{"id":22176,"date":"2024-07-25T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivaluegroup.com\/en-in\/?p=22176"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:41:57","slug":"simplifying-compliance-pre-defined-dlp-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivaluegroup.com\/en-in\/resources\/blogs\/simplifying-compliance-pre-defined-dlp-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying Compliance with Pre-defined DLP Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Complex Landscape of Data Protection Laws<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re probably reading this because you\u2019re considering whether to adopt a DLP solution for your organization. But what\u2019s the primary objective behind it? To safeguard your data across all the networks and mediums it resides in? To avoid data breaches, and mitigate impact should one occur? Whatever it is, chances are that adherence to compliance <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">probably <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">won\u2019t be your top priority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an organization planning to expand internationally, navigating the complex landscape of data protection laws is crucial. Imagine you&#8217;re headquartered in India, where the<a href=\"https:\/\/ivaluegroup.com\/en-in\/resources\/blogs\/the-dpdp-act-what-you-need-to-know\/\"> Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA)<\/a> already impacts your operations. Now, as you set your sights on European countries like Germany and Switzerland, you&#8217;ll immediately face continental laws such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nis-2-directive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIS2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gdpr-info.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GDPR<\/a>, with the latter imposing potential fines of up to 20 million euros or 4% of your annual revenue. But that&#8217;s not all &#8211; each country has its own specific regulations, like Germany&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/dl\/en\/pages\/legal\/articles\/telekommunikation-telemedien-datenschutz-gesetz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telecommunications &amp; Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG)<\/a> and Switzerland&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Federal Act on Data Protection (<\/span>nFADP).<\/p>\n<p>The regulatory maze doesn&#8217;t end there. Beyond national laws, you&#8217;ll need to consider industry-specific regulations. Healthcare companies must adhere to Health Insurance Portability &amp; Accountability Act (HIPAA), publicly owned firms need to follow <a href=\"https:\/\/sarbanes-oxley-act.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarbanes Oxley Act (<\/span>SOX)<\/a>, and e-commerce businesses can&#8217;t ignore <a href=\"https:\/\/ivaluegroup.com\/en-in\/solutions\/digital-asset-protection\/information-rights-management-irm\/\">PCI DSS<\/a>. This global patchwork of regulations creates a complex challenge for any organization operating across borders, making it essential to stay informed and compliant to avoid potentially devastating consequences.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exhausting, right? It can get like that while thinking about compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But bear this in mind: more data regulations are being made because customers are getting more concerned about organizations holding their sensitive data.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">81% of users say potential risks they face from companies collecting their data far outweighs the benefits. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2019\/11\/15\/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fear is justified, because personal customer information (name, email, password) is included in 44% of data breaches. (<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/2021-07-28-IBM-Report-Cost-of-a-Data-Breach-Hits-Record-High-During-Pandemic#:~:text=Compromised%20credentials%20led%20to%20compromised,including%20this%20type%20of%20data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBM<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, 75% of Americans believe there should be <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">regulations to protect their privacy. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2019\/11\/15\/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-about-privacy-surveillance-and-data-sharing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, adherence is beneficial for companies, because organizations with high levels of non-compliance paid 12.6% more on average when breached. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/products\/qradar-siem\/compliance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBM<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Rethinking Compliance<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The truth is, non-compliance leads to financial penalties and long-term reputational damage. But here\u2019s the secret to making it work: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">don\u2019t think of compliance as a challenge.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If one of your main goals is to keep your sensitive customer data safe by any means necessary, compliance will go hand-in-hand with this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the key to making all this work is incorporating a fully optimized data loss prevention (DLP) solution. An ideal one has several core capabilities:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discovery: Having a general overarching view of your data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Classification: Accurately and efficiently categorizing all your data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prioritization: Identifying your most sensitive data and crafting strategies to secure it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitoring: Constantly checking on all the data interactions your users are having.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Response: Quick identification and remediation, should a breach occur.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compliance: Adhering to all the relevant regulations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of these capabilities have a starting point: a policy. At the heart of a great DLP solution is its policies. A policy is a set of conditions that determine how users interact with your data. A properly configured policy can restrict access, block certain actions and, in relevance to this blog, take into consideration factors like country, industry and device to comply with all the data privacy laws you need to follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But earlier, policies weren\u2019t popular. They had to be done manually, and become a very time-intensive activity. Additionally, they were hard to translate and apply onto your third party vendors, and that became a real pain point. Research by <a href=\"https:\/\/securityscorecard.com\/company\/press\/securityscorecard-research-shows-98-of-organizations-globally-have-relationships-with-at-least-one-breached-third-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyenthia<\/a> claims 98% of respondents had at least one third party partner who suffered a breach in the last 2 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus began a trend. In 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/practicalcompliance.thomsonreuters.com\/Link\/Document\/Blob\/I47eedce10aec11ee8921fbef1a541940.pdf?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=(sc.Default)&amp;firstPage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">38% of organizations<\/a> outsourced some or all of their compliance functionality, up from 30% in 2022. And if that\u2019s something you are also planning to do, our Forcepoint DLP solution is the industry standard. For its pre-defined security policies, it has over 1,700+ out-of-the-box classifiers and templates that enable you to adhere to local privacy laws in 150+ regions based on the location you set your policy in. There are pre-defined policies for CCPA, for DPDPA and you can also achieve all aspects for compliance with GDPR using Forcepoint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Effective automation through AI &amp; ML have stopped making it a time-intensive process, while easy configuration and extension of the policy allow security to be uniform throughout your organization, including for the third parties you decide to work with.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Building a Compliant DLP Policy: 7 Steps<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how do you successfully build a policy that adheres to a certain regulation? Our DLP does it in 7 succinct steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 1:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Discovery &amp; Classification of Data<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using AI &amp; ML tools, we scour your entire ecosystem and get complete data visibility. Once that is achieved, we classify it all based on sensitivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 2: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identify the correct policy level<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find the relevant policy level for the company-wide protection measure you are about to implement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 3:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Start a policy either from scratch or our pre-defined templates<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All our policies have rules to auto-propagate based on the specific local and industry regulations. This is enriched by all the groundwork we have conducted in\u00a0 these regions and industries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 4: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Name the policy and add conditions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conditions are also called classifiers, and a few examples of our classifiers are file labeling, fingerprinting, patterns &amp; phrases, email details, etc. The DLP policy will trigger once any of these classifiers are met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 5:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fix a resulting action to each classifier<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every time a classifier is met in daily operations, an incident is created. Here is where you attach a specific action to each incident based on its severity, whether it is auditing, blocking, coaching or no action at all. Additionally, incorporating risk-adaptive protection (RAP) in your DLP will help contextualize the actions and provide a more concise response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 6:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Identify sources to monitor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources include users, networks, business units, domains and custom computers. Additionally, policies can be configured to have different actions based on the location of the user. For example, a response to classifier can be a certain one if the user is on the network, and another one if the user is off it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 7: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Determine destinations to monitor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This includes email, endpoint, network, cloud and web &#8211; multiple DLPs combined into one efficient whole. You can read more about the types of DLPs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there you have it! In a very short amount of time, you\u2019d have created a policy that completely adheres to its corresponding regulatory requirement. Suddenly, compliance doesn\u2019t seem all that overbearing. Additionally, once you\u2019ve configured a policy, you can apply them everywhere in a few clicks. For example, an endpoint DLP policy can be extended to the cloud in minimal time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that\u2019s the secret to dealing with compliance. It starts by not seeing it as a hindrance, but as an initiative to uphold the security &amp; integrity of all your organizational data. Regulatory compliance frameworks safeguard your customers\u2019 privacy and prevent their data from falling into the wrong hands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incorporating a DLP like ours, that perfectly combines data protection with regulatory adherence, is the first step to streamlining compliance for your organization. So, click <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to master your DLP compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complex Landscape of Data Protection Laws You\u2019re probably reading this because you\u2019re considering whether to adopt a DLP solution for your organization. But what\u2019s the primary objective behind it? To safeguard your data across all the networks and mediums it resides in? To avoid data breaches, and mitigate impact should one occur? 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