A company is implementing a DLP solution to prevent data exfiltration. The company's employees frequently work from home and use personal devices to access corporate email. The DLP solution must protect data without disrupting productivity. What is the most effective approach?

Rely on employees to follow a policy that prohibits sending sensitive data to personal accounts.

Deploy DLP agents on all corporate devices and block all USB and cloud uploads.

Use a cloud-based DLP that monitors email and web traffic, and apply policies that block only sensitive data transfers.

Disable remote access to corporate email from personal devices.

What is the primary purpose of data masking in non-production environments?

To reduce the storage space required for non-production databases

To improve the performance of non-production applications

To protect sensitive data from exposure during development, testing, or training

To ensure that non-production data is identical to production data

Which technology is commonly used to encrypt data in transit over a network?

Access control lists (ACLs) on files

AES-256 for full-disk encryption

Which factor is most commonly used to determine the classification level of a data asset?

The impact of unauthorized disclosure or loss

The storage location of the data

Why is data security important for an organization's information assets?

It ensures that data is always available to the public

It eliminates the need for data backup and recovery procedures

It guarantees that data cannot be accessed by any external party

It helps maintain customer trust and comply with legal and regulatory requirements

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A company is implementing a DLP solution to prevent data exfiltration. The company's employees frequently work from home and use personal devices to access corporate email. The DLP solution must protect data without disrupting productivity. What is the most effective approach?
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