Large companies and organizations often have large stores of personally identifiable information that is valuable on the black market. Often this takes the form of credit card numbers and passwords, but could also be more specialized information such as:

To detect and block accidental data leaks from your web pages, or mitigate an attack that has managed to evade security and is attempting to harvest your databases, you can configure FortiWeb to detect and block those types of data. For instructions, see “Blocking known attacks & data leaks”.

If even your logs must not contain sensitive information, you can configure FortiWeb to omit it. See “Obscuring sensitive data in the logs”.