What is discovery?

Discovery is the act of automatically scanning data at rest, classifying it, and potentially enforcing an action on the classification.

Discovery can be performed by two Forcepoint DLP system components:

The crawler performs network discovery.
Forcepoint DLP Endpoint performs endpoint discovery.

Both components perform essentially the same activity.

Once the documents are classified as having matched a policy rule, an action plan associated with this rule is executed. The action plan specifies what happens next, and this can include running a remediation script.