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Resource guidepathfinder · 5 min read · Updated 20-Sep-2026
Protect & Govern · Guidance

Choose Your DLP Path

Answer two practical questions and go to the Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or Sekurzen Guard guidance that matches your environment and objective.

pathfinder · 5 min read · Updated 20-Sep-2026
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Why this matters

  • •DLP guidance is easier to use when platform fundamentals are shared, implementation advice is separated by platform, and Sekurzen Guard is evaluated as an additional protection option.

What you will learn

  • •Identify the platform-specific path that matches your collaboration environment.
  • •Decide whether to use native controls, evaluate Sekurzen Guard alongside existing licenses, or compare both approaches.

Practical next actions

  • •Record your platform, workloads, data types, and required actions before selecting a product path.
  • •Use the relevant implementation guide and validate capability, licensing, and cost with a controlled pilot.

Start with two questions

This page is a routing point for customer stakeholders. It does not assume that Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or Sekurzen Guard is the right answer before your environment and protection outcome are understood.

Question 1: Which collaboration environment are you protecting?

Microsoft 365

Continue with the Microsoft 365 protection model and the M365 DLP policy guide. These cover Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Purview controls, licensing checks, and operating practice.

Google Workspace

Continue with the Google Workspace protection model. It introduces the Google-specific locations and policy decisions without importing Microsoft-specific assumptions.

Both platforms, or a mixed environment

Read both platform guides, then compare their operating guidance to define common data types, policy outcomes, evidence, ownership, and review cadence. Use the Microsoft 365 operating guide and Google Workspace operating guide, and confirm each platform's actual workload coverage separately.

I am not sure

Start with the DLP fundamentals. Continue through data classification, leakage paths, and layered controls before you choose a platform implementation.

Question 2: What outcome are you evaluating?

Use controls already included in the platform

Begin with the relevant native platform guide. Check your current subscription, supported locations, policy actions, administrative roles, and operating effort before assuming that an upgrade is required.

Add Sekurzen Guard alongside existing platform licenses

Read Sekurzen Guard: a focused DLP option. Treat Sekurzen Guard as an additional control to evaluate against your defined data, workloads, actions, evidence, and service expectations.

Compare native controls with Sekurzen Guard

Read the Sekurzen Guard guide and complete its three-year comparison method. Compare equivalent users, workloads, policy outcomes, support, implementation, administration, and evaluation period.

I need advanced enterprise protection

Review the platform's advanced capabilities, such as persistent labeling, encryption, endpoint DLP, insider-risk context, records management, eDiscovery, or broader security operations. A focused DLP requirement may not need all of these, but a broader programme may.

Keep the decision record explainable

Whatever path you choose, record:

  • platform and workloads in scope
  • data types and detection confidence required
  • actions such as audit, warn, allow with justification, block, or quarantine
  • evidence and investigation requirements
  • existing licenses and incremental cost
  • implementation, administration, support, and user-impact assumptions
  • pilot evidence, residual risk, accountable owner, and review date

The next article explains how to evaluate Sekurzen Guard as a focused option alongside existing platform controls.

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