect of life. Information plays a vital role in this topic the information must be secured in proper place that is only the person who is intended to see that information is able to see it. Forrest of the staff, information is given upon special requests only. Today, all the leading antivirus companies like McAfee and Norton have developed the system to prevent the confidential and sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands. The system is mainly known as Data Loss Prevention System. Data Loss Prevention is a comprehensive, content‐aware technology that discovers, monitors, and protects confidential data wherever it is stored or used across network, storage and endpoint systems. The thesis presents our project “Data Loss Prevention” (DLP), which is aimed at developing a system to secure the sensitive information from leaving thecorporate network by any means possible. Main objective of DLP is to protect the critical information from any insider threats.