McAfee Data Loss Prevention 9.2.2 Product Guide

44UsingMcAfee DLP DiscoverMcAfee DLP Discover scans file systems, databases, and endpoints to identify and protect sensitivedata at rest in file systems or databases. When incidents or events are reported, they can beautomatically protected by moving, copying, encrypting, or deleting unstructured data that mightcompromise the security of the repository.Database records can be moved, copied, or encrypted, but not updated or deleted.ContentsTypical scenariosRegistering documents and structured dataCrawling databasesOptimizing scanning with data classificationManaging scansScan statesManaging scan loadSearch discovered dataRemediating incidentsGetting scan statistics and reportsConfiguring McAfee DLP DiscoverTypical scenariosUse the following scenarios to get a general understanding of how McAfee DLP Discover can be used toperform some routine scanning tasks.Scheduling lengthy scans to run at regular intervalsWhen you schedule a scan to run at regular intervals, it will run until it completes unless an end timeis defined on the Schedule page. If the scan is still running at the time of the next scheduled interval,that instance is skipped, and scanning restarts at the following one.For example, if a daily scan that has no end time starts running on Monday at 9 a.m. and completes49 hours later, it will restart Thursday at 9 a.m.McAfee Data Loss Prevention 9.2.2 Product Guide 71