View Sensitive Types and Categories

In Data Discovery, you can search and view details for sensitive types and sensitive categories.

Search for a Sensitive Type

1. Under Data Safe - Database Security, select Data discovery.
2. Under Data discovery, select Sensitive types.
3. To search by description, in the Search and Filter field, select Description and enter a description.
4. To search by parent sensitive category, in the Search and Filter field, select Parent sensitive category and enter a value.
5. To search by sensitive category, in the Search and Filter field, select Sensitive category and select Yes and/or No.
6. To search by Oracle predefined, in the Search and Filter field, select Oracle predefined and select Yes and/or No.
7. To search by name, in the Search and Filter field, select Name and enter a sensitive type name.

   Sensitive types and sensitive categories that match your search criteria are listed.

8. To search by OCID, in the Search and Filter field, select OCID and enter a value.
9. Select Apply filter.

View Sensitive Categories and Sensitive Type Details

On the Sensitive Types page in Oracle Data Safe, you can view both Oracle predefined sensitive types and user-defined sensitive types and categories. Familiarizing yourself with these sensitive types and sensitive categories is important, as you select them during data discovery to locate sensitive data in your target database.

1. Under Data Safe - Database Security, select Data discovery.
2. Under Data discovery, select Sensitive types.
3. To view the details for either a sensitive type or sensitive category, click on its name in the Name column.
   For a sensitive type, the following details are displayed:

   • Sensitive type name
   • State of the sensitive type
   • Description of the sensitive type
   • Oracle Cloud Identifier (OCID) for the sensitive type
   • Compartment
   • When the sensitive type was created and last updated
   • Parent sensitive category for the sensitive type
   • Whether the sensitive type is a sensitive category
   • Whether the sensitive type is Oracle predefined/user defined
   • Column name pattern, column comment pattern, column data pattern, and search type (AND or OR)
   • Default masking format

   For a sensitive category, the following details are displayed:

   • Sensitive category name
   • OCID for the sensitive category
   • State of the sensitive category
   • Description of the sensitive category
   • When the sensitive category was created and last updated
   • Whether the sensitive category is a sensitive category
   • Whether the sensitive category is Oracle predefined
4. To return to the list of sensitive types, click Sensitive types in the breadcrumb at the top of the page.