Understanding Classification for Data Discovery

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This article is for the V1 experience, which is scheduled for deprecation later this calendar year.

The V2 engine is available by default as of OneTrust 202405.2.0 release. To review content for the V2 experience, see the Entity Classification Services (V2) section in the Data Discovery Knowledge Base.

Classifiers allow users to capture a wider view of a data category to populate data discovery results. Instead of a generic Contact Information PII label, admins can enable multiple classifiers such as Number, Email, Address, etc., for improved results, and then decide how they want to map them back to their default data elements.

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For a complete list of all currently available classifiers, see Supported Classifiers & Regions.