Sensitive Data Protection documentation

Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) is now a part of Sensitive Data Protection. The API name remains the same: Cloud Data Loss Prevention API (DLP API). For information about the services that make up Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection overview.

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Sensitive Data Protection provides access to a powerful sensitive data inspection, classification, and de-identification platform.

Sensitive Data Protection includes:

Over 150 built-in information type (or "infoType") detectors.
The ability to define custom infoType detectors using dictionaries, regular expressions, and contextual elements.
De-identification techniques including redaction, masking, format-preserving encryption, date-shifting, and more.
The ability to detect sensitive data within streams of data, structured text, files in storage repositories such as Cloud Storage and BigQuery, and even within images.
Analysis of structured data to help understand its risk of being re-identified, including computation of metrics like k-anonymity, l-diversity, and more.
The ability to automatically discover unencrypted secrets and profile data across an organization, folder, or project to identify data assets where high-risk and sensitive data reside.

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