This page describes the data risk and sensitivity levels that Sensitive Data Protection assigns to data profiles. To understand the data risk levels, it's important to understand the sensitivity levels first.
Sensitivity level
Sensitivity level is an indication of how sensitive the data in a project, table, or file store is. Data is sensitive if it contains detected elements, such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial data, and credentials.
A data profile can have any of the following sensitivity levels:
- High
- Highly sensitive personal information might be present, including credit card numbers and certain national identifiers.
- Moderate
- Sensitive information that is not classified as highly sensitive might be present. Examples are email addresses and phone numbers, which can be considered personally identifiable. The data might also include freeform text or unstructured data, such as comments.
- Low
- Sensitive information wasn't detected, and the data doesn't include freeform text or unstructured data.
Data risk level
Data risk level is the risk associated with the data in its current state. It considers the sensitivity level of the data in the resource and the presence of access controls to protect that data.
- High
- High-sensitivity data might be present, and there are no access controls to restrict data exposure. Alternatively, moderate or high-sensitivity data is widely accessible.
- Moderate
- Moderate-sensitivity data might be present, and there are no access controls to restrict data exposure.
- Low
The sensitivity level of the data is low. Alternatively, access to the data has been further restricted, for example, through access controls.
A profiled data asset can also get a
Low
data risk level if you enabled automatic tagging and opted to automatically set the data risk of the profiled data assets toLow
.
Sensitivity calculation
To calculate sensitivity, Sensitive Data Protection considers the following:
- The likelihood that highly sensitive infoTypes are present.
- Whether the data has an unstructured format and contains mostly freeform text, like comments.
Data risk calculation
To calculate data risk, Sensitive Data Protection considers the following:
- The calculated sensitivity level of the data.
- The presence of access controls that limit access to the data.
- Whether discovery is configured to set the data risk level to
Low
when automatic tagging is enabled. For more information, see Enable the automatic tagging in the discovery configuration.