Does GCP's Cloud DLP protect data in GCP Cloud Source Repositories also?

Question

GCP's DLP API Page has a short description as "Provides methods for detection, risk analysis, and de-identification of privacy-sensitive fragments in text, images, and Google Cloud Platform storage repositories."

I would like to know if GCP Cloud Source Repositories is counted as a Google Cloud Platform storage repositories.

Let me know.

Thanks!

Regards, Yuva

Answer 1

GCP Cloud Source Repositories are not included in DLP processing. You can schedule DLP to scan a variety of data resources that are describe at Inspecting storage and databases for sensitive data. But these are:

• Google Cloud Storage (GCS) - Blob storage.
• BigQuery - Petabyte scale data warehouse.
• DataStore - NoSQL database.

The phrase "Google Cloud Platform storage repositories" is a little confusing but what I believe is meant there is "Google Cloud Storage". Don't let the word "repository" confuse you. There is no story relating to Cloud Source Repositories.

Answer 2

Kolban is correct, however you could scan Cloud Source Repositories using dataflow and inspectContent. Combining dataflow to scan arbitrary data sources using the *content methods is a common solution.