Content rules identify the content to apply to a policy. Content can include sensitive information in a file, such as user names, credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, and file types.

For DLP rules, you can create templates that include sets of content rules and apply one of those templates to one or more policies. With content rule templates, you can classify content based on more than one context. Because content rules are configured as a separate process from policy creation, you can save time and enable consistent content information in all of the policies you create.

The content rule templates provided with the product, and those you create, are listed in the Content Rule Management page (Protect > Content Rule Management).

The Content Rule Management page has three tabs:

• Document Rule Templates -- Specifies overall rules to apply to documents.
• DLP Rule Templates -- Specifies DLP rules. When customers create a document rule template, they select a DLP rule if the document template is applied to DLP policies. You can use any of the templates provided with the product or create additional templates.

• Data Types -- Specifies data types to apply to this rule. You can use any of the data types provided with the product or create additional data types.

  Perform the steps in the following procedures to create additional data types and templates for configuring content rule management.

• New data types
• New DLP rule templates
• New document rule templates