Using managed data identifiers in Amazon SNS - Amazon Simple Notification Service
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Using managed data identifiers in Amazon SNS

What are managed data identifiers?

Amazon SNS managed data identifiers are designed to detect a specific type of sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, Amazon secret access keys, or passport numbers for a particular country or region. When you create a data protection policy, you can configure Amazon SNS to use these identifiers to analyze messages going through the topic, and take actions when they are detected.

Amazon SNS can detect the following categories of sensitive data by using managed data identifiers:

  • Credentials, such as private keys or Amazon secret access keys

  • Device identifiers, such as IP address or MAC address

  • Financial information, such as credit card numbers

  • Health information, for PHI such as health insurance or medical identification numbers

  • Personal information, for PII such as driver’s licenses or social security numbers

Within each category, Amazon SNS can detect multiple types of sensitive data. The topics in this section list and describe each type and any relevant requirements for detecting it. For each type, they also indicate the unique identifier (ID) for the managed data identifier that's designed to detect the data. When you create a data protection policy, you can use this ID to include the managed data identifier for message data protection to detect.

Keyword requirements

To detect certain types of sensitive data, Amazon SNS scans for keywords in proximity of the data. If this is the case for a particular type of data, a subsequent topic in this section indicates specific keyword requirements for that data.

Keywords aren’t case sensitive. In addition, if a keyword contains a space, Amazon SNS automatically matches keyword variations that don’t contain the space, or contain an underscore (_) or a hyphen (-) instead of the space. In certain cases, Amazon SNS also expands or abbreviates a keyword to address common variations of the keyword.

Amazon SNS managed data identifiers for sensitive data types

The following table lists and describes the types of credential, device, financial, medical, and personal health information (PHI) that Amazon SNS can detect using managed data identifiers. These are in addition to certain types of data that might also qualify as personally identifiable information (PII).

Region-dependent data identifiers require the identifier name with a dash, and the two letter (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) codes. For example, DriversLicense-US.

Identifier Category Countries/Languages
BankAccountNumber Financial

DE, ES, FR, GB, IT

CepCode

Personal

BR

Cnpj

Personal

BR

CpfCode

Personal

BR

DriversLicense

Personal

AT, AU, BE, BG, CA, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, US

DrugEnforcementAgencyNumber

Health

US

ElectoralRollNumber

Personal

GB

HealthInsuranceCardNumber

Health

EU

HealthInsuranceClaimNumber

Health

US

HealthInsuranceNumber

Health

FR

HealthcareProcedureCode

Health

US

IndividualTaxIdentificationNumber

Personal

US

InseeCode

Personal

FR

MedicareBeneficiaryNumber

Health

US

NationalDrugCode

Health

US

NationalIdentificationNumber

Personal

DE, ES, IT

NationalInsuranceNumber

Personal

GB

NationalProviderId

Health

US

NhsNumber

Health

GB

NieNumber

Personal

ES

NifNumber

Personal

ES

PassportNumber

Personal

CA, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, US

PermanentResidenceNumber

Personal

CA

PersonalHealthNumber

Health

CA

PhoneNumber

Personal

BR, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, US

PostalCode

Personal

CA

RgNumber

Personal

BR

SocialInsuranceNumber

Personal

CA

Ssn

Personal

ES, US

TaxId

Personal

DE, ES, FR, GB

ZipCode

Personal

US

Supported Identifiers that are language/region independent

Identifier Category

Address

Personal

AwsSecretKey

Credentials

CreditCardExpiration

Financial

CreditCardNumber

Financial

CreditCardSecurityCode

Financial

EmailAddress

Personal

IpAddress

Personal

LatLong

Personal

Name

Personal

OpenSshPrivateKey

Credentials

PgpPrivateKey

Credentials

PkcsPrivateKey

Credentials

PuttyPrivateKey

Credentials

VehicleIdentificationNumber

Personal