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Data Leak Prevention (DLP) on Fortigate

Today I would like to present one interesting feature you may find on your Fortigate - Data Leak Prevention. I know there are much better, dedicated solutions on the market but in certain situations the DLP feature available on FortiOS is good enough. Why you should use it? This is very important to say: the DLP in such deployment (on Fortigate) can't protect your data against every data leak. Users in your network with his/her mobile can easily take a photo of any document. Why we should still consider it? It is a good (and easy to deploy) method to prevent users' mistakes. It happened hundreds of time when a user attached a wrong file. Sound familiar? Using the DLP you can create policies which stop such leak. Let me show you how you can configure it. Step #1 First, you have to check if DLP is enabled in a "Feature Visibility" and "Security Features" section: When you do not see the feature, make sure your Fortigate works in a proxy-ba