PII In Splunk

[IRHM73]

Hi, I wonder whether someone could help me please.

Firstly forgive me for what may a stupid question.

But could someone tell me, is it possible to remove all PII from Splunk Enterprise even if you don't know all the field names containing it. I suspect this would have to be done at indexing?

Many thanks and kind regards

Chris

[FrankVl · Accepted solution]

In general of course it is impossible to remove things you don't know about. And yes, to remove it properly it would have to be done at indextime, for instance using SEDCMD in props.conf.

If you don't know the exact fields or position in the logs, but you do know the kind of patters you want to mask/remove (e.g. social security numbers / credit card numbers / ip addresses / email addresses), you can use SEDCMD to mask anything matching those patterns.

This page in the docs describes it in more detail: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Anonymizedata

[IRHM73]

Hi @FrankVl.

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my message and for the confirmation.

Kind Regards

Chris