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In some web applications, a response may contain sensitive user information, such as credit card numbers or social security numbers (U.S. only). The Data Guard feature can prevent responses from exposing sensitive information by masking the data (this is also known as response scrubbing).
Using Data Guard, you can configure custom patterns using PCRE regular expressions to protect other forms of sensitive information, and indicate exception patterns not to consider sensitive. You can also specify which URLs you want the system to examine for sensitive data.
The system can examine the content of responses for specific types of files that you do not want to be returned to users, such as ELF binary files or Microsoft Word documents. File content checking causes the system to examine responses for the file content types you select, and to block sensitive file content (depending on the blocking modes), but it does not mask the sensitive file content.
Data Guard examines responses that have the following content-type headers:
You can configure one additional user-defined response content-type using the system variable user_defined_accum_type. If response logging is enabled, these responses can also be logged.
When the system detects sensitive information in a response, it generates the Data Guard: Information leakage detected violation (if the violation is set to alarm or block). If the security policy enforcement mode is set to blocking and the violation is set to block, the system does not send the response to the client.