Data Loss Prevention

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2025-05-12

Case Sensitive Custom Word Lists

You can now configure custom word lists to enforce case sensitivity. This setting supports flexibility where needed and aims to reduce false positives where letter casing is critical.

2025-05-07

Send forensic copies to storage without DLP profiles

You can now send DLP forensic copies to third-party storage for any HTTP policy with an Allow or Block action, without needing to include a DLP profile. This change increases flexibility for data handling and forensic investigation use cases.

By default, Gateway will send all matched HTTP requests to your configured DLP Forensic Copy jobs.

2025-04-14

New predefined detection entry for ICD-11

You now have access to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2025 edition of the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) ↗ as a predefined detection entry. The new dataset can be found in the Health Information predefined profile.

ICD-10 dataset remains available for use.

2025-02-03

Block files that are password-protected, compressed, or otherwise unscannable.

Gateway HTTP policies can now block files that are password-protected, compressed, or otherwise unscannable.

These unscannable files are now matched with the Download and Upload File Types traffic selectors for HTTP policies:

• Password-protected Microsoft Office document
• Password-protected PDF
• Password-protected ZIP archive
• Unscannable ZIP archive

To get started inspecting and modifying behavior based on these and other rules, refer to HTTP filtering.

2025-01-20

Detect source code leaks with Data Loss Prevention

You can now detect source code leaks with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with predefined checks against common programming languages.

The following programming languages are validated with natural language processing (NLP).

• C
• C++
• C#
• Go
• Haskell
• Java
• JavaScript
• Lua
• Python
• R
• Rust
• Swift

DLP also supports confidence level for source code profiles.

For more details, refer to DLP profiles.

2025-01-15

Payload log match visibility

When viewing decrypted payload log matches, DLP now provides more context by listing multiple DLP matches and the matching DLP profile.

2024-11-25

Profile confidence levels

DLP profiles now support setting a confidence level to choose how tolerant its detections are to false positives based on the context of the detection. The higher a profile's confidence level is, the less false positives will be allowed. Confidence levels include Low, Medium, or High. DLP profile confidence levels supersede context analysis.

2024-11-01

Send entire HTTP requests to a Logpush destination

In addition to logging the payload from HTTP requests that matched a DLP policy in Cloudflare Logs, Enterprise users can now configure a Logpush job to send the entire HTTP request that triggered a DLP match to a storage destination. This allows long-term storage of full requests for use in forensic investigation.

2024-09-03

Exact Data Match multi-entry upload support

You can now upload files with multiple columns of data as Exact Data Match datasets. DLP can use each column as a separate existing detection entry.

2024-05-23

Data-at-rest DLP for Box and Dropbox

You can now scan your Box and Dropbox files for DLP matches.

2024-04-16

Optical character recognition

DLP can now detect sensitive data in jpeg, jpg, and png files. This helps companies prevent the leak of sensitive data in images, such as screenshots.