Data Loss Prevention Assessment
Most organisations buy DLP, configure it once, and never test it. Pentiq tests whether your DLP tooling is configured effectively, validates whether sensitive-data controls operate as intended, and identifies gaps in data-protection coverage - using controlled, benign exfiltration attempts across email, USB, cloud drives, and forwarding rules.
What we test
Test whether your DLP works the way you think it does.
Data-flow mapping across email, endpoints, SaaS, and cloud storage; classification scheme effectiveness; control efficacy through controlled benign-payload tests; endpoint DLP agents, CASB integrations, and shadow-IT discovery tooling.
Why it matters
The pressure this service answers.
If your DLP isn't tested, it's a checkbox. If it's tested and tuned, it's a control. The difference shows up the day someone tries to exfiltrate something real.
Testing activities
Manual, reproducible, peer-reviewed.
Every engagement is scoped through a formal Rules of Engagement, delivered by an in-house Pentiq consultant, peer-reviewed by a senior tester, and risk-rated using CVSS 4.0 where applicable.
- Data-flow mapping across email, endpoints, SaaS, and cloud storage
- Policy and classification review
- Control-efficacy testing with benign test strings
- Endpoint and CASB assessment, including shadow-IT discovery
- Board-level KPI recommendations for ongoing measurement
Methodologies & frameworks
The standards behind every report.
Every report aligns to the methodologies and frameworks your assessors, customers, and insurers already recognise, so findings are defensible, reproducible, and easy to validate.
- CREST Security-Audit methodology
- ISO 27002 (2022) data-protection controls
- NIST Privacy Framework and Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles
- Gartner DLP maturity model
Outcomes
What you walk away with.
- Validates the effectiveness of existing DLP tooling and processes
- Highlights quick-win configuration changes for immediate risk reduction
- Strategic roadmap for long-term data-protection maturity
- Supports GDPR, PCI DSS, and sector-specific data-handling regulations
Often paired with
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Cloud Security
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Threat Discovery (OSINT)
OSINT and dark-web reconnaissance - exposed assets, leaked credentials, brand impersonation, and chatter.
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Talk to Pentiq about data loss prevention.
Most enquiries get a same working day response from a Pentiq consultant. We'll scope honestly and tell you when an alternative service is the right answer.