Data loss prevention (DLP) is a set of practices (and products) that ensure that an organization’s sensitive or critical data remains available to authorized users and isn’t shared with or available to unauthorized users. 2019 was deemed the “worst year on record for breaches,” with the number of records being exposed numbering in the billions. IBM pegged the average cost of a data breach at $3.92 million. DLP tools have the added benefit of giving you a big-picture look into your own data infrastructure.”]