Data Leakage Prevention System: A Systematic Report

Abstract

Technology is growing exponentially and in the fast growing technology more fast processing devices are being introduced. A mobile phone could even handle high processing software and even a small SD card could store the complete data of an organization. In this fast growing it environment maintaining security of data is highly important as a small loss of data might create critical impact in the organization, hence preventing their sensitive data became a greatest challenge. Traditionally organisation implemented methods like framing policies in an organization, implementing Firewall, virtual private network at the endpoints, but still these method started lagging as the technology developed the methodology of data leakage and data theft also attained heights. Hence there was a need for some system which could prevent leakage of data and this could be done with the help of Data Leakage Prevention system (DLPs). The DLPs are capable of detect leakage in Data at any states namely Data in rest, Data in transit and Data in use which increases the need of the DLPs.This paper briefly explains about the carious DLPs available, their limitations, providing the information about the gaps in security providing enough awareness on new developers as well as researchers and professionals for developing a next generation DLP which is capable of preventing data loss.