PII detection without the false positives, lag, or brittle rules

PII detection pain points slow teams down, create compliance risk, and burn time that could be spent building features. The problem is not just finding personally identifiable information—it’s finding it with speed, accuracy, and context before it hits storage, logs, or analytics pipelines.

Many detection tools flood teams with false positives. Alerts pile up, engineers tune them out, and eventually sensitive data passes unchecked. Other tools are slow, scanning only after ingestion, triggering days or weeks after the fact. That delay turns a small issue into an urgent incident.

Format diversity makes detection even harder. PII is not only email addresses or phone numbers—it appears in free text, nested JSON fields, PDF attachments, and API payloads. The variety of locations and formats means rules quickly become brittle. Regex rules break, new data structures go unscanned, and the scope of exposure grows.

Compliance pressure is relentless. GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and internal security policies all demand fast, precise detection. But compliance is the floor, not the ceiling. A real solution protects data before it’s ever written, not just after audits flag it.

The right PII detection approach should integrate at the edge of your system. It should scan both structured and unstructured data in real time, support custom entity types, and adapt to changing schemas without manual reconfiguration. It should give you explainable results so you can act instantly and confidently.

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