SharePoint Fingerprinting Wizard

SharePoint Fingerprinting Wizard - General

Administrator Help | Forcepoint DLP | Version 8.7.x

Use the General page of the SharePoint fingerprinting wizard to name the classifier and configure its high-level properties:

Enter a Name for the files you are fingerprinting, such as "finance documents."

Enter a Description of this set of documents.

Use the Crawler drop-down list to elect which crawler to use to perform this fingerprinting.

The crawler is the agent that scans documents looking for sensitive data. There may be several in a network if there are many documents to manage.

Typically, it is best to select the crawler closest in proximity to the file folder.

Under Fingerprinting Mode, select which type of fingerprinting to perform:

Select Sensitive content to identify the content files and documents to fingerprint.

Select Ignored section to identify parts of secured documents that the system should not analyze. This might include disclaimers, copyrights, and logos.

Ignored sections are immediately enforced for every fingerprint. It is not necessary to add Ignored Section classifiers to a rule or policy. The classifier filters out files that are being fingerprinted before they're fingerprinted.

Under Fingerprinting Method:

Select Content similarity to look for similarities between the scanned content and the file. This method provides greater security, because it detects sections of the document as well as exact file matches.

Select Exact match to find only exact matches (the scanned content matches the binary signature for the entire file). This method is quicker, but will not find a match if even 1 character in the file is changed.

For large directory structures with many files, Forcepoint recommends you initially set up an exact match classifier for immediate protection, then go back and change it to content similarity.

Click Next to continue. See SharePoint Fingerprinting Wizard - Site Root.