What is not considered PII?Because protecting PII is an important part of keeping your identity—andyour children’s identity—safe, we’re sometimes overprotective of other information about ourselves, like a business phone number, race, religion, gender, workplace, and job title. None of the ...
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is a legal term pertaining toinformation security environments. While PII has several formal definitions, generally speaking, it is information that can be used by organizations on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single per...
Despite being considered a “low-hanging fruit” vulnerability type, information disclosure can significantly impact an organization, including data breaches and theft, exposure of personal identifiable information (PII), financial damages, and legal/compliance repercussions. Let’s look more closely at in...
PII can be labeled sensitive or nonsensitive. Nonsensitive PII is information that can be transmitted in an unencrypted form without resulting in harm to the individual. Nonsensitive PII can be easily gathered from public records, phone books, corporate directories and websites. This might include...
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is personal data that could be used, either by itself or combined with more private details, to identify a particular individual, i.e. you. PII can roughly be split into two subcategories: direct identifiers; and quasi-identifiers. ...
PII is any personal data connected to a specific individual that can be used to uncover their identity, such as social security numbers, full names and phone numbers.
A man-in-the-middle attack (MITM attack) is a cyber attack where an attacker relays and possibly alters communication between two parties.
Voice phishing, or vishing, is a form of social engineering. It is a fraudulent phone call or voice message designed to obtain sensitive information such as login credentials. For instance, the attacker might call pretending to be a support agent or representative of your organization or a subsc...
Disposal:Once PII is no longer required, it should be deleted to minimize the risk of unauthorized access. Untrustworthy Sources:PII should not be provided to untrustworthy sources to prevent its potential misuse or exposure. Physical Security:Physical security measures can help protect...
PII detection is one of the features offered by Azure AI Language, a collection of machine learning and AI algorithms in the cloud for developing intelligent applications that involve written language. The PII detection feature can identify, categorize, and redact sensitive information in unstructu...