Credit Cards

Filter

This filter identifies credit cards such as 378282246310005 in text.

Required Parameters

This filter has no required parameters.

Optional Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default Value
creditCardFilterStrategies	A list of filter strategies.	None
enabled	When set to false, the filter will be disabled and not applied	true
ignored	A list of terms to be ignored by the filter.	None
onlyValidCreditCardNumbers	When set to true, only credit card numbers satisfying a Luhn check will be filtered.	true
ignoreWhenInUnixTimestamp	When set to true, only credit card numbers that do not match the pattern for a Unix timestamp will be filtered.	false
onlyWordBoundaries	When set to true, only credit card numbers at regex word boundaries are considered. If false then preceding and succeeding characters will be ignored. This can have performance impacts on large documents with many large numbers in them. The onlyValidCreditCardNumbers option must be set to true for this parameter to have effect.	true

Filter Strategies

The filter may have zero or more filter strategies. When no filter strategy is given the default strategy of REDACT is used. When multiple filter strategies are given the filter strategies will be applied in order as they are listed. See Filter Strategies for details.

Strategy	Description
REDACT	Replace the sensitive text with a placeholder.
RANDOM_REPLACE	Replace the sensitive text with a similar, random value.
STATIC_REPLACE	Replace the sensitive text with a given value.
CRYPTO_REPLACE	Replace the sensitive text with its encrypted value.
HASH_SHA256_REPLACE	Replace the sensitive text with its SHA256 hash value.
FPE_ENCRYPT_REPLACE	Replace the sensitive text with a value generated by format-preserving encryption (FPE)
LAST_4	Replace the sensitive text with just the last four characters of the text.

Conditions

Each filter strategy may have one condition. See Conditions for details.

Conditional	Description	Operators
TOKEN	Compares the value of the sensitive text.	== , !=
CONTEXT	Compares the filtering context.	== , !=
CONFIDENCE	Compares the confidence in the sensitive text against a threshold value.	< , <=, > , >=, ==, !=

Example Policy

{
   "name": "credit-cards-example",
   "identifiers": {
      "creditcard": {
         "onlyValidCreditCardNumbers": false,
         "onlyWordBoundaries": false,
         "creditCardFilterStrategies": [
            {
               "strategy": "REDACT",
               "redactionFormat": "{{{REDACTED-%t}}}"
            }
         ]
      }
   }
}