Email DLP: Everything You Need to Know

This KnowBe4 whitepaper explains how traditional rule-based email DLP works and why it falls short, and advocates for contextual machine-learning email DLP to reduce accidental or intentional data leaks. It highlights scanning message text and attachments, common DLP actions (prompts, quarantine, encryption), the benefits for compliance and ethical walls, and how intelligent DLP can add context-aware decisions to prevent human error while applying risk-based protections.