Whether it’s a diner, fast-food restaurant, or fine dining establishment, items like plates, forks, spoons, glasses, salt and pepper shakers, and even napkin holders often go missing. By the time anyone notices, it’s too late—the culprits are long gone. To combat this, some restaurants switch to disposable items like paper plates, plastic utensils, salt and pepper packets, and paper cups. Others take extreme measures, such as drilling screws through plates to anchor them to tables or chaining utensils to prevent theft. If someone manages to steal a plate secured by a screw, they’ve earned it!

For an IT professional, this scenario mirrors data loss protection (DLP) on steroids. While screwing a hard drive into a desk might technically secure your data, it also renders it inaccessible without special equipment. And as for physically chaining files. Let’s not even go there. Fortunately, DLP acts as the digital chain for your data, giving you visibility into what’s leaving your network and how. Is an employee innocently sharing data with a client? Could a disgruntled worker be forwarding company information to their personal email? Or worse, is a program harvesting and transmitting data through a trusted application like Edge? With DLP, you can monitor, control, and protect your data from wandering off your network—no screws or chains required.

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