Protecting against data loss

With the DLP Module, not only can you protect sensitive data from leakage over the Web, but you can also monitor removable media devices, printers, instant messages, copy/paste operations, or email for the such data. To protect against data loss over other channels, in addition to the Web, you can purchase Forcepoint DLP to integrate with Forcepoint Web Security.

Web and data protection interoperate in fundamental ways, giving the data protection software access to user information (collected by User Service) and URL categorization information (from the Forcepoint URL Database).

By combining web and data protection, you can create data loss prevention (DLP) policies that base rules on URL categories. For example, you can define a rule that credit card numbers cannot be posted to known fraud sites. You can also define rules based on users and computers rather than IP addresses. For example, Jane Doe cannot post financial information to FTP sites.

For an end-to-end description of setting up data loss protection over the Web, see the Deployment and Installation Center.

For instructions on creating data security policies, see Help for the Data module of Forcepoint Security Manager.