Default security filters

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title: Default security filters
description: Generally data filters are applied after absolute ACLs \(also sometimes called table-level ACLs\), and after row-level ACLs. They are applied by default, and can be impactful to system behavior if not used carefully.
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breadcrumb: [Security data filters, Access Management]
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# Default security filters

Generally data filters are applied after absolute ACLs \(also sometimes called table-level ACLs\), and after row-level ACLs. They are applied by default, and can be impactful to system behavior if not used carefully.

## Default applied security data filters

Security data filters are applied by default to the following places:

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Category

</th><th>

Application

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

List and Forms

</td><td>

-   UI16
-   Workspaces
-   Service Catalog
-   Service Portal
-   Mobile

</td></tr><tr><td>

Reports and Dashboards

</td><td>

-   Reports
-   Data visualizations
-   Core UI Dashboards
-   Platform Analytics experience dashboards

</td></tr><tr><td>

Data Export

</td><td>

-   Export XML
-   CSV
-   Excel
-   JSON
-   PDF

</td></tr><tr><td>

Flow Engine

</td><td>

Record Lookup steps

</td></tr><tr><td>

Search

</td><td>

-   AI Search
-   Text Search

</td></tr><tr><td>

GlideRecord

</td><td>

-   GlideRecordSecure
-   GlideRecordSandbox
-   GlideAggregateSandbox

</td></tr><tr><td>

REST and GraphQL APIs

</td><td>

-   REST table API
-   REST stats API
-   GraphQL table and stats API equivalent

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>