Maintain data protection rules

Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your edition

As your security needs evolve and your dataset grows, you might need to update existing data protection rules. Activating a rule automatically triggers a rescan of all documents within that rule's scope.

View & manage data protection rules

  1. In the Google Admin console, go to Menu and then Security and then Access and data control and then Data protection.

    Requires having the View DLP rule and Manage DLP rule administrator privileges.

  2. For Data protection rules and detectors, click Manage Rules.
  3. (Optional) To export your rules to a text file, click Export rules and specify the file name and location.
  4. Click a rule to edit and update it.

  5. (Optional) To delete a rule, at the end of the rule's row, click More and then Delete rule.

    Deleting a rule is permanent and can't be undone.

Changes can take up to 24 hours but typically happen more quickly. Learn more