Detectors

Detector are features that allow users to set up alerts for certain parameters during a classification search. A user can set up a Detector to search for keywords within the entire contents of a document or file and search for keyword hits within the file's pathname.

It uses advanced AI and ML search techniques, such as Fuzzy Word Search and Percolation, to search through documents much more quickly than a traditional pattern-matching search, such as Regular Expressions.

An example of a Detector that a user could set up is “Employee Salary”. A user might want to ensure that documents that contain this information are not publicly shared or shared internally throughout an organization.

Steps

  1. In order to set this up, navigate to Administration > Detectors to bring them to the Detector page.

    Here there is a list of pre-defined common Detectors that can be used.

  2. To begin the setup, click on the Create Path Detector button on the top right corner of the screen. Opens the detector editor screen.

  3. Enter a Query Name. For example, Employee Salaries.
  4. Define where the Search Base of the Detector will look (i.e. search through the contents of a file or the file path). For example, to search through the full document contents to look for certain salary-related keywords, select Content.
  5. In the Contain field set the relevant salary-related keywords that might trigger a detector hit in a potentially sensitive document. such as Salary, Compensation Package, Payslip, Payroll, Compensation Structure, or OTE
  6. If there are terms that the Detector is to ignore set them in in the Not Contain field.
  7. Click the Enabled button to turn on and click Save.

    The new detector named employee salaries should now be visible in the list of Detectors.

    A new scan will be needed to detect for Employee Salaries.