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Available Scanning Options

Scan OptionDescriptionAvailable Configurations
AccessScans file server permissions and access controls to identify who has access to what.Share selection (all shares or custom), file-level permissions, concurrent workers (1–20), scan depth
Sensitive DataScans file contents for sensitive data patterns such as personally identifiable information (PII), credentials, protected health information (PHI), and financial records. The first scan runs in full; subsequent scans run differentially, collecting only changes since the last run.Share selection (all shares or custom), sensitive data types, optical character recognition (OCR), differential scan

Scan Configuration​

Access

  • Include Shares — Select All shares to scan every share on the server, or Custom selection to specify which shares to include.
  • Exclude Shares — Enter share paths to skip. Wildcards are supported (for example, \\fileserver\*\temp*).
  • Hidden shares — Select Automatically enumerate hidden shares to include hidden shares. Use Exclude Hidden Shares to skip specific ones (for example, ADMIN$, C$, IPC$).
  • File-level permissions — Select Include file-level permission data to collect permissions at the individual file level in addition to folder level. This increases scan time.
  • Workers — Sets the number of concurrent enumeration threads. Default is 3; valid range is 1–20. Increase to improve scan speed; decrease to reduce load on the file server.
  • Scan Depth — Sets the maximum number of directory levels the scan traverses. Default is 50. Reduce this value to limit scanning to the top levels of a directory tree.

Sensitive Data

  • Include/Exclude Shares — Same share selection options as the Access scan.
  • Sensitive data types — Select Inherit from Global Settings to use the system-wide classification configuration, or disable this option to configure types for this source group. Enable each type you want to detect and assign a classification label.
  • OCR — Select Run OCR to scan images, screenshots, and scanned documents for sensitive text using optical character recognition. This increases processing time.