Sensitive Data Discovery Automation
About the automation
Sensitive Data Discovery automation scans through your resources, identifies the resources which have sensitive data classifications identified via the Sensitive Data Discovery tool, and enumerates resources in a report. It simplifies the process of locating confidential information and managing its security.
Activate this automation when you want an efficient way to manage the classifications of sensitive data obtained from your sensitive data discovery tool.
Important
If you don't have Sensitive Data Discovery this automation is not applicable to you and you should not use it.
Configuring the automation
Important
Only Organization administrators can view, configure, and run automations.
To configure the automation:
On the Organization profile page, go to the Automations tab.
In the Automation templates section, locate the Sensitive Data Discovery template. Click the Configure button.
In the Configure Sensitive Data Discovery window, on the first screen set the following and click Next.
Automation name: A name for the automation.
Automation description: A brief description.
In the Configure Sensitive Data Discovery window, on the next screen set the following and click Next.
Collection: Select the collection for the automation.
Resource types: Select the resource types the automation should check. Only resources of these types will be monitored for sensitive data.
On the last screen, select the Trigger Daily option if you want schedule the automation to run daily. Click Save.
Enabling automations
Once you have setup the automation, enable it so that the access requests can start going through the process.
To enable an automation:
On the Organization profile page, go to the Automations tab.
In the Automation section, locate the automation you want to enable and open it by clicking it.
Click the Enable automation link. This option is available only for automations that have never been enabled. If you enable an automation and then disable it, it cannot be enabled again.
Running the automation
To run the automation:
On the Organization profile page, go to the Automations tab.
In the Automation section, locate the automation you want to run. Open the Automation details page.
Click the Run button.
After the automation is done running, a report is generated and made available in the Project created for the automation.
Viewing the report
To view the automation run report:
On the Organization profile page, go to the Resources tab.
From the Resources tab of the Organization profile page, locate the Project that contains the report for the automation. View the details captured by the automation. Each time the automation runs, it adds a new report to the same project.
Disabling automations
Important
Once you disable an automation it cannot be enabled again. Any requests that are in progress will not be available for any further action.
To disable an automation:
On the Organization profile page, go to the Automations tab.
In the Automation section, locate the automation you want to disable and open it.
Click the Disable automation link.