Sensitive data leakage is the major growing problem being faced by enterprises in this technical era. Data leakage causes severe threats for organization of data safety which badly affects the reputation of organizations. Data leakage is the flow of sensitive data/information from any data holder to an unauthorized destination. Data leak prevention (DLP) is set of techniques that try to alleviate the threats which may hinder data security. DLP unveils guilty user responsible for data leakage and ensures that user without appropriate permission cannot access sensitive data and also provides protection to sensitive data if sensitive data is shared accidentally. In this paper, data leakage prevention (DLP) model is used to restrict/grant data access permission to user, based on the forecast of their access to data. This study provides a DLP solution using data statistical analysis to forecast the data access possibilities of any user in future based on the access to data in the past. The proposed approach makes use of renowned simple piecewise linear function for learning/training to model. The results show that the proposed DLP approach with high level of precision can correctly classify between users even in cases of extreme data access.
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