Entity Types
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Overview
An entity type is what DryvIQ is detecting. The DryvIQ Platform comes with preinstalled entity types that cover a wide range of data, but you also have the option to create custom entity types. Entity types are assigned to a category that identifies the type of data being detected and a match type that identifies how the data is being detected. This page provides a high-level overview to help you understand entity types. To learn more about a specific match type, refer to the DryvIQ Platform documentation page for that particular match type.
You can download a complete list of the preinstalled entity types to review descriptions for the over 160 entity types in the DryvIQ Platform.
Categories
Categories identify the type of data being detected. DryvIQ comes with the default categories listed below. You can also create custom categories if one of the default categories doesn’t capture the entity type you want to identify. (See Managing Categories for information about creating and managing custom categories.)
Category | Description | |
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| 1 | Credentials/Passwords/Keys | This category includes entity types related to the technology field, such as:
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| 2 | Driver's License Numbers | This category includes the entity types for US driver’s license numbers for each US state. |
| 3 | Duplicate Data Identification | This category contains entity types used for duplicate data detection:
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| 4 | File Properties | This category includes entity types used to identify various file properties:
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| 5 | Financial/PCI | These entity types are for financial information, such as:
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| 6 | GDPR | This category includes all entity types covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Note that this is a separate extension package offered by DryvIQ. This category includes the following entity types:
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| 7 | Metadata | This category includes entity types that identify file metadata:
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| 8 | Permissions | This category includes entity types used to identify file permissions:
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| 9 | PII | This category includes entity types that identify personally identifiable information (PII) in a document:
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Match Type
Match type is how the data is being detected. DryvIQ supports four match-type methods.
Match Type | Description | |
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| 1 | A block list allows matching on a given list of keywords within a file. | |
| 2 | This is a custom classification model plugged into the system. DryvIQ has the following preinstalled classification entity types: | |
| 3 | A regular expression is a pattern used to identify text. It allows you to control the content DryvIQ detects at a fine-grained level. | |
| 4 | Transformation | A transformation entity type allows you to generate a new value by applying a custom metadata expression against any prior matches. This option is available only through the DryvIQ API. |
