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Inspecting and De-Identifying Data With Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: Up to 45 minutes

Students: 2,416

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Description

Data has become an essential and key store of value for enterprises. Because of this, companies need to protect and handle data in a secure and efficient way. Following this guideline, Google offers Cloud Data Loss Prevention (CDLP). This is a fully managed service that helps you analyze, inspect, and de-identify your data. By using CDLP, you can inspect millions of data and understand which of them are sensitive and should be de-identified or encrypted. You can also automatically let it mask your sensitive data (this operation is known as de-identifying). CDLP has more than one hundred infoTypes. An infoType is a type that represents a piece of sensitive information, such as a date, a name, an email address or a phone number. When you let CDLP de-identify your data, it will mask all pieces of information that are associated with one of the predefined infoTypes.

In this lab, you will upload data to a Cloud Storage bucket, you will start an inspection of this data to understand whether it contains sensitive information, and you will de-identify sensitive information by using REST APIs.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

Set up an inspection of data stored in Cloud Storage
Review the result of inspection to understand whether data contains sensitive information
De-identify sensitive data inside a text file