How to handle false positives effectively?

False positives can be remediated in two ways:

  • Adding device/web domain to the boundary
  • Modifying data rule
  • Steps to follow

    To add device/website to the boundary:

  • Click on the Policies tab under Endpoint DLP
  • Select your policy
  • Under False Positives, select Enterprise Perimeter
  • Add the devices/web domain to the perimeter using the Fine Tune option.
  • To modify the data rule:

  • Under False Positives, select Data Classification
  • Fine Tune or Remove the required rule
  • Increase the occurrence count of the pattern in the case of a RegEx rule to fine-tune the rule. To fine-tune the policy, improve the match percentage in document matching and update the document with more relevant terms in keyword matching.
  • If frequent false positives are raised due to a predefined data rule, report the issue to ManageEngine.