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Categories identify the type of data being detected. Entity types fall into five categories.SkySync comes with the five default categories listed below. You can also create custom categories if one of the default categories doesn’t capture what your entity type will be identifying. (See Managing Categories for information about creating and managing custom categories.)

Category

Description

1

General

This is a catch-all category for any entity type that doesn’t fall into one of the other four categories. Custom entity types are assigned to this category.

2

Financial

These entity types are for financial information such as

  • ABA routing numbers,

  • credit card numbers, and

  • bank account numbers.

3

Privacy

This category is for any entity type pertaining to personally identifiable information (PII). Examples of this type of information include

  • driver license numbers,

  • passport numbers,

  • phone numbers,

  • social security numbers,

  • national numbers, and

  • other national ID numbers.

4

Regulation

Regulation entity types rely on related keywords to find entity types in different areas such as

  • travel,

  • banking/finance,

  • personal, and

  • government.

The built-in Document Type Classifier and Standardized Form Matcher also fall under this category.

5

Technology

This category includes entity types related to the technology field such as domain names and IP addresses.

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