# Data Loss Prevention (dlp) - [Main page](https://cloud.google.com/dlp) - *Fully managed service designed to help you discover, classify, and protect your most sensitive data.* # Tech thinks to remember - ## Use cases - Data Loss Prevention discovers, classifies and **masks** sensitive data - Data like: personally identifying information (PII), credentials, keys, country specific identifiers. - Measure the re-identification risk - Uses InfoTypes which are patterns to identify sensitive data like: - date of birth - authentication tokens - passwords - social security numbers - [Full list from Google Cloud Doc](https://cloud.google.com/dlp/docs/infotypes-reference) ### Inspection jobs Check a dataset using the InfoTypes. It returns the: - InfoType - likelihood score - location ### Risk Analysis jobs To do after masking. To get an idea of how protected is the data.