Monitoring and Analysis of Users Using DLP System

The purpose of this masters thesis is to study issues of monitoring and analysis of users using DLP (Data Loss Prevention) system, the definition of internal and external attacks, the description of the main parts of the DLP system, managing of politic, monitoring user activities and classifying the data content. This paper explains the difference between contextual and content analysis and describes their techniques. It shows the fundamentals of network and endpoint monitoring and describes the process and users activities which may cause a data leakage. Lastly, we have developed endpoint protection agent who serves to the monitoring activities at a terminal station