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Manage Patterns

Requirements:

  • Native SDD enabled and turned on
  • Immuta permission GOVERNANCE

Create a pattern

  1. Click the Discover icon in the navigation menu and select the Patterns tab.
  2. Click Create New.
  3. In the modal, enter a name for the new pattern.
  4. Write a Description for the type of data the pattern will find.
  5. Select the Type of pattern.
    1. For regex and column name regex, enter the regex.
    2. For dictionary, enter the values you want the pattern to match and toggle the switch on if you want them to be case-sensitive.
  6. Click Create Pattern.
  7. See the Manage rules page to add your new pattern to a framework.

Note that all user-created patterns must be a 90% match or greater for the contents of the column to be tagged.

Edit a pattern

Editing a pattern will affect any rule built off the pattern throughout Immuta. To edit a pattern,

  1. Click the Discover icon in the navigation menu and select the Patterns tab.
  2. Click the name of the pattern you want to edit.
  3. Click Edit.
  4. Edit the field you want to change. Note any field shadowed is not editable, and the pattern must be deleted and re-created to change them.
  5. Click Save.

Built-in patterns cannot be edited.

Delete a pattern

Deleting a pattern will remove it from Immuta and remove all the rules that relied on it in the frameworks throughout Immuta. To delete a pattern,

  1. Click the Discover icon in the navigation menu and select the Patterns tab.
  2. Click the three dot menu in the Action column for the pattern you want to delete.
  3. Select Remove.
  4. Click Confirm.

Built-in patterns cannot be deleted.