Network Discovery Rule - Database rule

Rule options

Rule name

Enter a unique name for the rule. This field is required.

Description

Click Edit to open the description text box. The maximum description length is 2000 characters. The character counter in the lower left of the window shows the number of characters still available. This field is optional.

State

Select Enabled or Disabled from the drop-down list. You can also change this parameter on the DLP Rule Set page by selecting a rule or rules and selecting Actions → Change State. The default is Disabled.

Severity

A relative measure of the gravity of violating this rule. The default is Warning. The color code that also appears in the DLP Incident Manager is displayed next to the field.

Conditions tab

Classification

Specifies a predefined classification. Use the Boolean comparisons AND, OR, NOT to specify multiple classifications.

Repository

Specifies the repository scanned.

Exceptions tab

Note

The Exceptions tab is optional.

Actions

Adds or deletes a rule exception.

Name

Enter a unique name for the exception. This field is required.

Description

Optional descriptive text.

State

Select Enabled or Disabled from the drop-down list. The exception state is independent from the rule state.

Classification

Select a classification. See above for option details. The exception classification is independent from the rule classification.

Repository

Select a repository to exclude from the rule.

Reaction tab

Action

Select an action from the drop-down list. The default is No Action.

Note

Selecting No Action with Report Incident is sometimes referred to as Monitor.

For a list of prevent actions for different types of rules, see the available reactions table.

Report Incident

Select the checkbox for the rule to trigger a DLP incident.

Store Original File

Select to store the original file as evidence. If the hit highlighting option is enabled for the evidence server, the trigger text is highlighted and stored as a separate file.