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Highlighting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Across SQL Server

Let's take a look at highlighting personally identifiable information (PII) across SQL Server.

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With the recent regulatory pressures such as GDPR, being able to know what type of data we are holding onto within our business becomes a bigger challenge. At Redgate, we have been exploring ways to make this easier for our heavy SQL Server users and eliminate the problems around this area by making it easy to efficiently highlight where you are holding Personally Identifiable Information (PII) among your SQL Server estate.

We have been iterating on this area with a set of users we have been working very closely with as part of our Data Catalog Early Access Program (EAP), and the main pain we have identified is around the time it takes to complete the initial classification job to highlight what type of data we have within our business, which is mainly what I want to talk about in this post.

SQL Data Privacy Suite EAP Solution

SQL Data Privacy Suite is Redgate's solution to address the pains around the efficient classification of your columns across your SQL Server estate and allows you to take advantage of this work within other capabilities such as provisioning.

From the very beginning, the latest SQL Data Privacy Suite (SDPS as short) EAP release gives you a high-level overview across your SQL Server estate. For instance, you are immediately represented with the summary of sensitivity label distribution with an instance.

Once we drill down into one of the SQL Servers, we can also see that we are presented with the sensitivity label distribution per database. You can also notice that the solution offers auto discovery of classification suggestions make it easy to get started with classifying the columns decrease the time taken to complete the classification job.

By default, we save the classification information into the schema of your database through the column level extended properties. However, we have heard from our customers that it is not always a possibility in certain cases to update the database schema. We took this feedback and introduced a way to configure the storage place of the classification information so that you can store them outside your database schema without being worried about overriding the information by mistake.

Exposing the Capabilities as REST APIs

Capabilities inside SQL Data Privacy Suite expose their aspects through a set of REST APIs, which can be used to automate certain tasks or create different workflows. Provided Web interface within SDPS also makes use of these REST APIs. Therefore, you will be able to do anything that you can accomplish inside the Web interface through these HTTP endpoints.

On top of that, REST API documentation is released alongside with the SDPS and can be accessed through its Web interface which makes it easy to get started using the REST API:

Thanks for reading! Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.

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