Ignore sections of my document when fingerprinting?

File fingerprinting can identify both confidential or sensitive information to protect, and information to ignore.

For example, if all documents, both confidential and public, contain a standard copyright statement or disclaimer, the standard text can be identified as an “ignored section.”

  • Text in an ignored section does not trigger policy violations.
  • Ignored sections apply to all policies.

Without the ignored section, if a confidential document containing a disclaimer is fingerprinted, any documents that contain the disclaimer could result in an incident, creating many unintended matches.

  1. Create a file containing only the text that fingerprinting should treat as an ignored section.
  2. In the Data Security module of the Security Manager, go to the Main > Content Classifiers > File Fingerprinting page.
  3. Click New, then choose the type of fingerprint to create: file system, SharePoint, or Domino.
  4. On the General tab of the wizard, select Ignored Section for the Fingerprinting Mode.
  5. On the Scanned Files or Scanned Documents page, click Edit.
  6. In the left pane of the selector, highlight the file containing the text to ignore.
  7. Click the right arrow to move the file into the Include list.
  8. Click OK.
  9. Continue through the wizard, and click Finish when done.
  10. Run the fingerprint scan.