OpenShift PII Catalog: Discover, Classify, and Protect Sensitive Data in Kubernetes
The OpenShift PII Catalog is the control point you need to find, classify, and safeguard Personally Identifiable Information across your clusters. Inside large-scale Kubernetes environments, data flows fast. Without visibility, sensitive information can hide in workloads, logs, and persistent volumes. A PII catalog solves this by providing a real-time, searchable inventory of detected PII across namespaces and projects.
On OpenShift, the PII catalog integrates into CI/CD pipelines, custom operators, and security workflows. It scans application artifacts before deployment, watches data in storage, and tags flagged resources for review. Engineers can set automated rules to block deployments that fail compliance checks or to mask data for downstream testing. All actions are logged for audit trails.
Key benefits of an OpenShift PII Catalog:
- Automatic discovery of sensitive data in containers, config maps, secrets, and logs
- Unified view across nodes, clusters, and multi-cloud OpenShift deployments
- Role-based access controls to limit who can view or handle PII
- Audit-ready reporting to meet GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and internal compliance frameworks
- API and CLI access for seamless integration with existing DevSecOps toolchains
Deploying a PII catalog in OpenShift is not just risk management—it’s operational efficiency. It reduces manual scanning, prevents costly leaks, and documents compliance actions in one source of truth. The catalog’s APIs make it possible to trigger automated remediation, encrypt flagged datasets, or route alerts to SIEM systems without human intervention.
For organizations running regulated workloads on OpenShift Container Platform, a PII catalog becomes part of the cluster’s defense-in-depth. It closes the blind spots where sensitive data hides. It meets security auditors with proof instead of promises. And it turns compliance from an annual scramble into a continuous, automated process.
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