Standard proximity limits often fail to detect sensitive data in complex documents where related fields are widely separated. If your environment relies on fixed distance constraints, you risk missing detections when data elements, like a name and a social security number, appear far apart within a file.

Customizable Proximity Distance for Exact Data Matching (EDM) addresses this limitation by allowing you to define the maximum character separation between matched data elements. You can now configure the proximity parameter from 25 to 5000 characters, enabling Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (E-DLP) to correlate spatially separated data points into a single, confirmed detection. This flexibility ensures your Enterprise DLP solution can adapt to diverse document formats. The default 100-character setting maintains a balance for general use cases, but you now have the administrative control to adjust this parameter to meet your specific data protection requirements.