A multi-cloud PII catalog gives you one control point over personal data scattered across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other environments. Without it, regulated information hides in storage buckets, databases, and logs beyond your view. With it, you can locate every instance of personally identifiable information fast, classify it, and enforce compliance rules before risk turns into exposure.
A multi-cloud PII catalog connects to each cloud service and scans for PII patterns. Names, email addresses, phone numbers, national IDs, payment data—all detected through automated discovery jobs. The catalog normalizes metadata across providers so you can search and act on data without switching interfaces or formats. Structured and unstructured sources are indexed with the same schema.
Access control is central. A true multi-cloud PII catalog integrates with IAM policies in each platform. It tracks who touched which records and when. It maintains audit logs for investigations. Encryption status, retention policies, data lineage—these are baked into the index so you can prove compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, or internal security benchmarks.
Engineering teams need performance and accuracy. A catalog must run concurrent scans across accounts to keep pace with data creation. False positives cost time; false negatives cost trust. Machine learning detection models can increase precision over regex-only approaches. APIs allow teams to embed catalog lookups into CI/CD pipelines and real-time data flows.