Key Reasons Why current DLP (Data Loss Prevention) Projects Fail
Undefined Sensitive Data
You can’t protect what you haven’t identified. While PII is obvious, organizations often overlook financial data, IP, and business strategies. Vormetric reports that 62% of organizations struggle to define sensitive data.
Unknown Data Locations
Sensitive data is scattered across endpoints, emails, cloud, and SaaS apps. Most DLP tools fail to track all these sources, making full protection impossible.
Alert Fatigue & False Positives
Excessive false alerts overwhelm security teams, causing real threats to be ignored. 451 Research found that 60% of DLP alerts are false positives, leading to response delays.
Incomplete Coverage
A strong DLP strategy must cover endpoints, cloud, emails, and SaaS apps, but many tools protect only specific areas, leaving gaps. McAfee reports that 90% of breaches occur due to these blind spots.
Complex Rule Management
DLP policies must evolve with business needs, but constant updates are resource-intensive. Gartner notes that over 60% of DLP projects fail due to complex rule maintenance.
Productivity Roadblocks
Rigid rules block legitimate work, preventing employees from sharing necessary documents. Forrester found that 63% of organizations face slow IT responses to data protection requests.
Why Choose NxgSecure?
5-Step Data Protection Journey to guarantee Success
Identify Sensitive Data with AI: Use AI to detect and classify sensitive data like PII, credit card details, and PHI. Pre-built templates simplify classification, reducing manual effort.
Implement DLP in ‘Monitoring’ mode, at start: Track sensitive data access and transfers without disrupting workflows. Train employees on data protection policies and best practices before shifting to block mode.
Implement ‘Block’ mode in High-Risk Departments: Restrict unauthorized access in sensitive areas like finance while leaving other departments in monitoring mode. AI highlights costly violations for better decision-making.
Customize & Evolve Protection: As the DLP program matures, Create custom classifiers (keywords, regex, etc.) to detect complex threats beyond standard templates, ensuring ongoing security.
Secure Email First: Start with email—the top breach vector—before expanding protection to endpoints, SaaS, and cloud for full coverage.
Highly dynamic and often outside corporate networks, endpoints face direct threats like malware and ransomware. Protection requires EDR, encryption, and regular patching, along with DLP for endpoint to safeguard data at rest and in use.
Email
A primary attack vector, email is vulnerable to phishing, account takeover, and impersonation. Beyond built-in security (O365, Google Workspace), third-party solutions like DLP for email, encryption, and DMARC/SPF/DKIM are essential.
SaaS Applications
While SaaS providers secure infrastructure, customers must manage access, encryption, and data governance. Risks include account takeovers, data leaks, and misconfigurations, making IAM, RBAC, DLP for SaaS and MFA critical.
Cloud (IaaS)
Customers control application security, storage, and configurations. Key risks include misconfigured storage buckets, insider threats, and insecure deployments. Best practices include encryption, firewall rules, and monitoring audit trails and logs.
Key Benefits of NxgSecure DLP
Comprehensive Content Inspection: Scans email body and attachments for sensitive data using pre-configured and custom detection templates.
Granular Policy Enforcement: Enables precise control over email flow with flexible rules to block, alert, or quarantine messages based on content, sender/receiver relationships, attachments, and contextual factors like location, device, or user role.
Comprehensive Content Inspection: Uses AI-driven behavioral analytics to spot suspicious activity (such as unusual sending patterns or email traffic to external addresses) and block malicious attachments.
Advanced Threat Detection: Scans email body and attachments for sensitive data using pre-configured and custom detection templates.
Phishing Simulation Training: Provides training capability to train users to detect phishing emails and integrates with security awareness training.
Seamless Integration Works with O365 and Google Workspace, offering a unified dashboard for policy management and compliance tracking.
Data Discovery: Identify and locate sensitive data quickly and efficiently with a lightweight agent. Both structured and unstructured data like word documents, excel spreadsheets, powerpoint can be discovered
Data Classification: Simplify the process of categorizing sensitive data by leveraging pre-configured templates. Ensure all data is labeled appropriately to streamline compliance efforts and apply the right security policies.
Risk Quantification: Understand the financial impact of potential data breaches by assigning a monetary risk value to discovered data. This helps prioritize remediation efforts based on risk levels.
Data Encryption: Protect sensitive data at rest, in transit, and in use with robust encryption technologies. Even if data is accessed by unauthorized entities, encryption ensures it remains unusable.
Data Flow Monitoring: Continuously track the sharing, access, movement, and modifications of sensitive data. Receive detailed insights into data activity to identify potential threats in real time.
Real-Time Alerts and Granular Permissions: Real-Time Alerts and Granular Permissions
Cloud Application Discovery & Visibility: Detects sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud apps (shadow IT), assigning risk scores based on security, compliance, and data access.
Real-Time Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Scans cloud data for sensitive content, applies encryption/tokenization, and enforces policies to block, alert, or quarantine risky data.
Advanced Threat Protection: Uses behavioral analytics to detect anomalies (such as unusual login times or abnormal data access) and scans files for malware before granting access or downloads.
Granular Access Control: Restricts access based on user role, device, location, and network while enforcing MFA for secure authentication.
Comprehensive Compliance & Auditing Automates compliance reporting (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC-2) and ensures data residency meets regulatory requirements.
Seamless Security Integration: Connects with SIEM, SSO, and APIs for unified security management and streamlined authentication.
Hear it from a customer
“We saw the benefits of Nxg360 platform within first few hours of deploying our first appliance. Their analyst called us to make us aware of security threats and vulnerabilities that they detected right away”
Kumar Mayank(CEO) – Zimyo