Season 2 · Episode 1719
Why PII Detection Still Fails at Scale
Regex alone is brittle; NER is expensive. See how hybrid frameworks like Presidio balance speed and accuracy to stop data leaks.
My Weird Prompts · Daniel Rosehill
March 29, 202624m 6s
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Show Notes
From a $50M bank fine to the limits of regex, we explore why PII detection fails and how Microsoft Presidio and enterprise DLP tools actually work. Learn the hybrid approach combining pattern matching with NER, the trade-offs between open-source flexibility and enterprise governance, and why false positives remain the biggest headache for security teams.