Security Capabilities With Endpoint DLP Solution to Protect Data

An effective endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) strategy involves identifying and monitoring sensitive data to ensure only authorized users access the data. Endpoint DLP also helps ensure authorized users aren’t unintentionally (or intentionally) putting sensitive data at risk. Endpoint DLP often uses predefined access policies to ensure data can’t leave a set virtual perimeter of your network. 

Endpoint DLP mainly focuses on more vulnerable endpoints, which are likely entry points for bad actors trying to breach data security. Effective strategies also prioritize and monitor the most sensitive data, as this data represents the costliest breaches. 

At the most basic level, endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) software helps organizations protect their data spread across numerous laptops, workstations, and other portable storage locations inside and outside the corporate network. Specifically, software solutions are built to monitor the data on your endpoints and collect activity logs, creating dynamic threat intelligence feeds to help you detect malicious traffic. In these feeds, you can: 

• Check if IPS and IDS systems are detecting symptoms of exfiltration or infections 
• See if anti-malware/antivirus solutions are either cleaning or having trouble cleaning possible infections 
• Understand triggers for other security systems 
• View crash reports and system errors 

A quality endpoint DLP solution can also download dynamic lists of known bad actors (including spammers, botnets, potentially infected hosts, command and control networks, and problematic IP networks) and automatically use this list to detect suspicious communication on your network. 

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) aids data loss prevention (DLP) strategy to help secure some of the most often overlooked points of entry and data breaches. SEM constantly monitors your network and its endpoints, collecting, centralizing, and analyzing your user activity logs so you can get insight into the actions taken by all the users on your network. Thanks to SEM's real-time reporting, you'll know immediately if any of those actions violate your policies. 

One of SEM’s most significant assets is its USB-Defender feature. Endpoint DLP solutions overlook USBs far too often. Because USBs are usually unmonitored or only lightly monitored, they’re one of the easiest ways for bad actors to steal sensitive data. This feature monitors all the USBs on your network for suspicious activity. Plus, if SEM’s active-response technology detects a problem, it can automatically respond to the threat and mitigate the risk before you a chance to investigate it. 

Related tools:

• SolarWinds^® Observability Self-Hosted & Security Observability
• SolarWinds Access Rights Manager

• SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor
• SolarWinds Identity Monitor
• SolarWinds Patch Manager

Related features:

• Data Security Protection (DSP) Compliance
• Information Security Risk Control and Management
• Optimize Cyberthreat Prevention to Strengthen Your Network Security
• Security Information Management
• Security Orchestration And Automation