PII Redaction & Logging Policy Builder

Protect user privacy in application logs.

PII Redaction

const PII_PATTERNS = {
  email: /\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z|a-z]{2,}\b/g,
  ssn: /\b\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}\b/g,
  phone: /\b\d{3}[-.]?\d{3}[-.]?\d{4}\b/g,
  creditCard: /\b\d{4}[\s-]?\d{4}[\s-]?\d{4}[\s-]?\d{4}\b/g,
};

function redactPII(message: string): string {
  let redacted = message;
  Object.entries(PII_PATTERNS).forEach(([type, pattern]) => {
    redacted = redacted.replace(pattern, `[REDACTED_${type.toUpperCase()}]`);
  });
  return redacted;
}

// Safe logging
logger.info(redactPII(\`User registered: \${email}\`));
// Output: "User registered: [REDACTED_EMAIL]"

Logging Policy

# Logging Policy

## ✅ DO Log

- Request IDs
- User IDs (hashed)
- HTTP status codes
- Response times
- Error types
- Feature flags

## ❌ DON'T Log

- Passwords
- Credit card numbers
- SSNs
- API keys
- Full emails (hash first)
- Full names
- Addresses

Output Checklist

• Redaction rules defined
• Logging policy documented
• Safe logger wrapper
• Team trained
• Log monitoring ENDFILE