Explain Data Sources and Entity Sources

Question 1

Data sources are the

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primary input for personal information discovery for

specific data subjects within a specific organization

Question 2

Data sources are currently not auto-discovered – they

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must be explicitly specified to be used, but we

have a discovery tool that can be leveraged for this purpose

Question 3

Data Sources can be

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structured, semi-structured and unstructured

Question 4

Entity sources are based on

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(structured) data sources

Question 5

At a minimum, a data sources must be

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reachable by a BigID scanner via the standard

protocol for said Data Source

Question 6

Supported Unstructured File Types

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DOCX
DOTX
XLSX
PPTX
PUB
PDF
TXT
CSV
LOG
ZIP
GZ
Parquet

Question 7

To associate discovered personal information with specific entities, it is necessary to

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add and configure at least one Entity Source

Question 8

Entity sources provide a

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Unique ID, Display Name and Residency for each entity. The Unique ID is mandatory and must be unique for each entity (it can be a composite); others are optional

Question 9

BigID can also discover other identifiable attributes in configured data sources based on

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the attributes initially specified in the entity sources (using ‘enrichment)

Question 10

If your data repositories do not contain a sufficiently unique identifier field to use as a Unique ID for Entity Sources, you can

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create a Composite Unique ID from several fields.

Question 11

Without an entity source configured:

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• There is no correlation to entities
• You cannot connect an entity to its data
• Access requests cannot be fulfilled
• Other personal data finding logic will be limited