Chapter 15 Unified Threat Management for FortiOS 5.0 : Data leak prevention : Data leak prevention concepts : DLP sensor
  
DLP sensor
A DLP sensor is a package of filters. To use DLP, you must enable it in a security policy and select the DLP sensor to use. The traffic controlled by the security policy will be searched for the patterns defined in the filters contained in the DLP sensor. Matching traffic will be passed or blocked according to how you configured the filters.