The economic case for DLP rested on a stable ratio between attacker cost per exfiltration event and defender cost per prevented event. Six weeks of pipeline data show that ratio fully inverted. Large language models collapsed attacker cost to a prompt; defender cost has not moved. DLP programs that have not restructured their architecture are now structurally underwater, and five independent exfiltration channels are the evidence.
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