Privacy Hub tracks the current protection status of source data columns based on:
Column sensitivity, either from the most recent sensitivity scan or from manual assignments
Assigned table modes
Assigned generators
To display Privacy Hub, either:
On the workspace management view, in the workspace navigation bar, click Privacy Hub.
On Workspaces view, click the workspace name.
From Privacy Hub, you can:
Review and apply the recommended generators for all detected sensitive columns
View the current protection status of columns
Manually mark columns as sensitive or not sensitive
Configure protection for sensitive columns
Download a preview Privacy Report
Run a new sensitivity scan
You can also track the history of changes to column sensitivity and the assigned column generators. For more information, go to Tracking changes to workspaces, generator presets, and sensitivity rules.
The sensitivity scan detects specific types of sensitive data.
If your workspace contains any columns that the sensitivity scan identified, and for which you have not either:
Assigned a generator
Marked as not sensitive
Then Tonic Structural displays a Sensitivity Recommendations banner that contains a count of those columns.
The count only includes sensitive columns that the sensitivity scan detects. If you manually mark a column as sensitive, it is not included in the list.
On the banner, the Review Recommendations option allows you to review the detected columns and the recommended generators for each detected sensitive data type.
You can then apply the recommended generators or ignore the recommendation. When you ignore a recommendation, you either:
Indicate to remove the generator recommendation for the column.
Indicate that the column data is not sensitive.
For more information, go to Reviewing and applying recommended generators.
The protection status panels at the top of Privacy Hub provide an overview of the current protection status of the columns in the source data.
Each panel displays:
The number of columns that are in that category
The estimated percentage of columns that are in that category
From each panel, you can display details for and configure protection for each column.
The column counts do not include columns that do not have data in the destination database. For example, if a table is assigned Truncate table mode, then Privacy Hub ignores the columns in that table.
The information on these panels updates automatically as you change whether columns are sensitive and assign generators to columns.
The At-Risk Columns panel reflects columns that:
Are populated in the destination database.
Are marked as sensitive.
Have the generator set to Passthrough, which indicates that Structural does not perform any transformation on the data.
For each column, the At-Risk Columns panel also indicates the sensitivity confidence, from full confidence (completely red) to low confidence (a small percentage of red).
The goal is to have 0 at-risk columns.
Click Open in Database View to navigate to Database View. The column list is filtered to show columns that are at risk.
The Protected Columns panel reflects columns that:
Are populated in the destination database.
Are assigned a generator other than Passthrough.
It includes both sensitive and non-sensitive columns.
Note that a column is considered protected based solely on the assigned generator. Some more complex generators, such as JSON Mask or Conditional, allow you to apply different generators to specific portions of a value or based on a specific condition. However, the protection status does not reflect these sub-generators. An applied sub-generator could be Passthrough.
Click Open in Database View to navigate to Database View. The column list is filtered to show all included columns that are protected.
The Not Sensitive Columns panel reflects columns that:
Are populated in the destination database.
Are marked as not sensitive.
Have the generator set to Passthrough.
Click Open in Database View to navigate to Database View. The column list is filtered to show included columns that are not sensitive and are not protected.
The Database Tables list shows the protection status for each table in the source database. You can view the number of columns that have each protection status, and update the column configuration.
The list does not include tables where the table mode is Truncated or Preserve Destination. Truncated tables are not populated in the destination database. For Preserve Destination tables, the existing data in the destination database does not change.
For each table, Database Tables provides the following information:
Name - The table name. For a file connector workspace, each table corresponds to a file group.
Not Sensitive - The number of not sensitive columns in the table. Not sensitive columns are not marked as sensitive and have Passthrough as the generator. Click the value to navigate to Database View, filtered to display the not sensitive columns for the table.
Protected - The number of protected columns in the table. Protected columns have an assigned generator. A protected column can be either sensitive or not sensitive. Click the value to navigate to Database View, filtered to display the protected columns for the table.
At-Risk - The number of at-risk columns in the table. These columns are marked as sensitive, but have Passthrough as the generator. The goal is to have 0 unprotected sensitive columns. Click the value to navigate to Database View, filtered to display the at-risk columns for the table.
Privacy Status - Indicates the current protection status of the columns in the table. It provides the same view and configuration options as the protection status panels at the top of Privacy Hub.
You can filter the Database Tables list either by the table name or by the schema.
To filter the list by table name, in the filter field, begin typing text in the table name. As you type, Structural updates the list to only display matching tables.
To filter the list to only include tables that belong to a specific schema:
Click Filter by Schema.
From the schema dropdown list, select the schema.
When you select a schema, Structural adds it to the filter field.
You can sort the Database Tables list by any column except for the Privacy Status column.
To sort by a column, click the column heading. To reverse the sort order, click the heading again.
The Privacy Status column in the Database Tables list indicates the protection status of the columns in the table.
This column provides the same options to view and configure columns as the protection status panels at the top of Privacy Hub, but is limited to the columns in a specific table.
Each protection status panel displays a series of boxes to represent the columns that apply to that status. For example, if the source data contains four columns that are at-risk, then the At-Risk Columns panel displays four boxes, one for each column.
The Privacy Status column in the Database Tables list displays the same set of boxes for the columns in an individual table.
If the number of columns is too large to fit, then the last box shows the number of additional columns that apply. For example, if there are 15 columns that don't fit, then the last box is labeled +15.
When you hover over a box, the column name displays in a tooltip.
When you click a box, the details panel for that column displays.
When you click the box for remaining columns, the details panel for the first column in the remaining columns displays.
You can use the next and previous icons at the bottom right of the details panel to display the details for the next or previous column.
The column details panel opens to the settings view. The settings view contains the following information:
The table and column name.
Whether the column is flagged as sensitive.
The type of PII that the column contains.
The data type for the column data.
The generator that is assigned to the column.
For a child workspace, whether the column configuration is inherited from the parent workspace. For columns that have overrides, you can reset to the parent configuration.
Required workspace permission: Configure column sensitivity
From the settings view of the column details, you can configure the column sensitivity.
You cannot change the sensitivity of columns in a child workspace. A child workspace always inherits the sensitivity from its parent workspace. For more information, go to About workspace inheritance.
As you change the column sensitivity, Structural updates the protection status panels.
To change whether the column is sensitive, toggle the Sensitive option. The column is moved if needed to reflect its new status. However, you remain on the current panel.
For example, from the At-Risk Columns panel, you change a column to be not sensitive. The column is moved to the Not Sensitive Columns panel. When you click the next or previous icons, you view the details for the next or previous column on the At-Risk Columns panel.
Required workspace permission: Configure column generators
From the column details, you can assign and configure the column generator.
When you change the column generator, Structural updates the protection status panels.
If the column generator was previously Passthrough, then the column is moved to the Protected Columns panel. However, you remain on the current panel. For example, you assign a generator to a column that is on the At-Risk Columns panel. The column is moved to the Protected Columns panel, but when you click the next or previous icons, you view the details for the next or previous column on the At-Risk Columns panel.
For sensitive columns that are not protected, Structural displays the recommended generator as a button.
For self-hosted instances that have an Enterprise license, the recommended generator is the built-in generator preset.
To assign the recommended generator to the column, click the button.
Otherwise, select the generator from the Generator Type dropdown list.
For more information about selecting a generator, go to Assigning and configuring generators.
If the selected generator requires additional configuration, then below the Generator Type dropdown list is an Edit Generator Options link.
To display the configuration fields for the generator, click Generator Options.
For information about configuring a selected generator or generator preset, go to Assigning and configuring generators.
After you configure the generator, to return to the settings view, click Back.
Required workspace permission:
Source data: Preview source data
Destination data: Preview destination data
From the column details, you can display sample data for the column. The sample data allows you to compare the source and destination versions of the column values.
To display the sample data, click the view sample (magnifying glass) icon.
On the sample data view of the column details:
The Original Data tab shows the values in the source data.
The Protected Output tab shows the values that the generator produced.
Required license: Professional or Enterprise
From the column details, you can view and add comments on the column. You might use a comment to explain why you selected a particular generator or marked a column as sensitive or not sensitive.
From the column details, to display the comments for the column, click the comment icon.
The comments view displays any existing comments on the column. The most recent comment is at the bottom of the list. Each comment includes the name of the user who made the comment.
To add the first comment to a column, type the comment into the comment text area, then click Comment.
To add an additional comment, type the comment into the comment text area, then click Reply.
Required license: Enterprise
The Privacy Report files that you download from Privacy Hub or the workspace download menu provide an overview of the current protection status based on the current configuration.
This is different from the Privacy Report files that you download from the data generation job details, which show the protection status after the data generation.
You can download either:
The Privacy Report .csv file, which provides details about the table columns, the column content, and the current protection configuration.
The Privacy Report PDF file, which provides charts that summarize the privacy ranking scores for the table columns. It also includes the table from the .csv file.
From the workspace management view, click the download icon. In the download menu:
To download the Privacy Report PDF file, click Download Privacy Report PDF.
To download the Privacy Report .csv file, click Download Privacy Report CSV.
From Privacy Hub, click Reports and Logs, then:
To download the Privacy Report .csv file, click Privacy Report CSV.
To download the Privacy Report PDF file, click Privacy Report PDF.
For more information about the Privacy Report files and their content, go to Using the Privacy Report to verify data protection.
Required workspace permission: Run sensitivity scan
Privacy Hub provides an option to manually start a new sensitivity scan. For example, you might want to run a new sensitivity scan when:
You add columns to the source database. The new scan identifies whether the new columns contain sensitive data.
The data in a column changes significantly, and a column that Structural originally marked as not sensitive might now contain sensitive data.
You cannot run a sensitivity scan on a child workspace. Child workspaces always inherit the sensitivity results from their parent workspace.
To run a new sensitivity scan, click Run Sensitivity Scan.
When Structural runs a new sensitivity scan:
Structural analyzes and determines the sensitivity of any new columns.
It does not change the sensitivity of existing columns that you marked as sensitive or not sensitive.
For existing columns that you did not change the sensitivity of:
Structural does not change the sensitivity of existing columns that the original scan marked as sensitive.
It can change the sensitivity of existing columns that the original scan marked as not sensitive.
The protection status panels are updated to reflect the results of the new scan.
