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Security Settings

Overview

Security Settings is a core security control module for system administrators. It uses technologies such as Data Masking and watermarks to protect sensitive data and track its usage, ensuring secure and compliant internal use of enterprise data.

Data Masking

When using Data Masking, inconsistent data management can lead to low-quality data, such as the same field appearing under multiple field names. In that case, you can tag sensitive fields so that detection rules are associated with masking rules in masking templates, reducing the complexity of configuring masking templates in these scenarios.

For example, if the field ID Card Number has different names across multiple Datasets, such as ID Card, identity card, ID card num, or Certificate Number, you can create a tag for ID Card Number.

  1. Go to Admin Center > System Settings > Security Settings > Data Masking, then click Create.

  2. Enter the sensitive field tag and click OK. When Data Masking is used, the system automatically detects sensitive fields in the Dataset and marks them based on the detection result.

Watermark Settings

Entry: Admin Center > System Settings > Security Settings > Watermark

  • Watermark Information: when configuring a watermark, you need to specify the Watermark Type and Watermark Content. You can also choose whether to display the Current Time and adjust the watermark Opacity.

    • If User Attribute Watermark is selected, you can use user basic attributes such as the user's IP address. This makes the watermark different for each user terminal, which helps prevent information leakage and makes tracing easier.

    • If Text Watermark is selected, you can enter any text in Watermark Content to mark ownership and trace distribution sources, providing a low-cost and efficient safeguard for intellectual property and content anti-misuse.

  • Whitelist: during actual use, you may want to hide the watermark only in certain modules while retaining it elsewhere. Guandata therefore provides a watermark exemption Whitelist feature, which lets you control whether each module displays a watermark instead of using one global switch. Users can configure the whitelist after enabling the related feature switch.

    • After the whitelist feature is enabled, users and user groups can be added.
    • Users and user groups in the whitelist will see no watermark when viewing or projecting big screens.
    • Because the watermark whitelist is related to data security, all operations are recorded in the audit log.