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In Netskope, file profiles are used to define file attribute-based matching rules, such as detecting password-protected files or files of a specific type or size range. When the goal is to block uploads of password-protected files using a Real-time Protection policy, the file profile itself cannot be directly applied as a standalone constraint in the policy. Instead, the file profile must be associated with a DLP profile, which is then referenced within the Real-time Protection policy. The DLP engine uses the file profile as part of its match criteria, enabling the policy to take action when a password-protected file is detected. This integration between file profiles and DLP profiles is a core architectural design principle of Netskope’s content inspection workflow.

Netskope provides two built-in mechanisms to monitor the health of IPsec and GRE tunnels configured in the platform. Layer 4 health checks use TCP or UDP probes to verify end-to-end connectivity and reachability through the tunnel, providing active validation that the data path is functional. Dead Peer Detection (DPD) is an IKEv2 protocol mechanism that periodically confirms that the remote peer is still reachable and responsive; if the peer fails to respond, the tunnel is considered down and a re-establishment attempt is initiated automatically. ICMP keepalive probing is not a Netskope-native tunnel health monitoring feature, and the Netskope Trust Portal provides platform-wide service availability status rather than individual tenant-specific tunnel health monitoring.

When a file matches multiple DLP profiles within a single Real-time Protection policy, Netskope generates a separate DLP incident for each matching profile. This behavior is by design and allows security teams to track violations with full granularity across different data classification policies. In this scenario, the file containing source code with both PII and PCI data would trigger a match on both the DLP-PCI and DLP-PII profiles, resulting in two distinct incidents being created. The user action, in this case being blocked, is determined by the policy action and applies uniformly, but incident tracking remains profile-specific. This ensures that compliance teams can report on each data type independently and investigate incidents with the appropriate regulatory context for each classification.

Fingerprint classification in Netskope DLP is designed to identify documents that are derivatives of a known baseline template. In this scenario, the blank patient form represents the template, and any form with patient data filled in would be considered a derivative. Netskope’s fingerprinting engine creates a hash of the blank form and then uses similarity matching to detect documents that share structural characteristics with the template but contain additional user-filled content. This makes fingerprinting the correct DLP rule type for this use case, as it can reliably distinguish between blank forms which are safe to share and completed forms which are confidential. Dictionary-based or Exact Match rules are designed to detect specific text patterns or known data values, not document template similarity or partial completion.