Protect Your Data.
Wherever It Goes.
Sensitive data moves through email, cloud storage, SaaS platforms, and employee devices — often invisibly. We build the policies, tooling, and internal capability your team needs to manage that risk continuously.
We don't just deploy tooling — we build the policies, processes, and team capability to manage data risk for the long term.
Platforms We Deploy & Manage
DLP Tools We Work With
We're platform-agnostic. We deploy and enable the DLP solution that fits your environment, not the one that pays us the most commission.
Microsoft Purview DLP
Native DLP across M365, Endpoint, and Teams — ideal for Microsoft-centric environments.
Symantec DLP
Enterprise-grade content inspection across network, endpoint, and cloud channels.
Palo Alto Enterprise DLP
Inline DLP integrated with SASE and next-gen firewall infrastructure.
Trellix DLP (formerly McAfee)
Endpoint and network DLP with deep OS-level content awareness.
Forcepoint DLP
Risk-adaptive DLP with behavioural analytics and automated policy enforcement.
Google Workspace DLP
Native DLP controls for Gmail, Drive, and Chat within Google Workspace.
The Plaidnox Difference
Why Enablement Matters as Much as the Technology
Policies are too broad and generate alert fatigue
Exceptions aren’t documented so teams bypass controls
Incident response workflows don’t exist so violations sit unactioned
Staff don’t understand why controls are in place so they find workarounds
Most DLP programmes fail not because the technology doesn't work — but because the organisation around it isn't ready.
Training your security and IT teams to own and operate the programme
Embedding clear governance around policy changes and exceptions
Making sure the people affected by controls understand the reasoning behind them
Building confidence in policies before enforcement begins
The result is a DLP programme that functions accurately, gets stronger over time, and doesn't erode under the day-to-day pressure of a real business.
What We Deploy
DLP Capabilities
Comprehensive data protection across every channel, every environment, and every user.
Data Discovery & Classification
Before you can protect data, you need to know where it is. Our data discovery engine automatically surfaces and classifies sensitive data — PII, PHI, PCI card data, and intellectual property — across endpoints, cloud storage, file shares, databases, and on-premises infrastructure. Most organisations are genuinely surprised by what we find and where. Classification isn’t just a technical output; it becomes the foundation your policies, access controls, and data handling procedures are built upon.
Content Inspection
Surface-level keyword matching catches obvious violations and misses everything else. Our content inspection capability combines regular expression patterns, exact data fingerprinting, document matching, optical character recognition, and ML-based classification to identify sensitive content across structured and unstructured data — including content embedded inside images, PDFs, and compressed archives. The result is detection that is accurate enough to enforce without generating the false positive volumes that cause teams to lose confidence in DLP alerts.
Network DLP
Data in transit is one of the most common and least monitored exfiltration channels. We monitor and control sensitive data moving across your network — outbound email, web uploads, cloud sync tools, SFTP, and file transfer protocols — with inline blocking that prevents exfiltration in real time. During initial deployment, passive monitoring mode allows full visibility without disruption, enabling your team to understand legitimate data flows before enforcement begins.
Endpoint DLP
Endpoint controls enforce data handling policies directly on employee devices, regardless of whether the device is on your network. This means preventing unauthorised copying to USB drives, restricting print activity for sensitive documents, controlling clipboard behaviour, and blocking screen capture of protected content. Policies are context-aware — distinguishing between a legitimate business action and a policy violation — so your team isn’t blocked from doing their jobs while genuine risk is stopped.
Cloud & SaaS DLP
Your data doesn’t stay inside your perimeter — and your DLP controls shouldn’t either. We deploy API-based and inline DLP across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Box, Dropbox, and other SaaS platforms your organisation relies on. Controls travel with users into the cloud, protecting data in collaboration tools, shared drives, and business applications with the same rigour applied to your internal environment.
Incident Management & Response
A DLP programme that generates alerts without a clear response workflow is noise, not protection. Our centralised incident console provides automated triage, manager escalation paths, and full forensic evidence capture — who, what, where, when, and how — for every violation. Automated workflows route incidents to the right people at the right time, and the evidence collected means your security team can investigate quickly and your compliance team has the documentation it needs without having to reconstruct events manually.
Our Approach
DLP Implementation & Enablement
We don't hand over a deployed tool and walk away. We build your organisation's capability to manage data risk for the long term.
Data Risk Assessment
Every engagement starts with understanding — not deploying. We map your sensitive data landscape: where it lives, how it moves between systems and users, which channels present the highest exfiltration risk, and what legitimate data movement looks like in your specific business context. This assessment drives every subsequent decision about policy design, deployment sequencing, and enforcement thresholds. It also produces a standalone deliverable your leadership team can use to understand and communicate data risk across the organisation.
Policy & Classification Design
We work with your team — not just for them — to define a data classification taxonomy that reflects how your business handles information in practice. Sensitivity tiers, labelling standards, and handling requirements are built collaboratively, which means your team understands and owns the framework rather than having it imposed from outside. DLP policies, exception workflows, and escalation paths are designed alongside classification to ensure that legitimate business activity is never caught in controls intended for genuine risk.
Monitor-First Deployment
DLP agents, network sensors, cloud connectors, and email gateways are deployed in monitor-only mode first. This isn’t a precaution — it’s a deliberate methodology. Monitor mode captures real data flows without disrupting operations, identifies false positive patterns before they become user friction, and gives your team genuine evidence of what enforcement would block. No DLP programme should move to enforcement mode without this baseline. We use it to build confidence in the policies before enforcement begins.
Tuning, Enablement & Enforcement Transition
This is where most DLP engagements stall — and where Plaidnox invests the most. Using data from monitor mode, we refine policy thresholds, document legitimate exception categories, and work with your security and IT teams to build the operational knowledge needed to manage the programme going forward. This includes hands-on training for your team on policy management, alert triage, incident response, and exception handling — so when we hand over operational ownership, your team is genuinely prepared to run it. Enforcement is then introduced in a phased rollout, starting with the highest-risk channels.
Governance, Ongoing Operations & Continuous Improvement
A deployed DLP programme requires ongoing attention to stay effective. As your organisation changes — new SaaS tools are adopted, new data types emerge, teams grow or restructure — your DLP policies need to evolve with it. We provide ongoing policy management, monthly incident reporting, quarterly policy reviews, and continuous tuning. More importantly, we work with your team throughout to transfer knowledge progressively, so your organisation becomes less dependent on external support over time, not more. The goal is a DLP programme your team genuinely owns.
Where We Help
DLP Use Cases
Whatever the driver — regulatory obligation, board-level risk appetite, or a specific incident that exposed a gap — we tailor the programme to your context.
PCI-DSS Cardholder Data Protection
Identify and control the flow of payment card data across your environment to meet PCI-DSS requirement 3 and 4 obligations and reduce your cardholder data environment scope.
HIPAA PHI Safeguarding
Enforce controls around the storage, transmission, and handling of Protected Health Information across clinical and administrative systems to meet HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguard requirements.
Intellectual Property Protection
Prevent the exfiltration of source code, product designs, financial models, and proprietary processes — particularly during periods of elevated insider risk such as workforce restructuring or competitive activity.
Insider Threat & Data Exfiltration
Detect and prevent data theft by employees, contractors, and departing staff — including bulk downloads, personal cloud uploads, and USB-based exfiltration — with full forensic evidence capture for investigation and legal proceedings where required.
Cloud Migration Data Controls
Maintain visibility and control over sensitive data during cloud migration projects, where data frequently moves between environments in ways that bypass standard controls.
Email DLP & Encryption Enforcement
Prevent misdirected emails, enforce encryption on sensitive outbound communications, and eliminate the most common channel for accidental data exposure.
GDPR & Privacy Compliance
Enforce data minimisation, purpose limitation, and transfer controls across your environment to support your Article 32 obligations around appropriate technical measures for personal data protection.
M&A Data Isolation & Ring-Fencing
Enforce strict data separation between merging or divesting entities during M&A transactions to prevent premature data commingling, protect deal confidentiality, and manage legal exposure during transition periods.
Deliverables
What You Receive
Data Risk Assessment Report
A documented map of your sensitive data footprint, flow analysis, and prioritised exfiltration risk areas, giving your leadership team a clear and honest baseline before controls are deployed.
Custom Classification Taxonomy
A data classification framework built for your organisation — sensitivity tiers, handling standards, and labelling guidance — that your DLP policies, access controls, and staff awareness programmes are aligned to.
Full Policy Deployment & Documentation
Deployed DLP policies across all in-scope channels, with complete policy documentation covering rules, thresholds, exception categories, escalation paths, and management guidance for your team’s ongoing use.
Team Enablement & Handover
Hands-on training for your security and IT teams covering policy management, incident triage, alert response, exception handling, and quarterly review processes — so your team owns and operates the programme with confidence.
Incident Console & Monthly Reporting
Access to a centralised incident management platform with forensic evidence, automated workflows, and monthly reporting on violation trends, channel risk, and policy performance.
Quarterly Policy Reviews
Structured reviews of your DLP programme every quarter to assess policy accuracy, address new data types or channels, and ensure controls remain aligned to your current business environment.
All documentation and reporting is managed and version-controlled through VETA.plaidnox.com — accessible by your team at any time, with full history retained across every review cycle.
Know Where Your Data Is.
Build the Capability to Protect It.
Most organisations discover their data exposure after something has already gone wrong. A Plaidnox DLP engagement gives your team the visibility, tools, and knowledge to get ahead of that — and stay there.
Start with a free data risk assessment. Walk away with a clear picture of your exposure and a practical roadmap to address it.
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