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User Defined Policies

By default, these policies are empty. They allow you to define your own policy criteria. You can use them to test your CA Data Protection setup. They also enable you to define your own custom policies if you have a particular requirement that is not fulfilled by the policy pack.

Common Content

For each user-defined policy, you can define the key text that you want CA Data Protection to detect.

Immediate Disqualifiers

Immediate Disqualifiers are words or phrases which immediately result in a non-match if CA Data Protection detects them in an email, file, or web page. That is, the email, file, or web page definitely does not match the policy criteria. CA Data Protection does not apply policy to these items even if they contain other sensitive words or phrases.

Note: A single word or phrase is sufficient to prevent CA Data Protection from applying policy.

Positive Indicators

Positive Indicators are preferred words or phrases. If CA Data Protection detects these words or phrases in an email, file, or web page, it increases the probability that the item matches the policy criteria.

A single Positive Indicator word or phrase is sufficient to trigger policy if no other excluding criteria are detected (such as excluded file names or URLs).

User Defined 1

This policy detects the key words and phrases that you specify in the Common Content settings.

You can define the severity, the policy action, and the resulting message that is seen by users. For the CA Data Protection Enterprise Edition, you can also assign smart tags to classify any captured items.

• For email policies, you can specify excluded search text (CA Data Protection ignores emails containing these words or phrases). You can also specify included sender addresses (CA Data Protection only applies this policy to emails from these senders).
• For Files In Motion and Data At Rest policies, you can specify excluded file names (CA Data Protection ignores these files) and a minimum file size (CA Data Protection ignores any smaller files).
• For Web policies, you can specify excluded URLs (CA Data Protection does not apply policy to these web pages).

User Defined 2

This policy detects a second set of key words and phrases. It provides the same settings as the User Defined 1 policy, with one difference for email policies.

For email policies, you can specify excluded sender addresses (CA Data Protection ignore emails from these senders).

User Defined 3

This policy detects a third set of key words and phrases. It provides the same settings as the User Defined 1 policy, with one difference for email policies.

For email policies, you can specify excluded sender addresses (CA Data Protection ignore emails from these senders).