Question

A user attempts to send an email to an external domain and quickly receives a bounce-back message. The user then contacts the help desk stating the message is important and needs to be delivered immediately. While digging through the email logs, a systems administrator finds the email and bounce-back details: Your email has been rejected because It appears to contain SSN Information. Sending SSN information via email external recipients violates company policy. Which of the following technologies successfully stopped the email from being sent?

a. DLP
b. UTM
c. WAF
d. DEP

Answer 1

1. DLP (Data Loss Prevention)

Step-by-step explanation:

DLP tools are meant to protect sensitive information of an organization, by monitoring data transmissions and enforcing previously set policies

UTM means Unified Threat Management. It is a suite of security programs, usually including antivirus, antispam, firewall and others.

WAF stands for Web Application Firewall. It is a specific firewall used to protect web servers by monitoring HTTP traffic.

DEP or Data execution Prevention is a security feature in some operating systems that blocks applications trying to access restricted memory areas.