Curtain e-locker
Unique Zone-based DLP

Understanding Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

In today’s digital landscape, companies handle vast amounts of data. Within this data lies sensitive information, such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), intellectual property, business secrets, and surveillance footage.

This presents a critical challenge: How can organizations empower authorized staff to use this data productively while preventing leaks—whether intentional or accidental?

This is the core problem Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is designed to solve.

A DLP solution’s primary objective is to strike the perfect balance between operational convenience and ironclad security. It ensures authorized users can work efficiently while proactively preventing sensitive information from leaving its secure environment.

Introducing Zone-Based DLP: A Smarter Approach

Most traditional DLP tools are Content-Based. They require companies to define sensitive information using keywords or patterns, then scan all outgoing communications (emails, uploads, etc.) for matches. While logical in theory, this approach has a major flaw: false positives.

Imagine an employee sending a routine email to schedule a meeting, which includes a customer’s name and phone number. A content-based DLP, detecting this “PII,” could flag and block the email. This disrupts workflow, frustrates users, and forces IT to handle manual approvals. Over time, this leads to “alert fatigue,” where security teams are forced to disable proactive blocking, reducing the powerful DLP to a mere logging tool.

Curtain e-locker DLP offers a fundamentally different and more effective strategy: Zone-Based DLP.

What is Zone-Based DLP?

Curtain e-locker DLP is a unique Zone-based DLP solution. We take a different approach: instead of scanning content, we empower companies to secure information based on where it is stored.

First, administrators designate the systems and shared folders that contain sensitive data—such as HR department shares, finance servers, ERP/CRM systems, or customer databases. These become controlled sources. Data from these systems can only exist within the sources and a defined set of allowed locations, which we call the Protected Zone.

Users can work within this Protected Zone as usual: accessing data, downloading files, sharing internally, and performing analysis—all without interruption. The key control is automatic: any file/data from a controlled source is confined to the Zone. It cannot be copied out, emailed, or uploaded to unauthorized locations.

This design creates perfect isolation between sensitive corporate information and casual data. Companies gain complete visibility and control, knowing exactly where their critical data resides. Meanwhile, users enjoy unimpeded use of their devices, messaging apps, and the internet for their everyday, non-sensitive tasks.