PII Redaction with Power Automate and Azure Cognitive Services

This demo shows how you can use Power Automate with Azure Cognitive Services to automatically redact PII from text.
The corresponding GitHub post can be found below,
github.com/microsoft/Federal-...
Intro: (0:00)
Power Automate Redaction Demo: (0:59)
Flow Action Deep Dive: (2:32)
Download GitHub Sample: (4:21)
Create the Azure Cognitive Services Resource: (5:07)
Upload the Word Template File: (5:56)
Import Flow Template: (6:36)
Configure the Flow: (7:39)
Test the Imported Flow: (8:59)
Wrap Up: (9:24)
Text Analytics API (v3.1-preview.3)
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Types of PII Entities Supported
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...

[@neosmith166]

Amazing video. Thanks for sharing.

[@SteveWinward]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@andrewmoran4818]

This is neat! Didn’t know Power Automate can be combined with other services like this.
I have a couple of questions:
- Is this something that can be applied across the board within the tenant/environment?
- If not, would users with access to create flows themselves have to set this up?
We’re trying to figure out if it’s possible to prevent leakage of PII data if a user builds a flow that bypasses DLP policies.
Thanks!

[@SteveWinward]

Hey Andrew. I want to make sure I understand your question. This video shows how you can call the azure cognitive services api from power automate via an http connector.
Is the goal to prevent that altogether? If so you can use DLP connector policies to block it.

[@fanzfanzilla]

Thank you for the great video. Is there a way to train the AI/ML model to look for new patterns that got missed? Also, in some cases we want to redact dates if they are used in a certain context. For example, if text is referring to date of an event that occurred at a specific date and time, we like to redact.

[@ranjankhakurel4969]

Hi Steve thanks for wonderful video. Can you please provide some insight about redacting pdf document and creating the same one with only changes with redacted text?

[@aaronott7178]

Could something similar be developed to analyze and redact PII from an audio file and save a new redacted audio file?

[@SteveWinward]

That’s a great question. There is an azure speech to text service to translate audio into text. You could the call the PII service on that to find out words to redact. Youd then have to figure out how to redact the audio portions at the correct timestamps. I’ve not done that myself but that’s the approach I would take.

[@georginajovanovic]

What does PII stand for?

[@SteveWinward]

Personally identifiable information.