From the course: CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) (CAS-004) Cert Prep

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DLP detection

DLP detection

- In this lesson, we're going to discuss, data loss prevention detection techniques that can be used to ensure the security of our enterprise data. Now, there are six main techniques used by DLP systems to detect the data loss based upon rule sets. This includes classification, dictionary, policy templates, exact data match or EDM, document matching and statistical or lexicon. You don't need to be an expert in all six of these techniques, but you should at least have a basic knowledge of what they are. So, we're going to do a quick look at each of them. First, we have classification. Now, classification is the action or process of classifying something according to a shared quality or characteristics. Now, for example, let's say you're in the military. You're used to classifying documents as either unclassified, confidential, secret or top secret. You do this based on the type of data or information contained in that…

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