Re: Minimum DLP rules & thresholds for all users

[Ken Munro <Ken.Munro () MSVU CA>]

We use Office 365 DLP.

We monitor for SSN (or SIN in Canada), health card numbers, driver's licenses, passport numbers, credit card numbers, 
and bank account numbers. We monitor all accounts.

Our thresholds are low. Any number (1 or above) of these numbers are reported, but in a weekly and monthly summary 
email, not for each incident. I would run a custom report in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center to get more 
details.

We are a small university as well, and the IT department took it upon itself to monitor for this leakage. It is not 
driven by a top-down governance need, unfortunately.

Thanks.

Ken Munro
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Ken Munro
Security Compliance and Training Specialist
Information Technology and Services
Mount Saint Vincent University
166 Bedford Highway
Halifax, NS B3M 2J6
(902) 457-6150
ken.munro () msvu ca

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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of Jim A. Bole
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2020 2:18 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Minimum DLP rules & thresholds for all users

I would like to get some feedback from folks that have deployed a DLP solution:
1.       What are the minimum rules and thresholds you've applied across your org to all/most users, as opposed to more 
granular rules you may have applied to specific groups requiring increased security/privacy?
2.       Since SSN is often regarded as a key piece of PII, what rules/thresholds have you applied for SSNs and what 
regulatory criteria supports it (FERPA, GLBA, GDPR, etc.)
3.       What person or group is responsible for establishing DLP policy parameters, IT, Privacy Office, Legal, etc.?
I'm especially interested in small/medium private institutions like mine who don't have as heavy of a compliance burden 
as larger, public ones.

Many thanks.

Jim Bole
Director of Information Security
Stevenson University
1525 Greenspring Valley Road
Stevenson, MD, 21153-0641
jbole () stevenson edu | O: 443-334-2696



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