Policies. The Veritas Information Classifier evaluates the items that you submit for classification against a set of policies. Each policy specifies the conditions that an item must meet to be assigned a specific classification tag. The numerous built-in policies cover many of the regulations and corporate standards for which you may want to classify items, and you can create custom policies if you have additional requirements.

See About policies

Patterns. Each of the built-in policies checks the items that you submit for classification for one or more patterns. These patterns use sophisticated algorithms to look for matches that meet the required confidence level. You can incorporate the built-in patterns in any custom policies that you create, and also create custom patterns of your own.

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Tags. When an item that you have submitted for classification meets the conditions of a policy, the Veritas Information Classifier assigns the associated tags to the item. You can create custom tags to add to the large number of built-in ones.

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Analyze. Use this feature to look for policy matches in a sample folder of your organization's file content. You can evaluate the content against all the available policies, or limit the analysis to individual policies or groups of policies.

While the analysis proceeds, the Veritas Information Classifier displays real-time statistics on the percentage of files that may contain sensitive data and their estimated risk level. Then, when the analysis has finished, you can download a report of its findings in PDF and comma-separated value (CSV) formats.

See Analyzing sample content for policy matches