Enterprise Vault™ Classification using the Veritas Information Classifier

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (14.2)
  1. About this guide
    1. Introducing this guide
      1.  
        Relationship between the Veritas Information Classifier and other classification methods
    2.  
      What's in this guide
    3. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault training modules
  2. Preparing Enterprise Vault for classification
    1.  
      About the preparatory steps
    2.  
      What you need
    3.  
      Checking the cache location on the Enterprise Vault storage servers
    4.  
      Setting up the Data Access account
    5.  
      Enabling the Veritas Information Classifier on all Enterprise Vault servers
    6.  
      Configuring the Veritas Information Classifier for secure client connections
  3. Setting up Veritas Information Classifier policies
    1.  
      Introducing the Veritas Information Classifier
    2.  
      Opening the Veritas Information Classifier
    3.  
      Finding your way around
    4.  
      Analyzing sample content for policy matches
    5. About policies
      1.  
        Creating or editing policies
      2.  
        About policy conditions
      3.  
        Enabling or disabling policies
      4.  
        Exporting or importing policies
      5.  
        Resetting policies
      6.  
        Deleting policies
    6. About patterns
      1.  
        Creating or editing patterns
      2.  
        Exporting or importing patterns
      3.  
        Deleting patterns
    7. About tags
      1.  
        Creating or editing tags
      2.  
        Exporting or importing tags
      3.  
        About the Enterprise Vault index properties
      4.  
        How classification property values and retention categories interact
      5.  
        Points to note on setting retention categories
      6.  
        Deleting tags
    8. About sentiment analysis
      1.  
        About sentiment conditions
      2.  
        Enforcing sentiment analysis at a site level
  4. Defining and applying Enterprise Vault classification policies
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault classification policies
    2. Defining classification policies
      1.  
        Configuring classification policies to assign retention categories with the shortest duration
    3.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with classification policies
    4.  
      Associating classification policies with retention plans
    5.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with retention plans
    6.  
      Applying retention plans to your Enterprise Vault archives
  5. Running classification in test mode
    1.  
      About classification test mode
    2.  
      Implementing classification test mode
    3.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for running classification in test mode
    4.  
      Understanding the classification test mode reports
  6. Using classification with smart partitions
    1.  
      About smart partitions
    2.  
      How Enterprise Vault determines whether to archive an item to a smart partition
    3.  
      Setting up smart partitions
    4.  
      Verifying that Enterprise Vault has archived items to smart partitions
  7. Appendix A. Enterprise Vault properties for use in custom field searches
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault properties
    2.  
      System properties
    3.  
      Attachment properties
    4.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties
    5.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for File System Archiving items
    6.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for SharePoint items
    7.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for Compliance Accelerator-processed items
    8.  
      Custom properties for use by policy management software
    9.  
      Custom properties for Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving
  8. Appendix B. PowerShell cmdlets for use with classification
    1.  
      About the classification cmdlets
    2.  
      Disable-EVClassification
    3.  
      Get-EVClassificationPolicy
    4.  
      Get-EVClassificationStatus
    5.  
      Get-EVClassificationTestMode
    6.  
      Get-EVClassificationVICTags
    7.  
      Initialize-EVClassificationVIC
    8.  
      Set-EVClassificationVICFIPSMode
    9.  
      New-EVClassificationPolicy
    10.  
      Remove-EVClassificationPolicy
    11.  
      Set-EVClassificationPolicy
    12.  
      Set-EVClassificationTestMode
  9. Appendix C. Classification cache folder
    1.  
      How Enterprise Vault caches the items that it submits for classification
    2.  
      Limits on the size of classification files
    3.  
      Configuring Enterprise Vault to keep the classification files in the cache folder
  10. Appendix D. Migrating from FCI classification to the Veritas Information Classifier
    1.  
      Converting FCI classification rules for use with the Veritas Information Classifier
  11. Appendix E. Monitoring and troubleshooting
    1.  
      Auditing
    2.  
      Checking the classification performance counters
    3.  
      Troubleshooting classification
    4.  
      Searching archives for items that the Veritas Information Classifier has classified
    5.  
      Troubleshooting language detection

Introducing the Veritas Information Classifier

The Veritas Information Classifier lets you classify items based on their content and metadata. The main areas of the Veritas Information Classifier are as follows:

Note:

Veritas Information Classifier supports Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Internet Explorer 11. Please note that the Analyze feature does not work when Internet Explorer 11 is used.

Note:

Veritas Information Classifier does not support classification of encrypted files.

Policies icon

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 icon

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.

See About patterns.

Tags

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.

You associate each tag with an index property. This is the metadata property of an item in which you want to store the tag. You can also associate the tag with a retention category. By doing this, you can assign the retention category to items at the same time that the Veritas Information Classifier assigns the tag to them.

See About tags.

Analyze icon

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.

For details on policies and patterns, refer to the Veritas Information Classifier Policies and Patterns Guide.