Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has undergone significant transformations over the years. Initially rooted in reactive measures to prevent data misuse, DLP has evolved to incorporate predictive and automated capabilities powered by AI and machine learning. This evolution enables enterprises to discover and classify sensitive data, identify abnormal patterns, maintain compliance with global regulations, and enhance overall security posture.As organizations adapt to the escalating risk of data breaches, the demand for robust data loss prevention (DLP) solutions has never been higher. IDC defines DLP as the set of technologies and processes designed to discover, monitor, and protect sensitive data from unauthorized access, misuse, or loss. IDC MarketScape for DLP Assessment IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Loss Prevention 2025 Vendor Assessment offers a comprehensive evaluation of nine companies in the DLP space. Its research includes vendor capabilities mapping, case studies, customer interviews, and evaluations of innovation at both strategic and tactical levels. By combining vendor performance insights with market trajectories, the excerpt serves as a benchmark for enterprises looking to enhance their data protection strategies with advanced DLP solutions. This rigorous research methodology provides a detailed analysis of vendor capabilities, offering invaluable insights into the competitive DLP landscape. Recently, the IDC MarketScape released its 2025 Worldwide Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Vendor Assessment, positioning Zscaler as a Leader.IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.Key takeaways from IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DLP 2025 Vendor AssessmentFor technology buyers, the IDC MarketScape assessment offers crucial takeaways. Enterprises are advised to prioritize vendors who concurrently support advanced data discovery, real-time threat prevention, and scalable integration across multi-cloud environments. Seamless deployment, integrations with existing IT ecosystem tools, and advanced reporting and analytics are must-have features for future-proofing data protection strategies. In addition to the excerpt, buyers are especially urged to align DLP investments with zero-trust security principles to ensure that solutions adapt readily to the shifting threat and data loss landscape. Why IDC MarketScape named Zscaler as a DLP LeaderThe IDC MarketScape for DLP 2025 Vendor Assessment named Zscaler as a Leader in the DLP market, citing the following strengths: “Zscaler has a sizeable customer base for its Zero Trust Network products. This gives Zscaler a solid foundation for expanding and growing its data security footprint while offering customers a consolidated experience.”“Customer feedback cited the speed and depth of Zscaler’s customer service and support, as well as the interoperability with other products in the portfolio.”What we believe are Zscaler’s Highlights and StrengthsComprehensive Data Protection Platform: Zscaler’s standout strength lies in its Zscaler Data Protection offering and its leverage of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ architecture. This integrated platform delivers functionalities essential for any contemporary DLP solution: robust data discovery, classification, data security posture management, and proactive mapping of regulatory requirements. Zscaler’s platform ensures complete data channel coverage, identifying sensitive data across various workloads, applications, and endpoints, while deploying real-time security capabilities to prevent unauthorized data exposure.Zero Trust Architecture: Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange aligns with one of the most effective security philosophies, enabling enterprises to eliminate implicit trust and secure interactions over all digital channels.Discovery and Classification: With powerful AI-driven classification complemented by traditional techniques like Regex, IDM, OCR, and EDM, the excerpt highlights the Zscaler platform’s comprehensive discovery capabilities. As a critical foundation for any data protection strategy, robust classification delivers deep visibility across all devices, applications, and locations, enabling organizations to safeguard sensitive data effectivelyIntegrated DSPM: Beyond simple data visibility, Zscaler’s platform extends into Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). This empowers organizations to uphold compliance, automate least-privilege access, and mitigate risks associated with misconfigurations or insider threats with prioritized risk remediation. Zscaler’s DSPM capabilities are currently available as an add-on to its Zscaler AI Data Protection Platform.Email DLP: The newest addition to Zscaler’s Platform, this data loss channel enables integrated control over email and attachments. Easily added to existing email infrastructure as an extra hop to M365 or Google services, Zscaler helps further consolidate DLP control across this key channel.Reporting: Zscaler offers comprehensive reporting features in its core product that include historical data, trends, patterns of activity, user behavior and executive summaries with customizable metrics and insights. Rapid innovation comes with unique challenges. Chief among these is the complexity involved in transitioning legacy systems to its advanced cloud-focused model. For some organizations, the gap between on-premise familiarity and sophisticated cloud-native tools may initially find the learning curve steep without adequate resources or organizational buy-in and require extensive change management efforts. Moreover, as DLP policies grow stricter, successful implementation requires strong collaboration between security, compliance, and end-user teams within client organizations. Building awareness at the grassroots level for stakeholders preconditioned to work with legacy solutions is another challenge. To this end, Zscaler offers robust onboarding services to help ease these transitions. Conclusion: Zscaler’s Vision for Future-Proof DLPWe believe that Zscaler continues redefining data protection in a world where sensitive information travels beyond traditional perimeters. Its Zero Trust Exchange, backed by policy-based automation and AI-powered insights, is setting a new standard for protecting enterprise data. As the data risk landscape evolves and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, organizations seeking a proactive approach to data security can trust Zscaler’s innovative solutions to stay ahead.For enterprises navigating the complexities of DLP, we believe Zscaler’s position as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape is more than recognition; it’s a call to action for investing in a future-proof strategy. With the right guidance and technology, businesses can maintain compliance while fostering innovation in a cloud-first, AI-driven world. To learn more, download an excerpt of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DLP 2025 Vendor Assessment. Source: “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DLP 2025 Vendor Assessment” By: Jennifer Glenn, IDC doc #US53234325, March 2025
[#item_full_content] Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has undergone significant transformations over the years. Initially rooted in reactive measures to prevent data misuse, DLP has evolved to incorporate predictive and automated capabilities powered by AI and machine learning. This evolution enables enterprises to discover and classify sensitive data, identify abnormal patterns, maintain compliance with global regulations, and enhance overall security posture.As organizations adapt to the escalating risk of data breaches, the demand for robust data loss prevention (DLP) solutions has never been higher. IDC defines DLP as the set of technologies and processes designed to discover, monitor, and protect sensitive data from unauthorized access, misuse, or loss. IDC MarketScape for DLP Assessment IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Loss Prevention 2025 Vendor Assessment offers a comprehensive evaluation of nine companies in the DLP space. Its research includes vendor capabilities mapping, case studies, customer interviews, and evaluations of innovation at both strategic and tactical levels. By combining vendor performance insights with market trajectories, the excerpt serves as a benchmark for enterprises looking to enhance their data protection strategies with advanced DLP solutions. This rigorous research methodology provides a detailed analysis of vendor capabilities, offering invaluable insights into the competitive DLP landscape. Recently, the IDC MarketScape released its 2025 Worldwide Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Vendor Assessment, positioning Zscaler as a Leader.IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.Key takeaways from IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DLP 2025 Vendor AssessmentFor technology buyers, the IDC MarketScape assessment offers crucial takeaways. Enterprises are advised to prioritize vendors who concurrently support advanced data discovery, real-time threat prevention, and scalable integration across multi-cloud environments. Seamless deployment, integrations with existing IT ecosystem tools, and advanced reporting and analytics are must-have features for future-proofing data protection strategies. In addition to the excerpt, buyers are especially urged to align DLP investments with zero-trust security principles to ensure that solutions adapt readily to the shifting threat and data loss landscape. Why IDC MarketScape named Zscaler as a DLP LeaderThe IDC MarketScape for DLP 2025 Vendor Assessment named Zscaler as a Leader in the DLP market, citing the following strengths: “Zscaler has a sizeable customer base for its Zero Trust Network products. This gives Zscaler a solid foundation for expanding and growing its data security footprint while offering customers a consolidated experience.”“Customer feedback cited the speed and depth of Zscaler’s customer service and support, as well as the interoperability with other products in the portfolio.”What we believe are Zscaler’s Highlights and StrengthsComprehensive Data Protection Platform: Zscaler’s standout strength lies in its Zscaler Data Protection offering and its leverage of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ architecture. This integrated platform delivers functionalities essential for any contemporary DLP solution: robust data discovery, classification, data security posture management, and proactive mapping of regulatory requirements. Zscaler’s platform ensures complete data channel coverage, identifying sensitive data across various workloads, applications, and endpoints, while deploying real-time security capabilities to prevent unauthorized data exposure.Zero Trust Architecture: Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange aligns with one of the most effective security philosophies, enabling enterprises to eliminate implicit trust and secure interactions over all digital channels.Discovery and Classification: With powerful AI-driven classification complemented by traditional techniques like Regex, IDM, OCR, and EDM, the excerpt highlights the Zscaler platform’s comprehensive discovery capabilities. As a critical foundation for any data protection strategy, robust classification delivers deep visibility across all devices, applications, and locations, enabling organizations to safeguard sensitive data effectivelyIntegrated DSPM: Beyond simple data visibility, Zscaler’s platform extends into Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). This empowers organizations to uphold compliance, automate least-privilege access, and mitigate risks associated with misconfigurations or insider threats with prioritized risk remediation. Zscaler’s DSPM capabilities are currently available as an add-on to its Zscaler AI Data Protection Platform.Email DLP: The newest addition to Zscaler’s Platform, this data loss channel enables integrated control over email and attachments. Easily added to existing email infrastructure as an extra hop to M365 or Google services, Zscaler helps further consolidate DLP control across this key channel.Reporting: Zscaler offers comprehensive reporting features in its core product that include historical data, trends, patterns of activity, user behavior and executive summaries with customizable metrics and insights. Rapid innovation comes with unique challenges. Chief among these is the complexity involved in transitioning legacy systems to its advanced cloud-focused model. For some organizations, the gap between on-premise familiarity and sophisticated cloud-native tools may initially find the learning curve steep without adequate resources or organizational buy-in and require extensive change management efforts. Moreover, as DLP policies grow stricter, successful implementation requires strong collaboration between security, compliance, and end-user teams within client organizations. Building awareness at the grassroots level for stakeholders preconditioned to work with legacy solutions is another challenge. To this end, Zscaler offers robust onboarding services to help ease these transitions. Conclusion: Zscaler’s Vision for Future-Proof DLPWe believe that Zscaler continues redefining data protection in a world where sensitive information travels beyond traditional perimeters. Its Zero Trust Exchange, backed by policy-based automation and AI-powered insights, is setting a new standard for protecting enterprise data. As the data risk landscape evolves and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, organizations seeking a proactive approach to data security can trust Zscaler’s innovative solutions to stay ahead.For enterprises navigating the complexities of DLP, we believe Zscaler’s position as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape is more than recognition; it’s a call to action for investing in a future-proof strategy. With the right guidance and technology, businesses can maintain compliance while fostering innovation in a cloud-first, AI-driven world. To learn more, download an excerpt of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DLP 2025 Vendor Assessment. Source: “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DLP 2025 Vendor Assessment” By: Jennifer Glenn, IDC doc #US53234325, March 2025
