Data Discovery Policies and Policy Groups

Data Discovery Policy is used by Sensitive Data Discovery and allows searching database for sensitive information located in tables/columns.

Manage Data Discovery Policies

Go to Policy > Data Discovery Policies to add/enable/disable/delete/import/export Data Discovery Policies.

The following table indicates columns and meanings in the Data Discovery Policies list.

Columns Descriptions
Status
  • Enabled ()
  • Disabled ()
Policy Name policy name
Policy Type Built-in or User defined. The built-in policies cannot be deleted.
Match Rule Match rule for searching data
Column Name Pattern Pattern for matching table column's name.
  • Allow regular expression
  • Left blank for skipping column name match check
  • Data Discovery will check column name match first, and:
    • if matched, continue to check sample data match
    • if not matched, abort sample data match checking
Data Pattern Pattern for matching sample data content.
  • Allow regular expression
  • Left blank(or regular expression ".+") for skipping sample data match check
  • If sample data matched with data pattern, will continue to check with Match Rule

Data Discovery Policy Groups

Data Discovery Policy Group will be assign to Sensitive Data Discovery, to search database for data discovery.

Go to Policy > Data Discovery Policy Groups to manage groups of Data Discovery Policy.

Click 'Group Name' to edit group, click 'Add' button to add new group, select group check box, and click 'Delete' button to delete group.




FortiDB 5.0.0 Handbook
1st Edition , July 11 2013
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