Use the Fingerprints screen to register sensitive content for fingerprinting, acquire fingerprints, or schedule fingerprint acquisitions. Fingerprints can be acquired by both the local crawler and the remote crawler.

Fingerprint definitions specify the location and types of sensitive information for DLP to fingerprint. After you register and schedule sensitive content for document fingerprinting, DLP uses a mathematical algorithm to extract multiple fingerprint patterns per document. Fingerprints help identify the document later even if the document is partially altered. Fingerprinting works best with unstructured content, such as reports, email, and articles.

Access the Fingerprints screen at Data Protection → Data Identifiers → Fingerprints.

Fingerprinting documents is a two-step process: