Regular expression-based policy¶
Note
Fudo Enterprise supports POSIX extended regular expression.
Follow the steps to configure a regular expression-based policy:
- Select > .
- Select Regular expressions tab.
- Click .
- Enter pattern name.
- Define the pattern itself.

Note
- Patterns can be defined as regular expressions.
- Fudo Enterprise does not recognize expressions which use backslash character, e.g.
\d
,\D
,\w
,\W
.
- Repeat steps 3-5 to define additional patterns.
- Click .
Note
Regular expressions examples
Command rm
(^|[^a-zA-Z])rm[[:space:]]
Command rm -rf
(also -fr
; -Rf
; -fR
)
(^|[^a-zA-Z])rm[[:space:]]+-([rR]f|f[rR])
Command rm file
(^|[^a-zA-Z])rm[[:space:]]+([^[:space:]]+[[:space:]]*)?/full/path/to/a/file([[:space:]]|\;|$)
(^|[^a-zA-Z])rm[[:space:]]+.*justafilename
- Go back to Policies tab.
- Click .

- Enter policy name.
- Select policy severity.
Note
Severity parameter value is included in the email notification message.
- Click the Regular expression button in the Policy type section.
- In the Regular expressions field, select the previously created monitoring pattern.
- Select the Match input only option to process input stream only.
Note
In RDP, VNC and MySQL protocols only input data is processed.
- In the Policy Behaviour field, select desired actions to be taken:
- Send email send email notification to system administrator.
- SNMP Trap send SNMP TRAP notification to the receiver.
- - pause connection.
- - terminate session.
- - block user.
Note
- Sending email notifications requires configuring and enabling notification service as well as Session policy match notification enabled in safe configuration.

- Sending SNMP TRAP notifications requires configuring the SNMPv3 TRAP in the System tab. Check the SNMP page for more information.
- Note that blocking the user automatically terminates the connection.
- Click .
- After defining a policy, assign it to a safe that is used to establish connections to servers.
- Select > .
- Edit the selected safe by clicking on its name.
- Go to the tab and select the policy created in the previous step.
- Click .

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