Modifying infoType detectors to refine scan results

Sensitive Data Protection's built-in infoType detectors are effective at finding common types of sensitive data. Custom infoType detectors enable you to fully customize your own sensitive data detector. Inspection rules help refine the scan results that the Sensitive Data Protection returns by modifying the detection mechanism of a given infoType detector.

If you want to exclude or include more values from the results that are returned by a built-in infoType detector, you can create a new custom infoType from scratch and define all the criteria that Sensitive Data Protection should look for. Alternatively, you can refine the findings that Sensitive Data Protection's built-in or custom detectors return according to criteria that you specify. You can do this by adding inspection rules that can help reduce noise, increase precision and recall, or adjust likelihood certainty of scan findings.

This topic discusses how to use the two types of inspection rules to either exclude certain findings or add additional findings, all according to custom criteria that you specify. Presented in this topic are several scenarios in which you might want to alter an existing infoType detector.

The following types of inspection rules are available: