Configuring Data Security settings

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For each policy that you create, you can enable data security monitoring and configure the types of data loss and data theft activity that you want to detect. You can use data security monitoring to detect:

Violations of standard regulatory policies

Data theft involving predefined types of information

Web communication involving specific, custom phrases or patterns that may indicate transmission of sensitive or proprietary data.

Open a policy and select the Data Security tab to configure data loss and data theft detection settings.

To enable regulation-based data loss detection, click the link next to Select the geographical regions that you want to regulate, then select one or more regions in the pop-up window.

Select the check box next to one or more types of regulation.

Details about each regulation type are available in the cloud portal Help. Click Help > Explain This Page to open the Help system, then select Data Security Content Classifiers in the left navigation pane (near the bottom of the Contents tree).

Under Data Theft, mark the check box next to each type of data theft that you want to detect.

If you want to define custom classifiers for identifying transmission of your organization's sensitive or proprietary information:

Use the Web > Policy Management > Content Classifiers page to define the phrases or patterns that you want to identify. (See Configure Content Classifiers in the Web Security Cloud help.)

Return to the Data Security tab in your policy to configure how each classifier is used.

Detailed information about defining classifiers is available in the Forcepoint Security Portal Help; click Help > Explain This Page on the Content Classifiers page.

When data loss and data theft incidents are detected, information about them is available in the Data Security Dashboard, as well as the Report Builder and Report Catalog. See Using reporting tools for information about using Report Builder and the Report Catalog.

For more information about how data security information is used and stored in the cloud portal, open the Help > Privacy & Security menu and select Data Privacy FAQ.