Data channels for real-time anonymization policies

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated March 28, 2025
  • 1 minute to read

    • Select the data channel for use with real time anonymization(RTA).

    A data channel is the channel taken by your data for processing. You can control which channel RTA discovered data is sent to when configuring an anonymization policy. The following are the data channels available for use with RTA:
    Table 1. Data channels for RTA
    Channel Description Techniques and Patterns supported Role required
    Now Assist Masks sensitive data within prompts and responses.
    • Regular expressions
    • Synthetic data replacement
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    Data Extraction Scrub sensitive data from data shared with ServiceNow to improve our AI systems.
    Note:
    Only available to customers with data sharing enabled. Data sharing is on by default.
    • Regular expressions
    • Synthetic data replacement
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    Data Kit The Now Assist Data Kit plugin for Now Assist enables you to add datasets to a data catalog and create collections for use in ServiceNow SDK.
    • Regular expressions
    • Named entity recognition(NER)
    • Synthetic data replacement
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