Azure IAAS database connection string and Azure SQL connection string

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Format

The string Server, server, or data source followed by the characters and strings outlined in the pattern below, including the string cloudapp.azure.com or cloudapp.azure.net or database.windows.net, and the string Password or password or pwd.

Pattern

  • the string Server, server, or data source
  • zero to two whitespace characters
  • an equal sign (=)
  • zero to two whitespace characters
  • any combination of between 1-200 lower- or uppercase letters, digits, symbols, special characters, or spaces
  • The string "cloudapp.azure.com", "cloudapp.azure.net", or "database.windows.net"
  • any combination of between 1-300 lower- or uppercase letters, digits, symbols, special characters, or spaces
  • the string Password, password, or pwd
  • zero to two whitespace characters
  • an equal sign (=)
  • zero to two whitespace characters
  • one or more characters that aren't a semicolon (;), quotation mark ("), or apostrophe (')
  • a semicolon (;), quotation mark ("), or apostrophe (')

Checksum

No

Keyword Highlighting

Supported

When keyword highlighting is supported in the contextual summary for a sensitive information type or a trainable classifier, in the Contextual Summary view of activity explorer, the keywords in a document that were matched to a policy are highlighted.

Definition

A DLP policy has high confidence that it's detected this type of sensitive information if, within a proximity of 300 characters:

  • The regular expression CEP_Regex_AzureConnectionString finds content that matches the pattern.
  • The regular expression CEP_CommonExampleKeywords doesn't find content that matches the pattern.
<!--Azure IAAS Database Connection String and Azure SQL Connection String-->
<Entity id="ce1a126d-186f-4700-8c0c-486157b953fd" patternsProximity="300" recommendedConfidence="85">
  <Pattern confidenceLevel="85">
        <IdMatch idRef="CEP_Regex_AzureConnectionString" />
        <Any minMatches="0" maxMatches="0">
            <Match idRef="CEP_CommonExampleKeywords" />
        </Any>
    </Pattern>
</Entity>

Keywords

CEP_common_example_keywords

This sensitive information type identifies these keywords by using a regular expression, not a keyword list.

  • contoso
  • fabrikam
  • northwind
  • sandbox
  • onebox
  • localhost
  • 127.0.0.1
  • testacs.com
  • s-int.net