Symantec DLP Distributed Detection Service for API
Symantec DLP Distributed Detection Service for API provides essential protection for your application programming interfaces, ensuring sensitive data remains secure.
- API Data Protection: Coverage for detecting and preventing sensitive data exfiltration through API channels.
- Subscription Access: Continuous access to the latest threat intelligence and detection capabilities for your APIs.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps meet regulatory requirements by monitoring API data flows for policy violations.
- Enhanced Visibility: Gain critical insights into how sensitive data is accessed and transmitted via your APIs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This subscription provides Symantec's Distributed Detection Service specifically designed to monitor and protect APIs from data leakage. It enables organizations to identify and control sensitive information being exposed or transmitted through their application interfaces, ensuring compliance and security.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this service to extend their data loss prevention strategies to the API layer. It integrates into existing security frameworks to provide granular control over API data flows, safeguarding critical business information.
- API Data Discovery: Identifies sensitive data types within API traffic.
- Real-time Monitoring: Continuously scans API requests and responses for policy violations.
- Policy Enforcement: Allows configuration of rules to block or alert on unauthorized data sharing.
- Subscription Model: Provides ongoing access to software updates and threat intelligence.
- Scalable Protection: Adapts to the growing number of APIs and data volumes within an organization.
Secure your critical API communications with Symantec's advanced detection capabilities, offering enterprise-grade data protection without the enterprise overhead.
What This Enables
Enable API Data Loss Prevention
Enable teams to monitor API traffic for sensitive data, preventing unauthorized exfiltration. Streamline the process of identifying and blocking policy violations across all API endpoints.
Cloud-native applications, Microservices architecture, SaaS integrations, Web services, Mobile backend services
Automate Sensitive Data Detection
Automate the detection of regulated or confidential data within API requests and responses. Streamline compliance efforts by ensuring continuous monitoring of data in transit.
Data-driven platforms, Customer-facing applications, Internal business process APIs, Third-party API integrations
Enhance API Security Posture
Enhance the overall security posture by extending data loss prevention to the API layer. Support the secure development lifecycle by integrating data protection early in the API design.
API development lifecycle, Application security testing, Network security infrastructure, Cloud security management
Key Features
API Traffic Monitoring
Gain visibility into sensitive data flows through your APIs, identifying potential risks before they lead to breaches.
Data Classification
Automatically identify and classify sensitive data types within API payloads, enabling targeted protection.
Policy Enforcement
Configure and enforce custom policies to prevent unauthorized data access or transmission via APIs.
Subscription Updates
Receive continuous updates to detection rules and threat intelligence, ensuring your API security remains current.
Distributed Architecture
Deploy detection capabilities close to your APIs for efficient and scalable data protection.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions handle vast amounts of sensitive customer data and are subject to strict regulations like PCI DSS and GLBA, making API data protection critical for compliance and fraud prevention.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must protect Protected Health Information (PHI) under HIPAA, and APIs are increasingly used for data exchange, requiring robust controls to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers process significant volumes of payment card data and customer PII through APIs for e-commerce and loyalty programs, necessitating strong security to prevent breaches and maintain trust.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies manage citizen data and critical infrastructure information, requiring secure API communication to prevent data breaches and ensure the integrity of public services.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of APIs does this service protect?
This service is designed to protect various types of APIs, including RESTful APIs, SOAP services, and other web-based interfaces used for application communication.
How is sensitive data detected within API traffic?
The service uses predefined and customizable data identifiers, such as regular expressions, dictionaries, and machine learning models, to detect sensitive information within API requests and responses.
What happens when a policy violation is detected?
When a policy violation is detected, the service can be configured to take various actions, such as blocking the transaction, alerting administrators, or logging the event for further investigation.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.