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2025-07-17


New detection entry type: Document Matching for DLP

You can now create document-based detection entries in DLP by uploading example documents. Cloudflare will encrypt your documents and create a unique fingerprint of the file. This fingerprint is then used to identify similar documents or snippets within your organization's traffic and stored files.

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Key features and benefits:

  • Upload documents, forms, or templates: Easily upload .docx and .txt files (up to 10 MB) that contain sensitive information you want to protect.

  • Granular control with similarity percentage: Define a minimum similarity percentage (0-100%) that a document must meet to trigger a detection, reducing false positives.

  • Comprehensive coverage: Apply these document-based detection entries in:

    • Gateway policies: To inspect network traffic for sensitive documents as they are uploaded or shared.

    • CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker): To scan files stored in cloud applications for sensitive documents at rest.

  • Identify sensitive data: This new detection entry type is ideal for identifying sensitive data within completed forms, templates, or even small snippets of a larger document, helping you prevent data exfiltration and ensure compliance.

Once uploaded and processed, you can add this new document entry into a DLP profile and policies to enhance your data protection strategy.

2025-06-23


Data Security Analytics in the Zero Trust dashboard

Zero Trust now includes Data security analytics, providing you with unprecedented visibility into your organization sensitive data.

The new dashboard includes:

  • Sensitive Data Movement Over Time:

    • See patterns and trends in how sensitive data moves across your environment. This helps understand where data is flowing and identify common paths. Data Security Analytics Data Flow

  • Sensitive Data at Rest in SaaS & Cloud:

    • View an inventory of sensitive data stored within your corporate SaaS applications (for example, Google Drive, Microsoft 365) and cloud accounts (such as AWS S3).

  • DLP Policy Activity:

    • Identify which of your Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies are being triggered most often.
    • See which specific users are responsible for triggering DLP policies.
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To access the new dashboard, log in to Zero Trust ↗ and go to Analytics on the sidebar.

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.

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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.

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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.