Find and redact

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Glasswall Meteorโ€™s Find and redact tool is a data loss prevention feature which allows users to set customized rules to identify and remove sensitive information in Office documents.

Note: this feature is currently only available in โ€˜previewโ€™ mode.

  1. From the Welcome screen or from the side navigation menu, select Find and redact.

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  1. Click Add new rule. You will arrive at the Create your rule screen.

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  1. Select the appropriate tab for the custom rule you would like to create.

For every rule, the following actions can be assigned:

  • Find - identify files containing sensitive information.
  • Redact โ€“ obscure or remove sensitive information.
  • Block โ€“ stop a file from moving into your clean files.
  1. Enter a name for your new rule in the Name your rule field.

  2. Add your regular expression code in the corresponding field.

Note: currently the regular expression matching is case insensitive.

  1. If you selected the Redact tab, enter the appropriate character in the Replace your character field.

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  1. Click Save rule.

Once a rule is created, it will be applied to all files processed via Clean files now or Sync and clean.