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Architecture and High-level Information
A high-level view, including graphics, of Spirion product architecture and functionality.
How to Install\Uninstall and Set Up Spirion Sensitive Data Platform
Use the Installation page to view detailed information about your current installation.
Agents
An Agent is a kind of program, called a worker process, installed locally or on a remote VM, which scans and evaluates locations (cloud or local) for sensitive data such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, etc.
How to Use Dashboards
Gain insights into your data security posture with Spirion Sensitive Data Platform Dashboards. Exposed sensitive data can be measured, tracked, located, and visualized.
How to Use Scans
Scans are the searches that Agents perform on Targets to find either the file locations or find specific data types within the file and folder locations. The Scans screen is where you view, create, and manage your scans.
How to Use Scan Results
This topic covers how to work with the results from a scan as well as what the next steps are after completing a scan..
How to Work with Data Assets and Targets
The Data Assets and Targets page is where you can view and manage Assets and Targets.
How to Create a Policy
This topic guides you through creating a policy using the native policy creation wizard.
How to Use Scan Playbooks
The Scan Playbooks page is where you view and manage your Playbooks. Playbooks, at a high-level, provide logical workflows using interactive flowchart symbols for the discovery, classification, notification, and remediation of sensitive data.
How to Use Tags
Tags are useful for purposes such as organizing Targets/Assets for reporting, policy management, Role-Based Access Control, and other operations within the console. Bulk actions can be performed on Assets which are grouped within a single Tag.
How to Manage Users and Roles
The User Management screen is where you manage the Users and User Roles that can operate Spirion Sensitive Data Platform.
Global Data Types
The Global Data Types page is where you manage your Data Types. These are the types of sensitive data you scan for, such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and custom data types, created and defined by you.
Global Classifications
Global Classifications are standardized taxonomy labels and metadata tags applied to discovered data, files, and assets to categorize them by regulatory scope, business purpose, sensitivity level, or operational process.
Settings and Resources
In Settings and Resources, you can manage your administrative and scan settings as well as Global Classifications and Data Types and find other useful information.
Reports
By creating a custom report that only queries the specific tables and timeframes you need, you can often retrieve data much faster than browsing the entire "Results" database, which may contain millions of rows of irrelevant information.
How to Use Logs
SDP logs provide critical information about your scans and enable you to audit your environment, scan, and remediation performance.
Release Notes
Current and past release notes for Spirion Sensitive Data Platform console and agent, and Spirion Sensitive Data Manager.
How to Troubleshoot Agents
This topic contains articles to help you troubleshoot problem Agents or Agent behavior
Tips
Tips, tricks, and nice-to-know information about SDP.
Featured Articles
How to Create a Single Tenant App for OneDrive and Exchange Online Searches
Spirion now supports creating a single tenant app for the search of OneDrive and Exchange Targets in Sensitive Data Platform.
How to Use Certificates to Authenticate with SharePoint Online
This article describes how to use to use certificates instead of client secrets for scanning SharePoint Online, as many APIs no longer accept client secrets.
Using Custom Data Types: Regular Expression (RegEx) Examples
Using the RegEx custom data type, organizations are able to configure search criteria to include meet their specific needs.
How to Write a Playbook
A Scan Playbook must be selected whenever you create a sensitive data scan. When your sensitive data scan encounters data, Scan Playbooks dictate what data qualifies as a scan result and what remediation actions to take on that data, if any.
Where are Scan Permissions Configured?
Scan permissions in the Spirion Sensitive Data Platform (SDP) are configured in the User Management section of the console, primarily through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).