Data Leak Protection (DLP) policies in Zaperon help organizations detect and prevent the leakage of sensitive data across applications, endpoints, and corporate email communications. Using DLP policies, administrators can define inspection rules based on data dictionaries, file types, activity types, and email content patterns, and take enforcement actions such as Log or Block when sensitive data is detected.
DLP policies in Zaperon provide visibility and control over how critical information such as financial data, personal identity information, health records, and regulated content is accessed, shared, transferred, or transmitted across the organization, helping security teams reduce data exposure risk without disrupting legitimate business workflows.
With Zaperon's unified DLP platform, administrators can enforce data protection controls across two distinct policy types. Application DLP monitors and controls sensitive data movement across applications and endpoints including file uploads, transfers, and endpoint activity. Email DLP inspects corporate email communications including email subject lines, body content, and attachments to detect and prevent sensitive data from being transmitted through email channels without authorization.
Zaperon's DLP engine supports AI-powered content inspection and pattern-based detection through custom data dictionaries, enabling organizations to accurately identify sensitive data across files, images, documents, and email content using exact data match and confidence-level-based detection logic. This reduces false positives and strengthens overall data protection enforcement across the organization.
For organizations in regulated industries such as Finance, Healthcare, and Legal, Zaperon's DLP policies provide the granular, tamper-proof enforcement controls needed to meet data protection mandates including GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, RBI, and SEBI. DLP policies ensure that sensitive data cannot leave the organization through unauthorized channels, and every policy match event is logged and available in the Data Leak Report for audit and investigation.
DLP policy management also integrates with Zaperon's storage and notification infrastructure through DLP Settings, allowing organizations to configure secure storage destinations for intercepted content and real-time email notification delivery when policy conditions are triggered.
This section explains how to create, manage, and enforce Data Leak Protection policies across applications, endpoints, and email in Zaperon.
Create an Application DLP Policy – Create an Application Data Leak Protection policies to detect or block sensitive data movement across applications using data dictionaries, file types, and activity rules.
Create an Email DLP Policy – Create an Email Data Leak Protection policies to detect or block sensitive data movement across emails using data dictionaries, file types, and activity rules.
Edit a DLP Policy – Modify existing DLP policies to update conditions, actions, or assigned user groups as security requirements evolve.
Enable/Disable DLP Policy – Temporarily enable or disable DLP policies without deleting them—useful for testing, troubleshooting, or phased rollouts.
Delete DLP Policy – Permanently remove DLP policies that are no longer required to keep policy management clean and organized.
Apply DLP Policy to Group – Apply DLP policies to specific user groups to enforce role-based or department-specific data protection controls.
Add DLP Data Dictionary – Create custom data dictionaries to detect sensitive information using exact data match or pattern-based detection.
Edit DLP Data Dictionary – Update existing data dictionaries to refine detection logic, confidence levels, or dictionary types.
Delete DLP Data Dictionary – Remove data dictionaries that are no longer required or were created for testing purposes.
Configure DLP Settings – Set up storage destinations for saving monitored files and configure email notification preferences to receive alerts regarding data leak incidents.
What is Data Leak Protection (DLP) in Zaperon?
Data Leak Prevention in Zaperon is a set of policies that monitor and control how sensitive data is accessed, transferred, and transmitted across applications, endpoints, and corporate email. DLP policies detect policy violations based on data dictionaries, file types, and content inspection rules, and enforce Log or Block actions to prevent unauthorized data movement.
What Types of DLP Policies Does Zaperon Support?
Zaperon supports two types of DLP policies, each targeting a distinct data movement channel:
Application DLP monitors and controls how sensitive data is handled across applications and endpoints. It inspects file transfers, uploads, downloads, and endpoint activity based on data dictionaries, file types, and activity rules, enforcing Log or Block actions when a policy condition is matched.
Email DLP inspects corporate email communications in real time, scanning email subject lines, body content, and attachments for sensitive data patterns. It controls inbound and outbound email traffic based on data dictionary matches, content inspection rules, and email direction conditions, preventing sensitive data from being transmitted through email without authorization.
Together, Application DLP and Email DLP provide comprehensive data protection coverage across every major channel through which sensitive organizational data can be exfiltrated or mishandled.
How Does Zaperon Detect Sensitive Data in DLP Policies?
Zaperon uses a combination of data dictionaries, file type rules, activity type conditions, and AI-powered content inspection to accurately identify sensitive data across applications, endpoints, and email communications.
Data dictionaries allow administrators to define exact data match patterns or confidence-level-based detection logic for specific types of sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passport numbers, mobile numbers, GDPR-protected data, and custom organizational identifiers. Dictionaries can be configured with Low, Medium, or High confidence levels to balance detection sensitivity against false positive risk.
For Email DLP, Zaperon's content inspection engine scans both email subject lines and body content as well as email attachments, using the configured data dictionary patterns and match conditions to identify policy violations before they result in unauthorized data transmission.
What is the difference between Application DLP and Email DLP in Zaperon?
Application DLP monitors sensitive data movement across applications and endpoints including file uploads, downloads, and transfers. Email DLP inspects corporate email communications including subject lines, body content, and attachments to detect and block sensitive data being transmitted through email channels. Both policy types use data dictionaries and enforcement actions but target different data movement channels.
How does Zaperon inspect email content for sensitive data?
Zaperon's Email DLP engine inspects email subject lines, body content, and attachments in real time using configured data dictionary patterns and match conditions. Administrators can enable inspection for email subject and body content, email attachments, or both, and define direction-based rules to control inbound and outbound email traffic based on content sensitivity.
What are DLP Data Dictionaries in Zaperon?
DLP Data Dictionaries are custom detection libraries that define what sensitive data looks like so Zaperon can accurately identify and act on it during policy enforcement. Dictionaries can use exact data match or pattern-based detection logic and support confidence level configuration including Low, Medium, and High to balance detection accuracy against false positive risk.
Can DLP policies be applied to specific user groups in Zaperon?
Yes. DLP policies in Zaperon can be applied to specific user groups, enabling role-based and department-specific data protection controls. This ensures that enforcement is proportionate to each group's data access requirements and the sensitivity of the data they work with.
Where is intercepted DLP content stored in Zaperon?
Intercepted DLP content is stored in the storage destination configured under DLP Settings. Zaperon supports AWS S3 Bucket and OneDrive as storage destinations, giving organizations the flexibility to use their existing cloud infrastructure as the secure destination for flagged DLP content.
How do I get notified when a DLP policy is triggered in Zaperon?
Zaperon sends email notifications through a configured SMTP relay when a DLP policy condition is matched. The relay URL is configured under the Email Configuration tab in DLP Settings. All DLP events are also logged and available in the Data Leak Report for review and investigation.