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Discovering sensitive data continues to be a challenge for most organizations. With Microsoft Purview, customers can auto detect sensitive data across their data estate at scale using 200+ classifiers out of the box. Additionally, customers can create custom classifications to meet their specific needs.
I am pleased to announce two enhancements to systems classifications in Microsoft Purview Governance powered by machine learning –
- Person’s Name classifier now supports classifying global full names.
- Person’s Address classifier is a new classifier to detect street addresses.
Both these classifiers are essential to detect PIIs in the data. Previously, Person’s Name classifier used Bloom Filter with a fixed list of names that could only classify U.S. based person name. It only worked if first and last names were stored in separate columns in the database table. With the new improvements, we leverage machine learning to classify full names with much greater accuracy than the current classifier. The enhanced classifier can now detect person names in the data that is stored in tables with column names like Manager, Author, Player, Senator, Representative, User.
Person’s Address classifier can detect physical addresses in various formats. Addresses across the world follow slightly different formats, making the traditional regular expression-based classifiers highly inaccurate. Using machine learning, Microsoft Purview can classify even incomplete addresses when some basic elements like street address, city, and zip code or pin code have been provided.
You can use these new classifiers today by simply updating the scan rule set and selecting these two classifiers. Learn more about creating and updating scan rule sets here. This is the first step on the journey to leverage machine learning to improve the accuracy and coverage of classifications in Microsoft Purview and we are excited to add more such classifiers in the future.
For a full list of classifiers supported by Microsoft Purview see here.
Get started today
- Quickly and easily create a Microsoft Purview account to try the generally available features.
- Learn more about data classifications in Microsoft Purview.
- Best practices to apply classifications and detect sensitive data.