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Data minimization is written as a collection rule and broken as an egress event. Every file and prompt an employee hands a third party expands the footprint your policy just shrank. dope.security enforces minimization where it actually fails.

Typosquatting defense is usually a registry arms race: buy the variants, watch the feeds, block the list. The damage happens inside TLS on a laptop. dope.security inspects at egress, on the device, where the credential actually goes.

Data sovereignty programs map where data is stored and ignore where it gets decrypted. If a cloud proxy inspects your traffic in a foreign PoP, that is an unreviewed cross-border transfer. dope.security inspects on the device.

Most DLP policies are detection policies wearing enforcement clothes. How to write a DLP policy that names the destination and the enforcement point, not just patterns.