Symantec Data Loss Prevention vs. Proofpoint Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Symantec’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution discovers, monitors, and protects sensitive data wherever it goes – across cloud apps, endpoints, networks and data centers. With DLP, businesses are able to keep their data safe from accidental, negligent and malicious data loss by company insiders.

Proofpoint Data Loss Prevention protects your organization against data loss that originates with people. In a single console and using a single lightweight agent, Proofpoint includes all the workflows, alert management, and threat hunting capabilities, classification sophistication, reporting, and dashboards that admins need for accurate DLP and insider threat detection. It brings together our solutions for email, cloud, and endpoint DLP. It combines content, behavior, and threat telemetry from these channels to address the full spectrum of people-centric data-loss scenarios.