Data Leakage/Loss Prevention Systems (DLP)

Sensitive and confidential data are a requisite for most companies, so protection for this data takes great attention by company's top management, administrators and IT managers. Data leakage causes negative impact on companies. The traditional security approaches, such as firewalls, can't protect data from leakage. Data leakage/loss prevention (DLP) systems are solutions that protect sensitive data from being in non-trusted hands. This paper is an attempt to survey and study DLP systems that will be conducted as well as a comparison with other security and data protection approaches.