Why Traditional DLP Fails And How Double DLP AI Can Un-Leak Sensitive Data

Dashboards, Alerts & the CISO's Dilemma… Solved.

Rocky the raptor here, RPost’s cybersecurity product evangelist. I was thinking about Shakespeare’s famous line in relation to the job of an IT security professional: “To be or not to be, that is the question.” 

You see, on the one hand, CISO-types want to see risks, alerts, and remediation in a dashboard. So, one would think they would like “to dashboard” versus not to.

But then, when they have the dashboards, they certainly don’t want to stare at them waiting for something to happen. So perhaps “not to dashboard” is preferrable. Right? Who doesn’t prefer an email or text alert in real time? No dashboard to stare at waiting for risk to strike.

But then, the CISO-types don’t like getting more email or texts. So, we’re back “to dashboard.”

Just like Shakespeare could not be conclusive, our RAPTOR™ AI preemptive security customers have also pondered over these dilemmas.

So, we’ve decided “to be” and “not to be.” We started with real time email and text notices of red risk alerts. We’ve now added wonderful dashboards.

Traditional DLP (Data Leak Prevention) gateways provide an outer perimeter for an organization to make decisions based on message or document content or other criteria. The software decision is typically, content permitted to send and thus permit the send, or content not permitted to send and thus block the send.

However, there are many situations where the traditional DLP filter needs to permit the send of sensitive information for the purpose of normal business operations. 

But what if the sender is tricked into sending to an email address that looks like the intended one but is trickily one character off; or perhaps the sender is sending to a Gmail address and mistypes one character. Or further, perhaps the recipient address is correct yet there is a cybercriminal or corporate espionage agent looking at the recipient (compromised) email account content?

There are situations where one is better served with an AI service that will identify all these things (and more) and pre-emptively trap the message out in the ether on route to the impersonated or unintended or intended compromised recipient.

Double DLP™ AI operates in the ether outside of one’s endpoint perimeter and makes decisions to “delivery pause” or “auto lock” content to preemptively un leak otherwise sensitive content leaks. 

When your content is un-leaked – paused from delivery – you get an email alert (to be!) and additionally a dashboard to drill down to see the risk trigger (to be!). The best of both.

Join a 25-minute webinar demo on Friday, August 1 at 11am PT // 2pm ET to see RPost’s RAPTOR AI and Double DLP AI cybersecurity in action, to see cybercriminal recon outside of endpoints and un leak mis sends or sleeper cell leaks. These are part of RPost’s PRE Crime solution for which Gartner named RPost a visionary.

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