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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.
Data types
Akto provides a lot of ways to customize data types.

Modify sensitive settings

  1. 1.
    Go to My accounts > Settings > select Data types
    Data types
  2. 2.
    Select the data type you want to modify
    Select data type
  3. 3.
    Look for the Sensitive in Request and Sensitive in Response options
    Modify sensitive settings
  4. 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.
    Sensitive data
  5. 5.
    If both are set to False, Akto will still detect it, but won't show up in sensitive data

Activate or deactivate

  1. 1.
    Go to My accounts > Settings > select Data types
    Data types
  2. 2.
    Hover on the data type and click on the Trash icon to deactivate the data type.
    Deactivate
  3. 3.
    Akto will stop detecting this type as new data comes in.
  4. 4.
    If you want to reactivate it, you can scroll to the bottom to find the deactivated type and click on the Check icon to activate.
    Reactivate

Add custom types

  1. 1.
    Go to My accounts > Settings > select Data types
    Data types
  2. 2.
    Click on the Plus button at the top
    Add
  3. 3.
    Name your data type eg. TXN_ID
  4. 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.
    Regex
  5. 5.
    Adjust the sensitivity. Here, we want TXN_ID to be sensitive only in responses
  6. 6.
    Click on Save