ENTERPRISE DLP
Close critical visibility gaps, stop data loss across channels, and streamline incident response.
UNIFIED DATA PROTECTION
Sensitive data must be secure wherever it moves across email, cloud apps, endpoints, and AI tools. Proofpoint Enterprise DLP combines data visibility with user behavior insight to identify risk and prevent data loss. By bringing together detection, policy enforcement, and incident response, you can pinpoint risk earlier, protect sensitive data, and respond faster, without adding complexity.
Gain visibility into how users interact with sensitive data, so you can identify risk earlier and respond with confidence.
Protect sensitive data across email, cloud apps, and endpoints. Investigate and respond in a single console.
Deploy quickly, apply consistent policies, and manage DLP programs without added overhead.
Cross-Channel Protection
Proofpoint Enterprise DLP helps you protect sensitive data across email, cloud apps, endpoints, and GenAI tools. It combines data detection with user behavior insight to identify risky activity and stop unauthorized sharing before it leads to a data breach. Unified cross-channel visibility lets you enforce consistent DLP policies, adapt risk-based controls, and protect data without slowing operations.
Features
Unified Data Visibility
Identify sensitive data across structured and unstructured sources, including files, images, and cloud content.
User Activity Monitoring
Track file movement, uploads, downloads, and application usage across endpoints and cloud apps.
Endpoint and Exfiltration Controls
Monitor and control USB transfers, web uploads, and other common exfiltration and data leak paths.
Adaptive Policy Enforcement
Apply dynamic DLP policies based on data sensitivity, user risk, and activity context.
GenAI Data Protection
Detect and control sensitive data shared in GenAI prompts and uploads, including unsanctioned tools.
Incident Response
Get a unified view of alerts, user activity, and data movement across all channels. Connecting sensitive data with user behavior enables your security team to quickly understand what happened and where the risk is. With centralized workflows and built-in context, you can reduce manual effort, speed up response, and resolve data loss incidents with greater accuracy.
Triage and investigate alerts from email, cloud, and endpoints in one place.
Understand user intent with context on actions, file changes, access patterns, and data movement.
Analyze activity and data flows across systems to identify potential data exfiltration and insider risk.
Automate workflows, reduce manual effort, and support large enterprise environments.
Integrate with Microsoft, Okta, Splunk, and ServiceNow to extend visibility and streamline response.
Modern DLP strategies combine people, process, and technology. For more than 20 years, we’ve helped organizations design, operate, and evolve their data security programs. Our technology-enabled service model gives you access to deep expertise and efficiencies that are hard to match.
Learn how to accelerate time to value and mature your DLP program with our expert services.
Why Proofpoint
| Capabilities | Traditional DLP | Proofpoint DLP |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-channel protection | Protects individual channels with separate tools and fragmented management | Protects sensitive data across email, cloud apps, endpoints, and GenAI with unified visibility and policy enforcement |
| User risk context | Focuses primarily on content and events with limited user behavior context | Combines sensitive data detection with user behavior insights to prioritize risk and improve response |
| AI data protection | Provides limited visibility and control for modern GenAI workflows | Detects and controls sensitive data in GenAI prompts, uploads, and supported AI services |
| Unified policies | Requires separate policy management across multiple tools and consoles | Applies consistent policies and data classifiers across channels from a single platform |
| Incident investigation | Requires analysts to piece together activity across multiple consoles | Correlates alerts, user activity, and data movement in a single workbench to speed investigations |
| Adaptive protection | Relies primarily on static policies that require ongoing manual tuning | Adjusts controls based on data sensitivity, user risk, and activity context to reduce unnecessary friction |
| Operational efficiency | Increases operational overhead through siloed tools and disconnected workflows | Simplifies administration with unified management, centralized workflows, and integrated response |
Industry Recognition
Organizations that use Proofpoint Enterprise DLP reduce risk, streamline administration, and achieve high ROI compared with competing solutions.
Customer Stories
"Security is not just about restricting access; security is about providing the right access to the right resource at the right time ... Proofpoint comes in and helps us with mitigating those types of risks."
Bhargava Ghorty
Sr. Dir., Application Security & Data Protection, Columbia University
"Proofpoint provides us with pre-built libraries and the ability to create rules around them to align to our processes and safely handle customer data."
Nick Janich
Security Engineer, Avant
"It made a lot of sense for us to use email DLP, as well as endpoint DLP as everything integrates into a single environment."
Assistant Dir. of ICT Services
Multi-Campus University
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Enterprise DLP solutions prevent data breaches by identifying sensitive data and controlling how it is accessed, shared, and transferred across email, cloud apps, and endpoints. They use data classification, user behavior analysis, and policy enforcement to detect risky activity and block unauthorized actions before data is exposed or stolen. By protecting data in motion, at rest, and in use, enterprise DLP helps security teams reduce risk and stop data loss before it becomes a security incident.
Enterprise DLP solutions help prevent both accidental data loss and insider-driven data exfiltration. They detect risky activity from careless, compromised, or malicious users by combining sensitive data detection with user behavior analysis. This helps security teams identify misuse early and prevent sensitive data from being exposed or stolen.
Yes. Proofpoint Enterprise DLP helps protect sensitive data across Microsoft 365 cloud services, including Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint. It can classify sensitive data, apply DLP policies, and support remediation across cloud apps. This gives security teams visibility into risky sharing, overexposed data, and access issues that increase the risk of data loss.
Yes. Proofpoint Enterprise DLP helps prevent sensitive data exposure in generative AI tools, including prompts, uploads, and responses. It detects sensitive data in real time and applies controls based on data sensitivity, user risk, and whether a tool is approved or unsanctioned. This allows organizations to support AI adoption while protecting against data leaks and exfiltration.
Proofpoint Enterprise DLP provides unified data loss prevention across email, cloud apps, and endpoints in a single platform. It combines sensitive data detection with user behavior insight, so you can understand who is taking a risky action, what data is involved, and how to respond. Compared with Microsoft Purview DLP, Proofpoint Enterprise DLP reduces tool sprawl and gives security teams broader cross-channel visibility and more consistent control.
