Last week at Google Cloud Next '17, we introduced a number of security enhancements across Google Cloud, including the Data Loss Prevention API. Like many Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products, the DLP API began its life as an internal product used in development and support workflows. It also uses the same codebase as DLP on Gmail and Drive.
Now in beta, the DLP API gives GCP users access to a classification engine that includes over 40 predefined content templates for credit card numbers, social security numbers, phone numbers and other sensitive data. Users send the API textual data or images and get back metadata such as likelihood and offsets (for text) and bounding boxes (for images).
Be smart with your data
The DLP API helps you minimize what data you collect, expose or copy. For example, it can be used to automatically classify or redact sensitive data from a text stream before you write it to disk, generate logs or perform analysis. Use it to alert users before they save sensitive data in an application or triage content to the right storage system or user based on the presence of sensitive content.
Your data is your most critical asset
The DLP API helps you to manage and run analytics on cloud data, without introducing additional risk to your organization. Pre-process with the DLP API, then analyze trends in Google BigQuery, understand context with Google Cloud Natural Language API and run predictive models with Cloud Machine Learning Engine—all on redacted textual content.Try the DLP API out here with our demo application. Watch as it detects credit card numbers based on pattern formatting, contextual information and checksum.
