End-of-Life (EoL)
Data Pattern Settings
Select to
define the categories of sensitive information that you may want
to filter. For information on defining data filtering profiles,
select Objects
> Security Profiles > Data Filtering.
Objects
Custom Objects
Data Patterns
You can create three types of data patterns for the firewall
to use when scanning for sensitive information:
- Predefined—Use the predefined data patterns to scan files for social security and credit card numbers.
- Regular Expression—Create custom data patterns using regular expressions.
- File Properties—Scan files for specific file properties and values.
Data Pattern Settings | Description |
|---|---|
Name | Enter the data pattern name (up to 31 characters).
The name case-sensitive and must be unique. Use only letters, numbers,
spaces, hyphens, and underscores. |
Description | Enter a description for the data pattern
(up to 255 characters). |
Shared | Select this option if you want the data
pattern to be available to:
|
Disable override ( Panorama only ) | Select this option to prevent administrators
from overriding the settings of this data pattern object in device
groups that inherit the object. This selection is cleared by default,
which means administrators can override the settings for any device group
that inherits the object. |
Pattern Type | Select the type of data pattern you want
to create: |
Predefined Pattern | Palo Alto Networks provides predefined data
patterns to scan for certain types of information in files, for
example, for credit card numbers or social security numbers. To
configure data filtering based on a predefined pattern, Add a
pattern and select the following:
|
Regular Expression | Add a custom data pattern.
Give the pattern a descriptive Name , set
the File Type you want to scan for the data
pattern, and enter the regular expression that defines the Data Pattern .For
regular expression data pattern syntax details and examples, see: |
File Properties | Build a data pattern to scan for file properties
and the associated values. For example, Add a
data pattern to filter for Microsoft Word documents and PDFs where
the document title includes the words “sensitive”, “internal”, or
“confidential”.
|
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