“DLP: Didn’t Live uP” “Legacy DLP fell short but DSPM can help it live up to its promise

Abstract:

For nearly two decades, traditional Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools have promised airtight protection against data leakage. Yet for many organizations, the reality has been far less inspiring: high false-positive rates, brittle policies, excessive operational overhead, and limited visibility into where sensitive data truly lives. As a result, legacy DLP has often failed to deliver on its core mission—protecting sensitive data without slowing the business down.

This session explores why legacy DLP fell short and how the rise of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) provides the missing foundation DLP always needed. DSPM brings continuous, granular data discovery and classification, contextual understanding of data movement, and real-time risk insights that turn DLP from a reactive policy engine into a truly intelligent, proactive control. We’ll examine real-world use cases showing how DSPM strengthens DLP accuracy, reduces false positives, and enables enforcement that aligns with how organizations actually use data today.

Attendees will walk away with a clear understanding of why DLP didn’t live up to its promise—and how combining it with DSPM finally helps organizations achieve the outcome they were promised all along: meaningful, scalable, and context-aware data protection.