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.

Financial

These entity types are for financial information such as

• ABA routing numbers,

• credit card numbers, and

• bank account numbers.

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.

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.

Technology

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

Regular Expression

Regular expression is a pattern used to identify text. It allows you to have very fine-grained control over what content SkySync detects.

Block List

A block list allows matching on a given list of terms within a piece of content. 

Classification

This is a custom classification model that is plugged into the system.  SkySync has four pre-installed classification entity types:

1. Document Type Classifier,

2. Standardized Form Matcher,

3. Language Detection Module, and

4. PII Extraction Module.

Transformation

A transformation entity type allows for applying a custom metadata expression against any prior matches to generate new value. This option is available only through the SkySync Data Governance and Classification API.