An organization recently suffered a breach due to a human resources administrator emailing employee names and Social Security numbers to a distribution list. Which of the following tools would help mitigate this risk from recurring?
An organization recently suffered a breach due to a human resources administrator emailing employee names and Social Security numbers to a distribution list. Which of the following tools would help mitigate this risk from recurring?
Data loss prevention (DLP) is designed to detect and prevent the unauthorized transmission of sensitive information. In this scenario, a DLP tool would scan outgoing emails for sensitive data such as employee names and Social Security numbers, and prevent them from being sent to unauthorized recipients, thereby mitigating the risk of such breaches.
The answer is A. Data loss prevention (DLP). In this case, a DLP solution could be used to prevent the human resources administrator from emailing employee names and Social Security numbers to a distribution list. The DLP solution would scan the email for sensitive data and block the email from being sent if it contains sensitive data.