Data are all electronic records in an organization. For Data Loss Prevention, the focus is on sensitive data.
This includes:
- personally Identifiable Information (PII) for employees, consumers, customers, and partners;
- personal Health Information (PHI) of employees, patients, clients, and others;
- payment card information subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS),
- non-public financial information, and
- the organization’s intellectual property, including source code, trade secrets, patent applications, customer lists, and other data valued by competitors and criminals.
