Use Identifiers in Domains

Private preview: This feature is only available to select accounts.

Identifiers in domains allows you to use the same domains you already organize your data in to hold identifiers and run sensitive data discovery (SDD) without having to use identification frameworks. See the Identifiers in domains guide for more information about the feature and limitations.

Prerequisites

Identifiers can be added and SDD can be run in any of your current domains. However, if you are not already using domains, set up a domain specifically to run SDD:

1. Enable SDD.

2. Register your data sources.

3. Create a domain.

4. Grant the appropriate users the Manage Identifiers permission for the domain.

Add identifiers to a domain

1. Navigate to the Identifiers tab of your domain.

2. Click Get Started.

3. Add reference identifiers to your domain that are relevant to your data by clicking the checkboxes. Note: When added to your domain, the identifier is a point-in-time copy of the reference identifier. It has the same name, pattern, and tags.

4. Click Add Identifiers.

Create a new identifier

This can be done within a domain from the Identifiers tab to create a domain-specific identifier, or it can be done from the Discover Identifiers page to create a reference identifier.

1. Click Create New.

2. Enter a name and description for your identifier.

3. Click Next.

4. Enter criteria: Select the Type of criteria.

   1. For regex, enter a regex to be matched against column values. The default criteria encoding is case-sensitive. You can change this encoding using the regex criteria. The regex must use RE2.

   2. For column name regex, enter a regex to be matched against column names. The default criteria encoding is case-insensitive. You can change this encoding using the regex criteria. The regex must use RE2 syntax.

   3. For a dictionary, enter the values in a comma-separated list to match against column values. Opt to toggle the Case insensitive switch to on if you want the dictionary to be case sensitive.

5. Click Next.

6. Select the tags to apply: Use the text box to search for a tag under the "Discovered" hierarchy or type a tag name to create a new tag under the "Discovered.Entity" hierarchy to apply to columns that match your identifier.

7. Click Next to review your new identifier and click Create Identifier to create it.