: Start Scanning a Cloud App
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Start Scanning a Cloud App

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Start Scanning a Cloud App

Learn how to start scanning a recently onboarding cloud app on
Data Security
.
After you onboard a cloud app, you must initiate scanning on that cloud app so that
Data Security
can scan for policy violations and data exposure. When you initiate scanning—known as discovery or initial backward scan
Data Security
scans all assets in the associated cloud app. During the discovery process,
Data Security
also matches the assets against enabled default policy rules and identifies incidents. The time required to complete the discovery process depends on the number of assets on your cloud app. However, as soon as you begin to see the assets populate on the
Data Security
Dashboard
, you can assess incidents.
After the discovery process completes,
Data Security
periodically queries for scannable root entities (for example, user, channel, shared drive, etc.) that are not on its list of known entities, and this scan frequency depends on the SaaS app, taking into account optimal performance; however,
Data Security
scans most SaaS apps every 5 minutes and is able to do so without delay if
Data Security
hasn’t reached the rate limit. Each cloud app has unique entities for scanning purposes. When
Data Security
detects such entities, two distinct scan processes trigger automatically:
  • Forward scan
    —Process of scanning newly detected, scanable root entities
    after
    the point of detection. This process occurs automatically, and there is no way to manually trigger this process, nor do you need to.
  • Backward scan
    —Process of scanning newly detected, scanable root entities
    before
    the point of detection. This process occurs automatically, and there is no way to manually trigger this process, nor do you need to.
  1. To start scanning a cloud app, go to
    Data Security
    Applications
    <Your Application>
    View Settings
    Actions
    Start Scanning
    .
    The status changes to
    Scanning
    .

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