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CRITICAL CAPABILITIES OF A MODERN DLP SUNDARAM LAKSHMANAN, CTO AND HEAD OF ENGINEERING, SASE PRODUCTS AT LOOKOUT, EXPLAINS THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A MODERN DLP SOLUTION FOR DIGITAL ORGANISATIONS.
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n some ways, IT teams had a great life in the early 2000s. Data was stored inside data centers and accessed through known ingress and egress points like a castle with a limited number of gates. As a result, organisations had control over exactly whom and what devices could access company data. This is no longer the case. With users accessing cloud applications with whatever networks and devices are at their disposal, those defence mechanisms have become inadequate. To ensure their sensitive data is secure, organisations have to rethink their security model — including the way Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology is implemented. 30
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While DLP has been around for decades, it has reinvented itself in this remote-first environment which is why I think it is important to understand how modern DLP solutions, integrated into a cloud-delivered platform, can help organisations prevent data breaches, comply with regulations, while providing secure access to remote workers. Why do organisations need a modern DLP solution? Back when network architecture was centred around data centers, monitoring technologies like DLP existed on the edges of corporate perimeters or at the data exchange
points. This worked because there were only a small number of apps and resources and organisations used relatively homogenous endpoints that were corporate-owned or managed. About a decade ago, that castle-andmoat cybersecurity model started to break down. IT had to start accounting for other endpoints that didn’t use Windows such as MacOS, iOS and Android devices. It got even more complicated when corporate data migrated from corporate perimeters to private clouds and softwareas-a-service (SaaS) apps, where each of them had their own unique configurations and security measures.
