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    Assess Incidents on Data Security

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    Assess Incidents on Data Security

    Learn how to assess incidents on Data Security.
    When you first add a cloud app, Data Security goes through a discovery phase where it:
    • Compares the enabled data patterns and active policy rules against the information about all users associated with your assets.
    • Gathers metadata for the assets (folder, repository, and table names and information about the files, such as the owner and collaborators) and the actual contents of the files.
    • Adds new incidents after it scans the assets.
    Data Security monitors changes in all of your monitored cloud apps. How soon Data Security identifies incidents depends on a variety of factors, including the volume of users and the assets on your SaaS application, and the SaaS application provider’s process for queuing and API throttling.

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