Predefined Data Patterns on SaaS Security API
Learn about how SaaS Security API categorizes predefined
data patterns.
Use one of the following topics:
We are in the process of
replacing SaaS Security DLP (Classic) with SaaS
Security DLP. During this process, use the topic that matches
your tenant. If you purchased SaaS Security with Enterprise DLP,
opted in for a trial of SaaS
Security with Enterprise DLP, or have a new tenant with SaaS
Security DLP, use SaaS Security API Data Profiles; otherwise,
use SaaS Security API Data Patterns—SaaS Security DLP (Classic).
SaaS Security API Data Patterns—SaaS Security DLP (Classic)
SaaS Security API provides predefined data patterns
that enable you to discover sensitive content and uncover how that
content is being shared or accessed in your managed cloud applications.
The service automatically scans your cloud applications when you Add Cloud Apps to SaaS Security API using
predefined data patterns, classifies all documents, and checks hash on
all Microsoft Office documents, PDF, and portable executable files
against WildFire rules without requiring you to create any policies.
As the service displays incidents that match the predefined data
patterns, you can explore and filter the results to determine if the
content that the service reported poses a risk to your organization.
Then, you can do any of the following to prevent future violations:
SaaS Security API categorizes predefined data patterns as follows:
Content Category | Scans for |
|---|---|
Intellectual Property 
| Scans files for RSA and AWS secret keys and
confidential documents that are at risk of being stored or shared
in a way that could result in a loss of intellectual property. You
can specify File Extensions to Exclude . Excluding files
that are unlikely to have intellectual property information that
is public and not at risk of being exposed or shared in non-compliant
ways helps minimize false positives. |
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) 
| Scans for PII data, such as U.S., Canadian,
and international social security numbers. It also scans for Tax
IDs from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Germany, and the UK for both
the Unique Tax Payer ID, (UTR) and National Insurance Number (NINO) formats. For
each type of PII that SaaS Security API scans for, you can specify
the minimum number of occurrences required to trigger a match. As
the number of violations for a specific asset exceeds the specified
threshold, the severity of the risk increases. |
Financial Information 
| Scans for financial data including credit card
numbers, credit card magnetic stripe data, international bank account
numbers, financial accounting, bank statements, personal finance, invoices,
and other financial documents. By default, SaaS Security API performs
strict checking on credit card numbers to reduce false positives. |
Healthcare Information 
| Scans healthcare documents for exposure
to sensitive or confidential information, related to Clinical Laboratory Improvement
Amendments (CLIA) number, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) number,
and other healthcare documents. SaaS Security API uses machine
learning algorithms to classify information and to detect sensitive
information. |
Legal Information 
| Scans legal documents for exposure to sensitive
or confidential information related to bankruptcy filings, lawsuits,
business agreements, mergers and acquisition information, patents,
and other legal documents. SaaS Security API uses machine
learning algorithms to classify information and to detect sensitive
information. |
Malware 
| Scans files using WildFire Analysis to detect
and protect against malicious portable executables (PEs), Microsoft
Office Files, Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files, and known
threats based on file hash. A hash is a unique fingerprint
of a file. It is string of letters and digits that is generated as
a result of running a file through a cryptographic hash function. By
default, SaaS Security API automatically submits portable executable
files to the WildFire service for analysis ( Windows executables ). |
SaaS Security API Data Profiles
SaaS Security API provides predefined data profiles,
which include predefined data patterns, that enable you to discover
sensitive content and how that content is being shared or accessed
in your managed cloud applications. Predefined data patterns use
either machine learning or regex based detection for scanned files.
The service automatically scans your cloud applications when you Add Cloud Apps to SaaS Security API using
predefined data patterns, classifies all documents, and checks hash on
all Microsoft Office documents, PDF, and portable executable files
against WildFire rules without requiring you to create any policies.
The predefined data
patterns and data profiles that come with DLP (Data Loss Prevention)
work automatically: you don't enable, configure, or create data
policies to use them, unless you want to open incidents. After your
end users upload files that include social security numbers or credit
card numbers, for example, and SaaS Security API scans theses assets,
SaaS Security API evaluates, identifies, then exposes those assets.
These tools are built into SaaS Security API—they’re automatically
provisioned and protect your data.
- SaaS Security with Enterprise DLP—
- SaaS Security DLP—
SaaS Security with Enterprise DLP provides
you exclusive access to predefined data patterns and data profiles.
SaaS Security web interface displays all predefined data patterns
and data profiles irrespective of your having SaaS Security with
Enterprise DLP, and uses a lock icon to highlight data patterns
and data profiles that require the license.
As the service displays incidents that match the predefined data
patterns, you can explore and filter the results to determine if the
content that the service reported poses a risk to your organization.
Then, you can do any of the following to prevent future violations:
SaaS Security API categorizes predefined data patterns as follows:
Predefined Data Profile | SaaS Security with Enterprise DLP Required? | Scans For |
|---|---|---|
Bulk CCN | Yes | Credit card numbers or Voyager credit card
numbers more than or equal to 100. |
CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) | Yes | Bank - American Bankers Association Routing
Number, Bank - International Bank Account Number, Driver License -
US, Address - US, Tax Id - US - TIN, Credit Card Number, Magnetic
Stripe Information, Passport - US, Address - US, National Id - US
Social Security Number - SSN. |
Corporate Financial Docs | Yes | Financial accounting and generic financial information. |
Financial Information | No | Bank statements, bank routing number, credit
card numbers (strict checking), bankruptcy filing, international bank
account number, invoices, magnetic stripe information, and Committee
on Uniform Securities identification procedure number. |
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) | Yes | GDPR- Driver's License, Tax ID, National
ID, and Passport. |
GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) | Yes | Credit card number, Voyager credit card,
magnetic stripe information, Tax Id - US - TIN, and National Id
- US Social Security Number - SSN. |
Healthcare | No | Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)
number, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) number, and other healthcare
documents. |
Intellectual Property | Yes | Source code, AWS secret key, access key,
company confidential. |
Legal | Yes | Legal- Legal documents including lawsuits,
M&A, standard business agreements, patents, and bankruptcy filings. |
Malware | No | All Microsoft Office documents, PDF, and
portable executable files, and known threats against WildFire. The verdict
is based on a hash, which is a unique fingerprint of a file. |
PHI
(Personal Health Information) | No | Medical codes: ICD-9, ICD-10, NPI codes,
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) number, Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA) number, and more. |
PII (Personally-Identifiable Information) | Yes | Tax ID, National ID, Passport, Driver’s
License, and License plate numbers. |
Profanity | Yes | Censored, blasphemous, personal, homophobic,
racial, and sexual content. |
Secrets
and Credentials | No | Cloud database credentials, Application credentials,
API access tokens, Private keys, miscellaneous secret keys. |
Self Harm | Yes | Self Harm - Suicidal. |
Sensitive content | Yes | National ID, Bank information, AWS Secret
key or access key, company confidential, CCN. |
U.K. PIOCP | No | Tax ID or National ID. |
