Personally Identifiable Information
Object classification by personally identifiable information (PII) is based on recognizing any personally identifiable artifacts based on industry standards such as NIST-80-122 and FIPS 199. Macie can recognize the following PII artifacts:
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Full names
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Mailing addresses
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Email addresses
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Credit card numbers
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IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6)
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Drivers license IDs (USA)
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National identification numbers (USA)
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Birth dates
As part of PII object classification, Macie also assigns each matching object a PII impact of high, moderate, and low using the following criteria:
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High
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>= 1 full name and credit card
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>= 50 names or emails and any combination of other PII
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Moderate
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>= 5 names or emails and any combination of other PII
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Low
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1–5 names or emails and any combination of PII
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Any quantity of PII attributes above (without names or emails)
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