DLP Selector Tool

Five OEMs side by side: Symantec DLP 26.1 with CloudSOC, Forcepoint DLP 10.4 with Data Security Cloud and DSPM, Netskope One, Proofpoint Enterprise DLP, ITM and DSPM, and Fortra (Digital Guardian, Clearswift, Data Classification and DSPM).

Official sources only: every product, capability rating, hardware requirement, capacity figure, port and best practice was collected from the vendor's own website and documentation, and each one links to its source. Anything that could not be verified is listed separately and never used as a fact.

Requirements come from the estate itself: macOS endpoints make a macOS agent a must-have, Microsoft 365 mail makes cloud email DLP one, AWS accounts make AWS DSPM one, and an on-premises preference makes an on-premises console one. You rate the rest — EDM, fingerprinting, OCR, ML, risk-adaptive protection, labelling, SIEM and more.

A weighted fit score for every OEM, broken down by area — endpoint, email, web and network, cloud and GenAI, data at rest, DSPM, detection, protection, operations and deployment — with the evidence and source behind every rating.

Ranking puts the vendor with the fewest must-have gaps first, so a product that is excellent on average but cannot do one thing you must have never wins on its average.

Each vendor is sized with its own published rules: Symantec's small, medium and large tiers and per-server throughput, Forcepoint's endpoints per DLP server and users per protector, Netskope's Cloud Exchange and DSPM sidecar capacity, Proofpoint's ITM concurrent-user tiers and Fortra's Clearswift gateway figures.

Workload is grown to the end of the term: endpoint agents, mail in the busiest hour, web bandwidth, terabytes to scan and the scan rate needed, cloud accounts, incidents per day and incident storage — every step written out.

High availability adds N+1 and a DR site adds a standby set, and where a vendor publishes no figure the tool says so and uses a clearly labelled planning assumption.

A logical architecture diagram — channels, the component that inspects each one, the policy and incident plane, and the integrations — and an implementation diagram placing every component, with quantity and specification, in its network zone with the ports the vendor documents.

Real Office files: a full Word design document, a PowerPoint deck with editable tables and both diagrams, and an Excel workbook with an all-OEM sizing sheet that shows every vendor's bill of materials side by side.

Policy starting points for Saudi PDPL, NCA ECC, SAMA CSF, UAE PDPL, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and SOX.