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SaaS Security Administrator's Guide

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.

To start scanning a cloud app, go to Data SecurityApplications<Your Application>View SettingsActionsStart Scanning.

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Verify Permissions on Cloud Apps

Rescan a Managed Cloud App