Top 6 Data Loss Prevention Vendors in India 2026
The 6 DLP platforms worth shortlisting in India
A working shortlist of the DLP platforms we deploy and support in India, ranked on what they inspect, what they cost and who they suit, not brand noise.
How this list was built
Priya Sharma built this list from the Secure Data Guard practice at Sirius Star. We ranked only the DLP platforms we actually deploy and support in India, each with a live brand page you can open and read. Ranking weighs real India pricing, depth of content inspection, fit for the departing-employee and insider-risk problem, DPDP and CERT-In readiness, and whether a team can run it without a large SOC. India’s DLP market is set to grow from 234 million dollars in 2025 to over a billion by 2034, and most of that spend is compliance-driven. Forcepoint and Netskope are credible platforms we can source, but this ranks the six we run day to day.
The 6 picks at a glance
Every vendor here is one we quote, deploy and support in India, with the point where it stops fitting stated plainly.
| Rank | Vendor | Best for | Indicative price band | Verdict in a line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Microsoft Purview DLP | Any team already on Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 that wants DLP and insider risk on one licence | Included with Microsoft 365 E5 (about Rs 4,740 per user per month). Endpoint DLP and Insider Risk sit at the E5 tier. Standalone Purview DLP starts near Rs 1,000 per user per month | Already paid for, if you run E5 |
| #2 | Fortra Digital Guardian | Teams whose real fear is endpoint exfiltration and who want a managed data-protection programme | Quote-based, priced by module (endpoint, network, discovery) and whether Sirius Star runs it as a managed service | The endpoint-exfil specialist |
| #3 | Symantec DLP | Large or regulated estates that need the deepest content inspection across every channel | Rs 1,00,000 to Rs 5,00,000 a year for a mid-size estate, priced per module and seat. Large BFSI rollouts run well above that, and an Oracle database licence for the Enforce server is a separate line | The classification benchmark, still |
| #4 | Trellix DLP | Shops already running the Trellix or ePO stack that want DLP as an add-on | Rs 1,00,000 to Rs 5,00,000 a year, priced per module, and lower per seat if you already run Trellix | DLP inside the stack you already own |
| #5 | Proofpoint | Teams whose leaks leave by email and cloud share, not just the USB port | INR 1,00,000 to 5,00,000 a year, depending on the modules you take, email DLP, insider threat management and DSPM | The human-vector pick nobody shortlists |
| #6 | Skyhigh Security | SaaS-heavy shops where the data to protect lives in cloud apps, not on laptops | Per user, sold inside the Skyhigh SSE bundle and quoted by user count and modules | Cloud-first DLP for a cloud-first shop |
Why this list exists
Most DLP shortlists start the wrong way. A compliance email lands, someone searches for the top DLP tools, and a 200-person firm ends up quoting a platform built for a bank with a dedicated data-protection team. Then it sits half-configured, because nobody had three months to label data first. We have seen that pattern more times than we can count. The trigger is almost always the same. Three people resign in a quarter, and each one pulls a folder before the exit interview. Now the board wants DLP by Friday. The honest answer is that DLP is not a switch you flip. It is a programme, and the right platform depends on where your data actually lives, whether that is Microsoft 365, a file server, email, or a dozen SaaS apps nobody fully tracks. It also depends on who will run it at 2am. CERT-In now expects six-hour incident reporting, and DLP telemetry is the evidence layer for any data-exfiltration case, so a tool that cannot export a clean timeline is a liability, not a control. DPDP raises the stakes again by putting personal data under real penalties. This list ranks for that reality, the mid-market Indian buyer who needs to stop the leak, prove it to a regulator, and not hire a five-person team to do it.
The 6 DLP vendors, in order
#1 Microsoft Purview DLP
Best for Microsoft 365 shopsWhere it wins. If your data already lives in Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams, Purview enforces DLP across all of them from one console, and the same sensitivity labels drive endpoint DLP on Windows and Mac. Adaptive Protection ties Insider Risk to DLP, so the rules tighten on their own around a user who just resigned. For the departing-employee folder-download problem, that link is the whole point. On an E5 licence you are not buying a new contract, you are switching on something you already pay for.
Where it stops fitting. Coverage drops off the moment data leaves the Microsoft estate. Third-party SaaS, non-Microsoft email and unmanaged laptops need other tooling, and full endpoint DLP sits behind the E5 tier, so an E3 shop pays to climb.
Indicative price band: Included with Microsoft 365 E5 (about Rs 4,740 per user per month). Endpoint DLP and Insider Risk sit at the E5 tier. Standalone Purview DLP starts near Rs 1,000 per user per month
Full brand page →#2 Fortra Digital Guardian
Best for insider and endpoint data lossWhere it wins. Digital Guardian, now part of Fortra, was built around the endpoint and the departing-employee problem this list opens with. It watches files at the point of use, flags the USB copy and the bulk download, and can block or log the folder that walks out before an exit interview. We have seen it earn its slot at a Navi Mumbai firm where three resignations in one quarter each pulled a folder on the way out. It is the Secure Data Guard platform we deploy most for insider risk.
Where it stops fitting. It is a programme, not a switch. The value comes from tuning and, for most mid-market teams, from running it as a managed service rather than staffing it in-house. Cloud-app coverage is thinner than a native SSE tool.
Indicative price band: Quote-based, priced by module (endpoint, network, discovery) and whether Sirius Star runs it as a managed service
Full brand page →#3 Symantec DLP
Best for depth and regulated dataWhere it wins. For catching partial matches and near-copy documents, nothing on this list beats Symantec. Exact Data Matching, Indexed Document Matching and OCR run across endpoint, network, email, storage and cloud under one policy. For BFSI and regulated data, where a missed match can carry a penalty in crores, that depth is the reason to pick it. Sirius Star is an authorised Symantec partner, so the contract and support sit with a local team.
Where it stops fitting. Now a Broadcom asset, its mindshare has slipped from about 15 percent in 2024 to 8 percent in 2026, product pace has slowed, and the server-and-appliance architecture is heavy to run. A fresh 100-seat mid-market buyer often finds the commercials and the deployment harder than a modern option.
Indicative price band: Rs 1,00,000 to Rs 5,00,000 a year for a mid-size estate, priced per module and seat. Large BFSI rollouts run well above that, and an Oracle database licence for the Enforce server is a separate line
Full brand page →#4 Trellix DLP
Best add-on for Trellix estatesWhere it wins. The former McAfee DLP suite has strong endpoint controls, data-in-use inspection, USB, clipboard and print rules, and discovery that crawls endpoints and repositories, all from the ePO console. If Trellix Endpoint Security is already on your machines, adding DLP means one console and one vendor instead of two.
Where it stops fitting. The cloud and SSE story is thin, because that business left as Skyhigh Security, so cloud-channel coverage often leans on partners. It reads as evolved-legacy rather than cloud-first, and outside an existing Trellix estate the case weakens.
Indicative price band: Rs 1,00,000 to Rs 5,00,000 a year, priced per module, and lower per seat if you already run Trellix
Full brand page →#5 Proofpoint
Best for email and insider-threat DLPWhere it wins. Most DLP shortlists start at the endpoint and forget that a lot of data leaves by email and cloud share. Proofpoint sits on the human vector, with email DLP, insider threat management from the old ObserveIT line, and DSPM from the Normalyze buy. For a firm whose real exposure is a forwarded attachment rather than a USB stick, this is the coverage the endpoint tools miss.
Where it stops fitting. It is not the pick if your worry is a local folder copied to a drive. Endpoint data-in-use control is lighter than Symantec or Fortra, so it works best paired with one of them rather than run alone.
Indicative price band: INR 1,00,000 to 5,00,000 a year, depending on the modules you take, email DLP, insider threat management and DSPM
Full brand page →#6 Skyhigh Security
Best for cloud and SaaS dataWhere it wins. Skyhigh, the former McAfee MVISION Cloud business, protects data where it now lives, in Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Box, Salesforce and shadow SaaS. Its CASB heritage means inline and API control over what users upload and share across cloud apps, which endpoint tools cannot see. If your sensitive data has already moved to the cloud, this is where DLP has to sit.
Where it stops fitting. For a local folder copied to a USB stick it is the wrong layer, because its strength is cloud and web traffic, not data-in-use on the endpoint. It fits best where the estate is already SaaS-first.
Indicative price band: Per user, sold inside the Skyhigh SSE bundle and quoted by user count and modules
Full brand page →How to pick between them
Start with where your data lives. If it already sits in Microsoft 365 and you pay for E5, switch on Microsoft Purview first, because you own it and its Insider Risk link is built for the departing-employee case. If your real fear is a folder copied to a USB stick or a bulk download before someone resigns, go to Fortra Digital Guardian, which was built for exactly that, and which we can run as a managed service so you do not need a SOC. If you are a bank or a regulated firm where a missed match carries a penalty in crores, Symantec has the deepest inspection engine, as long as you can carry the deployment and the Oracle licence behind it. If Trellix Endpoint is already on your machines, add Trellix DLP and keep it to one console. If your leaks leave by email and cloud share rather than the endpoint, Proofpoint covers the human vector the others miss. And if your data has already moved into SaaS apps, Skyhigh sits inline where that data now lives. One more thing. If you are rolling fresh laptops to a new team at the same time, ask about Device-as-a-Service from Rs 499 per device per month, so the machines arrive already enrolled and the DLP agent is on them from day one, not bolted on later. Tell us your headcount, where your data sits, and the clause you answer to, and we will shortlist three in 24 working hours.
The one vendor most buyers skip
The platform most buyers skip is Proofpoint. It does not show up when you ask three peers what DLP they run, because they are all thinking about the endpoint. It sits at number five here because it does one thing the endpoint tools do not. It guards the email and cloud-share vector, where a large share of real data loss actually happens, a forwarded attachment, a file shared to a personal account. With insider threat management from the old ObserveIT line and DSPM from the Normalyze buy, it watches the risky user, not just the file. For a firm whose exposure is the outbox rather than the USB port, that quiet coverage is often the piece the shortlist was missing.
Questions this list tends to raise
Which DLP tool is best if we already use Microsoft 365?
We keep losing files when people resign. What actually stops that?
Why is Forcepoint not on this list?
Do these meet DPDP and CERT-In requirements?
How fast can Sirius Star shortlist DLP for us?
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Tell us where your data lives, your headcount and the clause you answer to. We will shortlist 3 from this list for your setup and send a written comparison in 24 working hours.
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