Most DLP tools sit outside your network and miss what matters most. Aryaka Next-Gen DLP is built into the SASE fabric, inspecting every packet, every user, every location. One platform. No new endpoint agents. No new vendors.

What Is Next-Gen DLP?

Aryaka Next-Gen DLP is a data loss prevention capability built directly into the Aryaka Unified SASE platform. It uses AI-powered analysis, natural language processing (NLP), named entity recognition (NER), image-based detection, and API inspection to detect and stop sensitive data exposure across users, applications, networks, and AI tools in real time.

Traditional Data Loss Prevention tools were designed to identify sensitive information using predefined rules and pattern matching. That approach worked well when data stayed inside a corporate perimeter. It does not hold up when employees are working across SaaS applications, cloud services, AI tools, and remote networks every day.

Unlike standalone solutions, Aryaka Next-Gen DLP is delivered through Aryaka’s OnePASS architecture, which lets security services inspect traffic once across all controls in a single pass, rather than routing it through separate point products and consoles.

AI-Powered Detection

NLP, NER, image-based detection, and contextual analysis work together to identify sensitive information with greater accuracy than pattern matching alone.

Real-Time Protection

Inspect and enforce policy on sensitive data inline before it leaves your organization: redact or mask data where supported, log it, or block it outright. No separate DLP endpoint agent required.

Unified Visibility

Policy enforcement and security events are managed through a single experience in MyAryaka, not a separate console bolted onto your existing stack.

The Data Protection Challenge Is Growing Faster Than Ever

9 in 10

AI Adoption

Nearly nine in ten organizations now use AI in at least one business function, creating new pathways for sensitive information to leave through channels traditional DLP was never designed to cover.

McKinsey, State of AI: Global Survey, 2026

$4.99M

Average Cost of a Data Breach

Breaches involving AI run about $6M on average, roughly $1M costlier than the norm, as employees share information across SaaS apps, cloud services, APIs, and AI assistants.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2026

179

Compliance Pressure

Of 240 jurisdictions worldwide now have data protection frameworks in place. Organizations must demonstrate stronger controls under GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other evolving requirements.

IAPP Global Privacy Law and DPA Directory, 2026

As data becomes more distributed across SaaS, cloud, and AI-powered workflows, security teams need visibility and policy enforcement that follows the data, not just the perimeter.

Legacy DLP Was Built for a World That No Longer Exists

Data doesn’t stay inside your perimeter anymore. It moves through AI tools, SaaS applications, remote workers, and branch offices. Legacy DLP wasn’t designed for this, and the gaps widen every quarter.

Blind to AI traffic

When an employee pastes a customer contract into ChatGPT or Copilot, legacy DLP never sees it. The data leaves before anyone knows there was a risk.

Fragmented by design

Your DLP tool, your SASE platform, and your network are three separate systems. Separate consoles. Separate policies. Separate teams carrying the operational load.

Expensive to operate

Legacy DLP requires ongoing tuning, generates high false-positive rates, and needs dedicated headcount to stay functional. The complexity tax compounds every quarter.

Four Outcomes You Won’t Get from a Bolt-On Solution

Aryaka Next-Gen DLP isn’t a product you add to your stack. It’s a capability you activate in the network you already run.

Data protection with zero deployment project

If you’re already on Aryaka SASE, DLP activates within your existing environment, with no new procurement cycle and no rip-and-replace. Protection in days, not months.

No new vendors

Complete visibility across every user, site, and AI tool

Inline inspection covers traffic from remote workers, branch offices, SaaS apps, and API calls to LLMs, inspected once, in real time, through a single policy layer.

No blind spots

AI-powered detection that reduces manual tuning

Named entity recognition, NLP, and image OCR replace brittle regex rules, cutting false positives compared with pattern matching alone. Your team spends time on decisions, not maintenance.

Less manual tuning

Audit-ready compliance, faster

Pre-built policy packs for GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. One-click audit reports and centralized, immutable logs help your team respond quickly when an auditor calls.

Faster audits

Aryaka Next-Gen DLP vs Traditional DLP

Traditional DLP

Separate product deployment

Multiple management consoles

Pattern matching and regex focused

Limited visibility into modern AI workflows

Additional operational overhead

Multiple vendors and integrations

Aryaka Next-Gen DLP

Built into Unified SASE

Unified management through MyAryaka

AI-powered NLP, NER, OCR, and contextual analysis

Inspection of API and AI-related traffic

Managed service delivery

Single-platform security architecture

Most DLP solutions were added to existing environments as standalone tools. Aryaka takes a different approach by integrating DLP into a unified networking and security architecture alongside Secure Web Gateway (SWG), CASB, and other security services, helping organizations simplify operations while improving visibility and control.

DLP Delivered on a Network Already Trusted by Global Enterprises

Aryaka Next-Gen DLP extends data protection across the same global managed SASE platform enterprises already trust for networking and security.

100s

Global enterprises running on Aryaka SASE today

Fortune 500

Trusted by leading Fortune 500 enterprises

45+

Global Points of Presence powering Aryaka’s managed SASE platform

95%

Of knowledge workers are within 30 ms of an Aryaka service location

PII & Cardholder Data

Detects Social Security numbers, financial account details, and payment card data (PAN) in motion, supporting PCI DSS scope reduction.

SaaS Uploads & Cloud Storage

Inspects files uploaded to Salesforce, Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive before sensitive attachments leave managed control.

Web & File Transfer Traffic

Applies policy to HTTP/HTTPS traffic, web forms, and file transfers so documents aren’t exposed through everyday browsing.

Insider & Exfiltration Risk

Flags unusual data movement, such as large or repeated transfers to personal email or unsanctioned destinations, before it becomes an investigation.

GenAI & Copilot Prompts

Scans prompts and API calls to ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI tools for sensitive data before it reaches the model.

A Closer Look: How It Plays Out with GenAI

Your employees use ChatGPT, Copilot, and other AI tools every day. Most aren’t trying to cause a breach, but pasting a customer list, a contract draft, or proprietary source code into a prompt can move sensitive data outside your control. Traditional DLP was never built to catch it.

Without Aryaka

Scenario: Employee uses ChatGPT for a proposal

Account executive copies a client’s financial terms and pastes them into ChatGPT to draft a proposal.

The request travels over the web. Legacy DLP sits outside the network and sees nothing. No alert. No block.

The data is processed by a third-party LLM. It may be logged, retained, or used for model training.

The exposure surfaces later, often in a compliance audit.

Potential breach, regulatory exposure, and a board conversation you didn’t plan for.

Aryaka Next-Gen DLP

Same scenario. A different result.

The same request travels through Aryaka’s network and hits the inline DLP inspection layer at the PoP.

AI-powered NLP detects PII and confidential financial terms inside the API request body, in real time.

Sensitive fields are redacted or masked where supported, or the request is blocked entirely, per your policy.

The event is logged in MyAryaka with full context, giving your team visibility to investigate.

Policy enforced automatically, with full visibility for your security team, instead of a discovery made months later in an audit.

This isn’t a niche edge case

Gartner estimates that by 2027, over 40% of enterprise employees will use AI assistants daily as part of their core workflow, one more path for sensitive data to leave alongside SaaS uploads, web traffic, and email. Network-based inspection gives security teams a way to extend visibility across all of these paths from a single control point.

Next-Gen DLP Frequently Asked Questions

Aryaka Next-Gen DLP is an advanced data loss prevention capability built directly into the Aryaka Unified SASE platform . Legacy DLP sits outside the network, relies on basic pattern matching, and requires agents and separate management consoles. Aryaka DLP is embedded inline, inspecting traffic at the network layer via OnePASS architecture, using AI-powered NLP and contextual analysis. One platform. No extra agents. No extra vendors.

Yes. Aryaka Next-Gen DLP can scan and detect sensitive data in API request and response bodies, including APIs that access large language models. If an employee submits sensitive information to an AI tool, the request can be flagged, redacted inline, or blocked in real time before the data reaches the LLM. This is a capability most legacy DLP tools simply cannot provide. See also: Aryaka AI Secure for broader AI governance capabilities.

No. If you’re already on the Aryaka Unified SASE platform , DLP is activated as a capability within your existing environment. No new agents, no new appliances, no additional procurement cycle. For new customers, it is delivered as part of the fully managed SASE service. The onboarding is measured in days, not months.

Aryaka Next-Gen DLP includes pre-built policy packs mapped directly to GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS requirements. It provides centralized audit logs, one-click audit packs, masked-at-ingestion evidence, data residency controls, and role-based access control. When an auditor asks for demonstrable controls, you have them without custom report preparation.

Protection is consistent across all users and locations: headquarters, branch offices, remote workers, cloud workloads, and SaaS applications. Aryaka offers both site licenses for physical locations and user licenses for remote employees, ensuring there are no coverage gaps regardless of where your data moves. Universal ZTNA and Next-Gen DLP work together to govern both who can connect and what data can move.

It means your team doesn’t carry the operational burden of tuning policies, chasing false positives, or managing a separate DLP console. Aryaka’s managed service model handles platform operations. You set the policies; we make sure they run. Your security team gets unified visibility through MyAryaka, one interface for DLP events, policy hits, and observability across your entire network.

Traditional DLP solutions often require separate deployments, management consoles, policies, and operational expertise. Aryaka Next-Gen DLP is integrated into the Aryaka Unified SASE platform , helping organizations consolidate security services and reduce the overhead associated with managing multiple point products.

As employees increasingly use AI assistants, cloud applications, and SaaS platforms to accelerate productivity, organizations face new risks of accidental data exposure. Aryaka Next-Gen DLP helps security teams identify and protect sensitive information across modern workflows, including AI-related interactions, before data leaves the organization.

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