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Data Loss Prevention · PDPL Compliance · Insider Threat · Data Classification

Your Data.
Never
Leaves.

Pristine designs and implements enterprise Data Loss Prevention for Saudi organisations — classifying sensitive data, monitoring all data movement channels, and enforcing policies that prevent exfiltration via email, web, USB, cloud, and print. Saudi PDPL compliance, NCA ECC data security sub-controls, and SAMA customer data protection built-in.

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NCA ECCData Security Controls
SAMACustomer Data Aligned
DLP POLICY ENGINE · ACTIVE
ENFORCING
// Data Movement Events — Last 60 min
Emailfinance-report-Q2.xlsx → external Gmail · 47 customer recordsBLOCKED
USBUnencrypted USB insert · Workstation-KSA-14 · Policy enforcedENCRYPTED
Cloudcustomer-db-export.csv → personal OneDrive · BLOCKEDBLOCKED
PrintCONFIDENTIAL-contract.pdf → external print · watermarkedWATERMARKED
WebForm upload: Saudi national IDs × 240 → social media · BLOCKEDBLOCKED
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Events Blocked Today
0
Policy Violations Undetected
Data Loss Prevention
Saudi PDPL Compliance
Data Classification
Insider Threat Detection
Email DLP
Cloud DLP
Endpoint DLP
Microsoft Purview
NCA ECC Data Security
SAMA Customer Data
Print Control
USB Encryption
Data Loss Prevention
Saudi PDPL Compliance
Data Classification
Insider Threat Detection
Email DLP
Cloud DLP
Endpoint DLP
Microsoft Purview
NCA ECC Data Security
SAMA Customer Data
Print Control
USB Encryption

Classify First. Protect Everywhere.

Effective DLP starts with data classification — you cannot protect data you cannot identify. Pristine implements a Saudi-specific classification framework that identifies, labels, and tracks sensitive data across your entire digital estate before applying DLP policies that prevent it from leaving through any channel.

Saudi PDPL creates specific obligations for organisations processing personal data — and data classification is the operational foundation of PDPL compliance. Pristine's classification framework maps directly to PDPL data categories and NCA ECC data security sub-controls simultaneously.

  • PDPL Sensitive Data: health data, financial data, biometrics, national IDs — enhanced classification tier with strictest controls
  • NCA ECC Data Labels: Top Secret, Secret, Confidential, Restricted, Public — aligned to Saudi government classification standards
  • SAMA Customer Data: financial account data, transaction history, customer PII — specific SAMA data handling controls applied
  • Automatic classification: ML-powered content inspection classifying data as it is created, modified, or transmitted
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// Saudi Data Classification Framework
RESTRICTED — TOP SECRET
Highest sensitivity. Strictest controls. Breach = critical.
National security data, classified defence, government Top Secret
CONFIDENTIAL
Sensitive business and personal data. PDPL Sensitive Data category.
Health records, biometrics, financial data, national IDs, legal contracts
INTERNAL — SENSITIVE
Internal business data requiring protection. PDPL Personal Data.
Customer names, emails, employee data, financial reports
INTERNAL
General internal use. Not for external distribution.
Internal memos, project plans, meeting minutes
PUBLIC
Approved for external sharing. No DLP policy restrictions.
Marketing materials, press releases, published reports

Every Data Exfiltration Channel Controlled

Data leaves your organisation through 7 primary channels — Pristine's DLP implementation covers all of them simultaneously.

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Email DLP

Scans all outbound email — content inspection, attachment analysis, and recipient validation. Saudi PDPL personal data blocked from leaving via email to personal accounts or unapproved external domains.

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Cloud & SaaS DLP

Monitors and controls data upload to cloud storage (OneDrive, SharePoint, Box, Google Drive) and SaaS applications — blocking uploads of classified data to personal or unapproved cloud services.

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Web & Browser DLP

Inspects HTTP/HTTPS uploads, form submissions, and file transfers through web browsers — preventing classified data from being posted to websites, forums, or external web applications.

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Endpoint & Removable Media

Controls USB drives, external hard drives, and print operations on managed endpoints. Encrypted USB enforcement — only corporate-approved, encrypted USB devices permitted for data transfer.

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Collaboration & Messaging

Controls data sharing through Microsoft Teams, Slack, and email collaboration tools — classifying content in messages and blocking sharing of restricted data to external participants.

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Print & Watermarking

Monitors and controls printing of classified documents — automatic digital watermarking of sensitive prints with user identity, timestamp, and classification label for forensic traceability.

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Mobile & Remote Workers

Mobile DLP policies for corporate devices — preventing copy-paste of sensitive data to personal apps, screenshot restrictions for classified content, and remote wipe capability.

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DLP Platforms Pristine Deploys

Microsoft Purview
Enterprise DLP
Pristine's primary DLP platform for Microsoft-centric organisations — native integration with M365, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive. Unified data governance and PDPL classification.
Forcepoint DLP
Enterprise DLP
Strongest content inspection and behaviour analytics — Forcepoint's psychology-based approach to insider threat makes it ideal for organisations with sensitive data and high-risk user populations.
Symantec DLP
Enterprise DLP
Broadest channel coverage — Symantec DLP covers network, endpoint, cloud, and discovery in a single policy engine. Strong for complex multi-channel Saudi enterprise environments.
Zscaler DLP
Cloud-Native DLP
Cloud-delivered DLP for cloud-first organisations — inline inspection of all web and cloud traffic without on-premise infrastructure. Ideal for Saudi organisations with distributed workforces.

Why Saudi Organisations Choose Pristine for DLP

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PDPL-First Classification

Pristine's DLP classification framework is designed for Saudi PDPL from the ground up — PDPL sensitive data categories mapped to technical classification labels, with enhanced controls automatically applied to health, financial, and biometric data.

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Low False-Positive Tuning

DLP that blocks legitimate business processes destroys adoption. Pristine tunes policies through a 4-week observation period before enforcement — calibrating to your actual data flows to minimise legitimate business disruption.

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NCA ECC & SAMA Integrated

NCA ECC data security sub-controls and SAMA customer data requirements satisfied simultaneously from Pristine's DLP programme — no separate compliance work required for the data security domain.

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Arabic Content Inspection

DLP content inspection policies include Arabic-language pattern matching — crucial for Saudi organisations where sensitive data in Arabic characters would bypass English-only DLP rules.

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Insider Threat Focus

DLP is your primary control against insider threats and compromised accounts attempting data exfiltration. Pristine configures DLP with behaviour analytics — detecting unusual data access patterns, not just policy violations.

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Saudi Workforce DLP

DLP deployed across Saudi enterprise environments — Arabic-language user notifications for policy violations, culturally appropriate warning messages, and Arabic exception request workflows.

DLP Results in Saudi Arabia

★★★★★

Pristine's DLP deployment identified 847 instances of Saudi national IDs and customer health records stored on employee personal OneDrive accounts — data we had no visibility of before. The PDPL classification framework they implemented produced the SDAIA evidence we needed for compliance. Outstanding work.

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Noura Al-Anazi
CPO, Saudi Healthcare Network
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The Microsoft Purview DLP Pristine deployed has blocked 3 significant data exfiltration attempts in 6 months — including a finance employee attempting to exfiltrate the entire customer database before resigning. The Arabic user notifications reduced false positive complaints significantly compared to our previous English-only DLP.

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Khalid Al-Anazi
CISO, Saudi Bank
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We needed DLP that worked with Arabic content — our previous solution missed Arabic-language documents containing sensitive data because it only matched English patterns. Pristine's Arabic-aware classification caught 12x more true positives in the first month. PDPL compliance for our Saudi customer data is now genuinely enforced.

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Hamad Al-Mutairi
Head of Data Security, Saudi Retail Group

DLP FAQs

DLP protects sensitive data — broadly, information that if exposed would cause harm to your organisation, your customers, or Saudi citizens. DLP identifies sensitive data through content inspection: pattern matching (credit card numbers, national IDs, health record codes), keyword dictionaries, document fingerprinting, and ML-based classification. Pristine configures DLP with Saudi-specific patterns including Saudi national ID format, IBAN numbers, and Arabic-language healthcare terminology. Data classification labels applied by users or automatically by ML also trigger DLP policy enforcement.
This is the most common concern. A poorly implemented DLP will block legitimate work and frustrate users into finding workarounds. Pristine addresses this through: a 4-week observation period (monitor-only, no blocking) before enforcement to understand actual data flows; business process-aware policy exceptions built from observation data; Arabic-language user notifications explaining what triggered the policy and how to request an exception; and a tiered approach (warn first, then block) for medium-risk violations. Our target is less than 1% false-positive rate before enforcement mode is activated.
PDPL requires organisations to protect Saudi personal data — DLP is the technical enforcement mechanism. Specifically: (1) Data classification identifies all PDPL-covered data across your systems; (2) DLP policies enforce the technical protections required by PDPL — preventing personal data from being shared without appropriate controls; (3) DLP event logs provide SDAIA with evidence of technical measures taken to protect personal data; (4) Breach detection capability through DLP alerts provides early warning of potential PDPL notifiable events. Pristine's DLP classification framework maps directly to PDPL data categories.
Yes — with appropriate technical architecture. For HTTPS web traffic, Pristine deploys SSL/TLS inspection that decrypts, inspects, and re-encrypts traffic before forwarding — giving DLP visibility into encrypted web uploads and form submissions. For email, Pristine's DLP inspects before encryption at the mail gateway. For applications that use end-to-end encryption (WhatsApp, Signal), DLP cannot inspect message content but can control data transfer at the endpoint level — restricting copy-paste from sensitive applications to messaging apps.
Yes — Arabic content support is a core element of Pristine's DLP deployments for Saudi organisations. We configure DLP with Arabic-language sensitive data patterns (Arabic national ID formats, Arabic health terminology, Arabic financial data patterns), Arabic-language user notification messages for policy violations, and Arabic-language exception request workflows. This is critical for Saudi organisations — generic DLP solutions often miss sensitive data in Arabic documents and create user friction through English-only notifications.

Your Data.
Stays Where It Belongs.

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