Data Loss Prevention Solutions Must Continuously Adapt
Data loss prevention (DLP) solutions must adapt to an increasing variety of data-sharing methods and cloud services, which can complicate the visibility and control of data as it moves across various environments. Furthermore, evolving cyber threats, such as insider threats and sophisticated external attacks, require data loss measures to continuously adapt and improve to detect and respond effectively.
Data loss has become a recurring theme, with organizations across the globe averaging as many as 15 data loss incidents a year. And with most organizations having experienced at least one data loss incident in the past 12 months, the need for improvements in data security and data loss prevention measures has never been greater.1
Improve Data Security with Automated Security Validation
Malicious insider threats and external threat actors pose a significant risk to company data. Data loss prevention solutions are designed to protect against both malicious and unintentional data exfiltration. As such, data security owners need to constantly validate the effectiveness of their data loss prevention measures to stop sensitive and confidential information from falling into the wrong hands.
With breach and attack simulation, Cymulate provides automated security validation that tests and validates data security controls using the methods a threat actor could use to transport data from the network and clouds. The best practice assessment simulates diverse types of exfiltration methods and data transport protocols, including:
Email
Browsers (HTTP/HTTPS)
Network protocols (Telnet, SFTP, TCP)
DNS & DNS tunneling
ICMP tunneling
Cloud-hosted services and storage
Removable devices
Collaboration apps (Teams, Slack, GitHub, etc.)
The results of these assessments highlight the gaps and weaknesses in data exfiltration that could be used to send sensitive or classified information outside of your network.
Cymulate is helping us validate our security controls comprehensively and realistically from both internal and external threats.”
– IT Security & Risk Management, Telecom Industry
Data Loss Prevention Validation Solution Brief
Learn how Cymulate provides automated security validation that tests and validates data security controls using the methods a threat actor could use to transport data from the network and clouds.
Automated Security Validation for Your Network Security Controls
The Cymulate Exposure Management Platform includes breach and attack simulation to automate production-safe security assessments of your data loss prevention measures using a wide range of exfiltration methods. Once the assessment is initiated, Cymulate attempts to exfiltrate information using all the combinations of data types and exfiltration methods defined in the test template. The data sets will be embedded in many different files, including office documents, images and other file types.
The assessment identifies gaps and weaknesses in your data loss prevention solutions where data was successfully exfiltrated from your environment. The output of the assessment enables you to optimize your investment in data loss prevention by configuring and tuning your data security solutions with mitigation guidance from Cymulate.
Detailed Report and Findings
Gain deep insight into the effectiveness of your data loss prevention measures with detailed reports and findings that include:
Risk score to measure the overall performance of your data loss solutions
Exposure level to measure your security posture
Exfiltration ratio highlighting the number of test executions that successfully exfiltrated data
Ratio by attack type to focus efforts on least protected data exfiltration methods
Least protected to highlight which attack types, phrases and data classifications are least protected
Mitigation guidance to help optimize data loss solutions and enhance policies
Why Choose Cymulate?
Depth of attack simulations
The assessment contains a comprehensive suite of over 5,800 test executions to fully validate the effectiveness of your data loss prevention solutions.
Production safe
The full suite of Cymulate test cases is completely production-safe with no sensitive or confidential information ever leaving your production environment.
Automated validation
The assessment is fully automated enabling continuous validation and performance optimization of your data loss prevention solution effectiveness every week.
