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Check each data store's sensitivity label against what it holds

On the register, a wrong sensitivity label looks exactly like a right one. This app reads a sample of each store's documents, marks which kinds of sensitive data are really there, and shows whether the recorded label is too low.

For the data governance deskCross-domain

Why it matters

Today's manual process, and the same job with the app

A data governance desk checking the sensitivity labels on a company's data stores.

✕Today's manual process

1Pull a sample of documents from each store the register lists.
2Read every document and decide whether it really holds personal, payment or pay details, or only mentions them.
3Compare with the recorded label, store by store, in a spreadsheet.
4One missed store means the wrong people can read it, and nothing on the register shows it.
Every sample read manually

✓With the app

1Each sample is read in full, against your own sensitivity standard.
2Every kind of data gets an answer: held, not held, or could not tell, with the line that proves it.
3The right label is worked out from those answers and set beside the recorded one.
4Under-labelled stores come forward for your desk to decide. Nothing is changed automatically.
People decide only on the stores flagged

See it work

One real case, read by the app, step by step

A store labelled CONFIDENTIAL holds a real taxpayer number and card number, so it should be RESTRICTED.

Check each data store's sensitivity label against what it holdsReference appBuilt to be shaped to your process
  1. 1The store's sample every record the app reads.
  2. 2Found a real government ID and a real card number.
  3. 3Look-alike, not real a blank template and an empty column do not count.
  4. 4Not found no health record, password or published item in this store.
  5. 5Label too low it needs RESTRICTED and has CONFIDENTIAL, so it is exposed.

For engineers

How it is built, and how we measured it

All fourteen steps of the build are written up, from the business case to running it in your own environment.

Kit overview →
25 of 25under-labelled stores caughtmeasured in 06 Evals →
62 of 64stores judged right on their labelmeasured in 06 Evals →
166 of 172quoted lines found in the documentsmeasured in 06 Evals →
450 of 480individual data checks rightmeasured in 06 Evals →

The build, step by step

14 steps

Make it yours

What you see is a reference app. We shape it to how you work.

Every part of it is built to change, and none of it means starting over.

Your rulesYour own sensitivity standard, its categories and the label each one requires.
Your recordsYour data stores, their register entries and the samples you already take.
Your systemsReads from your data catalogue or register; flagged stores go to your review queue.
Your screensThe store list, fields and wording your governance desk already uses.

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