Data loss prevention (DLP) focuses on preventing data breaches and unwanted loss of sensitive data, defending organizations from both data loss and leakage. DLP is essential for businesses as data is critical to their operations, and data loss from system failures, human errors, corruption, attacks or disasters can be detrimental or cause businesses to cease existing. DLP security aims to prevent important data loss events like ransomware attacks by focusing on stopping exfiltration of sensitive information and unwanted destruction of data that is important to the enterprise.