About the API Detection for Developer Apps Appliance
The Symantec API Detection for Developer Apps Appliance is a virtual (software) appliance that enables you to detect
Symantec Data Loss Prevention
policy violations in on-premises applications that your organization uses. By connecting your on-premises applications to the API Detection for Developer Apps Appliance using a REST client that you develop, you can detect sensitive data in many types of messages or files using the following policy detection technologies:- Described Content Matching (DCM), to detect message content and context, such as keywords, sender and recipient patterns, file properties, and more
- Exact Data Matching (EDM), to detect personally identifiable information
- Exact Match Data Identifiers (EMDI), to detect structured data, especially personally-identifiable information. EMDI provides better matching performance and greater memory efficiency than EDM.
- Indexed Document Matching (IDM), to detect exact files and file contents, as well as derivative content
- Vector Machine Learning (VML), to detect similar document content
- Form Recognition, to detect images of forms containing sensitive information
- Data Identifiers, to match content using precise patterns and data validators
- File Type Detection, to detect file types according to their binary signature
For more information about
Symantec Data Loss Prevention
detection technologies, see Data Loss Prevention policy detection technologies.You must create REST clients for the applications you want to connect using the API Detection for Developer Apps Appliance. The API Detection for Developer Apps Appliance only works with REST clients created with the Detection REST API version 2.0.
After you have deployed and registered the API Detection for Developer Apps Appliance, you configure and manage detection for your applications on the
Manage > Application Detection > Configuration
page in the Symantec Data Loss Prevention
Enforce Server administration console.