Data Security 101
FortiDLP
Next-Gen DLP and Insider Risk Management Solution to Anticipate and Prevent Data Theft
Overview: securing data from insider threats and risks
Today’s most valuable currency is data. Whether it’s intellectual property, financial account details, patient records, or customer cardholder information, data must be protected from theft or exposure by threat actors, malicious insiders, and careless or untrained employees.
FortiDLP is a next-generation, AI-enhanced, cloud-native endpoint data loss prevention solution that helps your security team anticipate and prevent data leaks, detect behavior-related insider risks, and train employees on proper cyber hygiene at the point of access to sensitive data including intellectual property—starting from day one. With FortiDLP, your organization gains immediate and full visibility into business data flows and usage across endpoints, cloud drives, SaaS apps and other points of egress, allowing teams to detect high-risk activity across users, stop the exfiltration or leakage of sensitive data, and drive prioritized investigations.
Challenges: Traditional DLP fails to deliver in today’s world
Legacy DLP tools address modern data security challenges with cumbersome data classification and complex static policies before offering any visibility into data loss risks or controls to mitigate them. As a result, data security teams are overburdened by constant policy creation and tuning, inefficient data classification, false positives, and noisy alarms.
FortiDLP overcomes these legacy DLP challenges. FortiDLP baselines individual user behavior (through machine learning embedded in the FortiDLP lightweight agent) and combines localized real-time context and content-level inspection to classify data at the point of access by employees. And unlike legacy solutions, FortiDLP doesn’t require exhaustive data discovery or policy formulation before it can provide actual data protection value.
The approach: A powerful integrated approach to data loss prevention
FortiDLP applies a modern and unified approach to data security, combining data loss prevention, insider risk management, SaaS data security, and risk- informed user education.
FortiDLP provides immediate visibility into data movement and activity across devices and collaboration platforms, empowering organizations to assess risk and enforce DLP and insider risk policies with proactive data security actions in real time.
FortiDLP’s scalable, lightweight agent collects and records data regardless of network connection and location, meaning you get full protection of your employees’ data flows whether they’re in the office, working remotely, or on the road. The result is data protection that doesn’t rely on sending your critical business data to a cloud-based file scanning engine, reducing bandwidth costs and addressing data residency requirements.
Enhanced with Artificial Intelligence
From day one, FortiDLP applies machine learning—integrated into FortiDLP’s agent—to baseline individual user activity and uses behavioral analytics algorithms to detect typical versus novel or anomalous behavior. Additional powerful analysis and analytics capabilities provide insights at an organizational level.
In addition, FortiDLP utilizes FortiAI (AI Assistant) to summarize and contextualize data associated with high-risk activity to accelerate incident analysis. Activities are mapped to MITRE ENGENUITY™ Insider Threat Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) Knowledge Base.
Track data from its origin
Through Secure Data Flow, FortiDLP can also automatically identify and track data based on its origin, such as Workday or a source code repository. DLP and insider risk policies can be enforced based on where the data originated and whether a corporate or non-corporate account was used to egress data.
Highlights
• Integrates Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, SaaS Data Security, and Risk- Informed User Education in a single solution• Is cloud-native, allowing organizations to turn on services and gain visibility into business data flows and risks in minutes• Utilizes lightweight agent technology for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems for seamless deployment and automated updating at enterprise scale• Delivers immediate policy-free visibility into data movement and business processes• Accurately detects Intellectual Property and sensitive data using advanced data classification, data origin, and identity-based data tracking (Secure Data Flow)• Detects and responds to data manipulation and anomalous activity using AI and ML• Monitors SaaS application usage, including Shadow AI tools like Gen-AI• Incorporates risk-informed user education at the point of access of sensitive data• Provides administrators with a fully featured, always up-to-date management console and behavior analytics system to monitor, report, and enable automated actions• Addresses regulatory compliance controls involving data loss prevention with minimal effort using templated PII/PHI/PCI policies• Applies a Privacy-first approach to data protection by: