Data types
Akto comes with a set of pre-defined data types already eg Email, Phone number, IP address etc. You can find the list of data types in your dashboard by checking out
Settings > Data types.
Akto provides a lot of ways to customize data types.
- 1.Go to
My accounts>Settings> selectData types - 2.Select the data type you want to modify
- 3.Look for the
Sensitive in RequestandSensitive in Responseoptions - 4.If you set it to
True, Akto will start marking the pattern as sensitive across all your APIs for all your collections. Note that the new type will be detected as new data is processed. No old data will be processed. - 5.If both are set to
False, Akto will still detect it, but won't show up in sensitive data
- 1.Go to
My accounts>Settings> selectData types - 2.Hover on the data type and click on the
Trashicon to deactivate the data type. - 3.Akto will stop detecting this type as new data comes in.
- 4.If you want to reactivate it, you can scroll to the bottom to find the deactivated type and click on the
Checkicon to activate.
- 1.Go to
My accounts>Settings> selectData types - 2.Click on the
Plusbutton at the top - 3.Name your data type eg.
TXN_ID - 4.Add patterns to identify it. You can match against the key (eg. key contains
txn_id) or you can match against the value as shown. - 5.Adjust the sensitivity. Here, we want
TXN_IDto be sensitive only in responses - 6.Click on
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