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Glossary

Glossary

1 - Protegrity terms

This describes the Protegrity-specific term definitions.

Protegrity Insight terms

Audit Store

A database that stores logs on the ESA. The log data shows the health of the system and helps during troubleshooting. The Audit Store is also referred to as Insight.

Audit Store Dashboards

The solution for viewing logs from the Audit Store. The logs entries can be queried and viewed here. The information can also be viewed using charts, graphs, and tables. The Audit Store Dashboard is also called Insight Dashboards.

Insight

The solution for transferring, collating, receiving, and storing logs. It consists of Analytics, Audit Store, Insight Dashboards or Audit Store Dashboards, and td-agent.

Insight Dashboards

The solution for viewing logs from the Audit Store. The logs entries can be queried and viewed here. The information can also be viewed using charts, graphs, and tables. The Insight Dashboard is also called the Audit Store Dashboards.

Protegrity Discover terms

Boost

A boost or weight, discussed in the context of a classifier, is the probability of a keyword getting qualified for the scan, as per the defined regular expression pattern.

Classification

The grouping of data that is done to represent a particular type of sensitive data after evaluation by the classifiers. For example, a collection of 16 digit values evaluated to be a potential credit card number is classified to be a Credit Card Number (CCN).

Classifier

The classifier defines the data identification rules to classify sensitive data from the sampled data.

Confidence Score

It is the score that determines the confidence or severity level in the data classification findings.

Coordinate

A coordinate represents the location of sensitive data, which can be any system, database, schema, table, column, or file path.

Datastore

The datastore base or nodes define the different systems that are supported for a data discovery scan.

Job

A task that you can create to scan a particular coordinate.

Reference

A pre-populated list of names and addresses containing the data dictionaries, such as, common names, city, postal codes, or states. By default, the list is pre-populated with Protegrity Discover to support commonly used data dictionaries.

Referential Data

See Reference.

Node

See Datastore.

Weight

See Boost.