Data breach incidents are escalating rapidly, making data protection a critical priority for organizations globally. This growing threat environment necessitates a robust and future-proof strategy. The sheer frequency, diverse causes (ranging from internal error to malicious intent), and devastating impact of data leaks prove that businesses must move beyond simple perimeter defense to adopt a comprehensive data loss prevention strategy and associated technology.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is fundamentally a risk minimization strategy focused on proactively monitoring, detecting, and blocking potential data breach incidents. Its ultimate objective is to ensure that employees and other stakeholders do not accidentally or intentionally share sensitive and confidential data outside your organization's authorized boundaries.

A DLP solution functions by:

A complete defense strategy targets data in three key states: in-use (on endpoints), in-motion (across the network), and at-rest (in storage). Traditional DLP measures often rely on a combination of standard tools such as firewalls, signature databases, file tagging, or structured data fingerprinting to protect this sensitive information.

*DLP Type Comparison Disclaimer: In the modern security landscape, many leading DLP vendors offer unified platforms that integrate Endpoint, Network, and Storage DLP capabilities. Therefore, solutions are rarely confined to a single column. For example, while Broadcom's Symantec DLP Core traditionally focuses heavily on Network Protection modules, it also includes dedicated Endpoint modules to ensure protection across all three key states of data. This table is based on the primary focus and historical strength of each solution type, helping to illustrate the architectural differences in data protection.

Teramind's Data Loss Prevention solution (Teramind DLP) is built directly atop our activity monitoring (employee monitoring) and behavior analytics platform. This foundation provides a unique advantage by integrating advanced DLP capabilities, such as automated data discovery, classification, and content-based rules with deep user context.

This integration makes Teramind DLP highly effective against the human factor (malicious intent, errors, or accidents) which often bypasses traditional perimeter defenses. By correlating data access with user behavior, Teramind enables you to implement a robust and adaptive plan against data breaches and exfiltration attempts.

Teramind DLP utilizes a simple, comprehensive 3-step process to safeguard your organization against data and IP leakage:

Teramind's approach to data identification is unique: we do not perform traditional, resource-intensive data-at-rest scanning. Instead, the endpoint Agent scans in-motion data in real-time as the user interacts with it, such as when they send an email, access a file, or browse a website.

This focused, real-time scanning ensures immediate detection while covering all necessary classification features for common and complex use cases.

Teramind includes built-in templates for many predefined data categories, enabling immediate, real-time classification through Content Sharing rules:

You can easily detect proprietary data, such as internal billing/invoice numbers, special project codes, or any other data formats using custom data types specific to your organization.

In Teramind, custom definitions can be built easily using:

While Step 1 (Classification) defines what data is sensitive, Step 2 in your DLP implementation journey focuses on creating policies and rules that dictate how your workforce is authorized to handle that data. By defining these rules, you direct the Teramind Agent to automatically prevent any violation.

Teramind DLP allows you to create three powerful rule types to cover every dimension of data risk:

There are many sample rules included with your deployment. Just pick a sample, and the rule editor will be automatically populated with core settings and sample data you can customize for your needs.

You can visit the Teramind Demo Dashboard to see live examples of policies and rules in action. This resource contains many pre-configured policies and rules that you can inspect, check out, and even export to accelerate your own deployment:

Here are some practical examples demonstrating how you can leverage Teramind's rule types to cover comprehensive security scenarios:

Teramind moves beyond simple alerts by enabling dynamic, progressive, and real-time preventative action against rule violations. Based on factors like thresholds, timeframe, user group, and defined risk level, the system can automatically execute a range of responses.

These responses include:

This comprehensive suite of actions allows organizations to enforce a proportionate and automated security response tailored to the severity and context of the data breach attempt.

The final and critical stage of the DLP process is the effective investigation of security incidents to ensure swift remediation and continuous policy refinement. Teramind provides multiple integrated tools to analyze rule violations with forensic-level detail.

The Behavior Alerts dashboard serves as your primary incident triage center. It offers a centralized list of all rule violation incidents, detailing crucial context such as the date/time, the user involved, the activity type, and the rule that was violated.

The dashboard includes a dedicated Risk tab where you can analyze the overall impact of incidents on your organization. This feature calculates unique risk scores to identify the top risky rules, users, applications, and websites. This scoring allows security teams to instantly identify high-risk areas requiring immediate attention. You can also conduct trend analysis by plotting risk trends across departments or by violation severity.

You can access the Behavior Alerts dashboard from the Dashboards > All Dashboards > Behavior Alerts menu:

From the dashboard, click the Three Dots icon in front of a row on a grid widget to access its Context Menu:

The Session Player is Teramind's essential tool for forensic investigation, providing irrefutable, contextual evidence. It allows you to view a user’s desktop in either live view or history playback mode.

Using the Session Player, you can:

The Session Player is easily accessible via the Movie Camera icon found across the dashboards and other places, ensuring a quick transition from detection to visual investigation and necessary intervention.