What types of attachments are scanned?

Attachment scanning functionality is part of an early access program. You may see a difference between the information below and your Guard administration experience.

Who can do this?
Role: Organization admin, Guard Detect admin
Atlassian Cloud: Atlassian Guard Premium
Atlassian Government Cloud: Available

We scan a wide variety of file types. The following table provides a list of what we scan. New attachment types may be added at any time and may not be reflected in the table immediately.

File type	Extensions
Images	`png`, `jpeg`, `jpg`, `webp`
Adobe Illustrator	`ai`
PDF	`pdf`
OpenDocument Text	`odt`, `ott`, `odm`
OpenDocument Spreadsheet	`ods`, `ots`
Microsoft Office (generic)	—
Microsoft Excel	`xls`, `xlt`, `xla`, `xlsx`, `xlsb`, `xlsm`, `xltx`, `xlam`, `xltm`
WordPerfect	`wpd`
Microsoft PowerPoint	`ppt`, `pptx`, `pot`, `pps`, `pptm`, `potx`, `potm`, `ppsx`, `ppsm`
OpenDocument Presentation	`odp`, `otp`
Microsoft Word	`docx`, `doc`, `dot`, `docm`, `dotx`, `dotm`
OpenOffice 1.0 Document	`sxw`, `stw`, `sxc`, `stc`, `sxi`, `sti`, `sxd`, `std`
OpenDocument Drawing	`odg`, `otg`
Microsoft Visio	`vsd`, `vst`, `vss`, `vsdx`
RTF	`rtf`
Plain text	`txt`
CSV	`csv`
Ruby source	`rb`
Python source	—
Perl source	—
Diff	`diff`
Email (RFC 822)	`rfc822`, `eml`
JSON	`json`
Windows URL shortcut	`url`

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