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Document Classifications

Document Classifications are important because they enable CA Data Protection to detect documents (emails, attachments, files and Web pages) with specific themes, for example, a contract agreement or customer complaint.

You can set up triggers to use a specific document classification. Email, Web, Data At Rest and Data In Motion triggers all support document classifications. When the trigger activates, CA Data Protection compares the active document (for example, this could be an email or a printed file) against the specified classification. If it confirms the match, a policy action is invoked.

Each document classification uses parameters to identify a specific document type defined by you for example, a contract agreement. These parameters contain the rules that enable CA Data Protection to identify this type of document. When classifying a document, CA Data Protection calculates a document score, based on the classification parameters. It uses this to quantify the probability that, for example, a file really is a contract agreement.