IP address

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Format

IPv4:

Complex pattern that accounts for formatted (periods) and unformatted (no periods) versions of the IPv4 addresses

IPv6:

Complex pattern that accounts for formatted IPv6 numbers (which include colons)

Pattern

Checksum

No

Keyword Highlighting

Supported

When keyword highlighting is supported in the contextual summary for a sensitive information type or a trainable classifier, in the Contextual Summary view of activity explorer, the keywords in a document that were matched to a policy are highlighted.

Definition

For IPv6, a DLP policy has high confidence that it's detected this type of sensitive information if, within a proximity of 300 characters:

  • The regular expression Regex_ipv6_address finds content that matches the pattern.
  • No keyword from Keyword_ipaddress is found.

For IPv4, a DLP policy has high confidence that it's detected this type of sensitive information if, within a proximity of 300 characters:

  • The regular expression Regex_ipv4_address finds content that matches the pattern.
  • A keyword from Keyword_ipaddress is found.

For IPv6, a DLP policy has high confidence that it's detected this type of sensitive information if, within a proximity of 300 characters:

  • The regular expression Regex_ipv6_address finds content that matches the pattern.
  • No keyword from Keyword_ipaddress is found.
    <!-- IP Address -->
    <Entity id="1daa4ad5-e2dd-4ca4-a788-54722c09efb2" patternsProximity="300" recommendedConfidence="85">
      <Pattern confidenceLevel="85">
        <IdMatch idRef="Regex_ipv6_address" />
        <Any minMatches="0" maxMatches="0">
          <Match idRef="Keyword_ipaddress" />
        </Any>
      </Pattern>
      <Pattern confidenceLevel="95">
        <IdMatch idRef="Regex_ipv4_address" />
        <Any minMatches="1">
          <Match idRef="Keyword_ipaddress" />
        </Any>
      </Pattern>
      <Pattern confidenceLevel="95">
        <IdMatch idRef="Regex_ipv6_address" />
        <Any minMatches="1">
          <Match idRef="Keyword_ipaddress" />
        </Any>
      </Pattern>
    </Entity>

Keywords

Keyword_ipaddress

  • IP (this keyword is case-sensitive)
  • ip address
  • ip addresses
  • internet protocol
  • IP-כתובת ה