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Thinking DLP: visibility before the block button

Why the DLP platform started as architecture — insider leakage, USB, clipboard — and what I refused to fake.

The problem I kept seeing

Endpoints leak quietly: files to USB, clipboard paste, a screenshot at the wrong moment. Dashboards that only show “blocked” miss the investigation story.

Design belief

Blocking-first rollouts fail. People turn the agent off. Monitor → alert → block is slower to demo and more honest to operate.

What “enterprise DLP” meant here

Managed Windows endpoints, centralized events, sensitive-data detection, device control, and a dashboard an analyst can actually use.

What I would not invent

Production KPIs, fake customer counts, or “deployed at scale” claims. Architecture + local validation first.