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Manage DLP exceptions

Manage DLP exceptions

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Manage DLP exceptions

- [Instructor] There are a few common DLP issues that you may face. The first is too much content that is not sensitive information but it matches the rules which causes false positives. So a false positive is, for example, let's say you typed a number that looks like a driving license number, and even though it isn't, it gets flagged by the DLP. The same is true the opposite way around, so too little content that is sensitive information matches the rules so the protective actions aren't being enforced on that sensitive information. In order for us to tune the DLP policies, there's a couple of different ways. The first one is to use what's called instance count. Instance count means simply how many occurrences of the sensory information type must be present within the rule before it can match. To use the instance count to tune the rules, you need to first make the rules easier to match. So decrease the minimum count…

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