Filter criteria contains filter conditions or queries that are used as policy inputs for an authentication policy. Policy inputs are used to group one or more filter criteria and define the policy conditions of an authentication policy. For example, an IP Filter Criteria define an IP address in the Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) format or a range of IP addresses.

You can create filter criteria for APIs using the same process as filter criteria for adaptive authentication. For details see Filter criteria.