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Organizations lose valuable data every day. Learn how to protect your data from human error and deliberate exfiltration.

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10 email mistakes that lead to security incidents
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Sent a confidential email to the wrong address? Here’s what to do.
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What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?
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Intelligent DLP: a better way for investment firms to enforce information barriers

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How law firms can enforce information barriers with intelligent DLP

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Protect against MNPI breaches with information barriers and intelligent DLP
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ICO data shows more incidents from misaddressed emails than phishing
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Video: Stop outbound email data breaches with Egress Prevent
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Is deliberate exfiltration or human error the bigger outbound threat?
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Can outbound data loss be worse than inbound attacks?

Egress Prevent Product Tour

See for yourself how Egress Prevent combines intelligent technologies to detect accidental data loss events and malicious data exfiltration attempts in our two-part tour:

Explore the Admin Console Tour to track email and attachment behavior, monitor user interactions, and mitigate risk with detailed event tracking. Or, try the User Inbox Tour to see how Prevent combines relationship mapping, machine learning and content analysis to prevent data breaches.

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More recent data loss prevention articles

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Can outbound data loss be worse than inbound attacks?
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Egress named as a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
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Are organizations taking outbound risk seriously enough?
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How can machine learning stop email breaches?
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Guide to data loss prevention (DLP) solutions

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DLP has failed you – and here’s what you need to do now
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Six data protection tips for healthcare organisations
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CISO Strategy Guide: Social Engineering in the Age of AI

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Email DLP news and insight

What are information barriers and how do they work?

Egress Prevent: Stop outbound email data breaches

ICO data shows misaddressed emails as leading breach cause

Insights and takeaways from the ICO’s incident dashboard.

The full guide to data loss prevention

What is DLP? What different DLP software is there? Explore this guide.

DLP Report 2021

Find out more about accidental and intentional data loss, and why the risk is higher in 2021

Five reasons you need enhanced email security in Office 365

It’s estimated that 70% of enterprise organisations will move to Office 365 (O365) by 2021.

Has DLP failed you?

DLP solutions are evolving away from static dlp and more into human layer security.

DLP has failed you – and here’s what you need to do now

Legacy DLP solutions have failed to stop data breaches from happening - and you need to understand your alternatives today to prevent your incidents of tomorrow.

Fat finger error: What is it, and how to prevent it

There are few people who have not experienced the sinking feeling caused by making a fat finger error.

Guide to data loss prevention (DLP) solutions

Find out which DLP solutions you need to protect your business from data loss.

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Email DLP

Everyone uses email, making email DLP a vital tool for preventing data breaches. Explore our dedicated email DLP hub.

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BYOD & data exfiltration

The ‘bring your own device’ culture & data exfiltration occurs when a company's data is deliberately compromised.

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TAG Cyber: Reduce human activated risk

TAG Cyber’s latest report explores this imperfect relationship and how it relates to a technology your business uses every day: email.

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2021 Data loss prevention report

With more data being shared comes the increased likelihood of a breach - and with employees burnt out from the pandemic, the risk in 2021 is higher than ever.

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How to recall email and CISO stories

How to recall an email in Gmail

Here’s a quick step-by-step guide on how to recall your Gmail messages after pressing send.

How to recall an email in Outlook

If you use Outlook 2010 or 2013 to manage your email, then follow this simple how-to guide to work out how to pull those emails back from the brink.

CISO stories Solomon Adote State of Delaware

Solomon Adote, Chief Security Officer, State of Delaware, explains the scale of insider breaches in US State Government today.

CISO stories Sujeet Bambawale 7-Eleven

We recently interviewed Sujeet Bambawale, the CISO for 7-Eleven, and asked him about his professional thoughts around misdirected emails.