Prevention Rules Supported Actions

Prevention Rules are policies for managing data exfiltration.

With prevention rules you can create policies that block or prompt the user. In addition, allow activities is supported for Web Upload and Cloud Sync Folder and USB.

For additional information, see:

Enabling ITM / Endpoint DLP Prevention Rules

ITM / Endpoint DLP Exit Points

Prevention Rule Supported Actions

The following actions are supported:

  • Block: Activity is blocked. The end user is blocked with an end user notification.

  • Prompt the user to provide a justification. Activity is not blocked and the end user is prompted to select a response. (See Justifications.)

Prevention rules are enabled per Realm. You turn on/off Prevention Enabled in the Advanced Settings of the Agent Realm.

The table describes the supported activities:

Activity Description Action Filters
USB

Copy to USB

Block

Detector

User

File/Resources

Devices

 

Prompt the user to provide a justification

Allow

(Includes Trellix and BitLocker encryption.)

Cloud Sync Folder

Upload to Cloud Sync Folder

(Supported for Windows Explorer only)

Block

Detector

User

Processes/Applications

File/Resources

Devices

Prompt the user to provide a justification

Allow

OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Apple iCloud, Dropbox

 
Send files Using AirDrop Prevent exfiltration via AirDrop (for Mac only from version 4.0) Block

Detector

User

Processes/Applications

File/Resources

Devices

Prompt
Printer

Print files

Print Detection and Prevention

Block

Detector

User

File/Resources

Devices

Prompt the user to provide a justification
Upload files to the Web Web File Upload Block

Detector

User

File/Resources

Prompt the user to provide a justification
Allow

Paste Text from Clipboard

(Windows)

Paste Text from Clipboard

Text Pasted from Clipboard

Block

Detector

User

Processes/Applications

File/Resources

Copy to Network Drive

Copy to Network Drive

File Exfiltration to Network Drive

Block

Detector

User

File/Resources

Prompt the user to provide a justification
GenAI Prompt Submit

Prevent text submitted to GenAI websites based on content scanning of the text prompt

GenAI Prompt Submit Detection and Prevention

Block

Detector

User

Prompt the user to provide a justification
Redact Text