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cdjac0bsen
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Apr 20, 2017

still confused on Explicit Entities Learning

I'm sorry to be so dense, Eric Novak, but maybe explaining it in our situation would help. We have the wildcard entity (*) defined for URLs and file types in our base policy for all apps. At some p...
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Erik_Novak
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Apr 26, 2017

Well, the suggestion will be to add the URL by name, regardless of which learning method you use. So it's the "same" suggestion either way. The real question is when you would see the suggestion and why it triggered. Take a look at the violations for URLs on your blocking settings page--they apply to the wildcard as well.