U.K. national insurance number (NINO)

This sensitive information type entity is included in the EU National Identification Number sensitive information type. It's also available as a stand-alone sensitive information type entity.

Format

seven characters or nine characters separated by spaces or dashes

Pattern

two possible patterns:

• two letters (valid NINOs use only certain characters in this prefix, which this pattern validates; not case-sensitive)
• six digits
• either 'A', 'B', 'C', or 'D' (like the prefix, only certain characters are allowed in the suffix; not case-sensitive)

OR

• two letters
• a space or dash
• two digits
• a space or dash
• two digits
• a space or dash
• two digits
• a space or dash
• either 'A', 'B', 'C', or 'D'

Checksum

No

Keyword Highlighting

Supported

When keyword highlighting is supported in the contextual summary for a sensitive information type or a trainable classifier, in the Contextual Summary view of activity explorer, the keywords in a document that were matched to a policy are highlighted.

Definition

A DLP policy has high confidence that it's detected this type of sensitive information if, within a proximity of 300 characters:

• The function Func_uk_nino finds content that matches the pattern.
• A keyword from Keyword_uk_nino is found.

A DLP policy has medium confidence that it's detected this type of sensitive information if, within a proximity of 300 characters:

• The function Func_uk_nino finds content that matches the pattern.

    <!-- U.K. NINO -->
    <Entity id="16c07343-c26f-49d2-a987-3daf717e94cc" patternsProximity="300" recommendedConfidence="75" relaxProximity="true">
      <Pattern confidenceLevel="85">
        <IdMatch idRef="Func_uk_nino" />
        <Match idRef="Keyword_uk_nino" />
      </Pattern>
      <Pattern confidenceLevel="75">
        <IdMatch idRef="Func_uk_nino" />
      </Pattern>
    </Entity>

Keywords

Keyword_uk_nino

• national insurance number
• national insurance contributions
• protection act
• insurance
• social security number
• insurance application
• medical application
• social insurance
• medical attention
• social security
• great britain
• NI Number
• NI No.
• NI #
• NI#
• insurance#
• insurancenumber
• nationalinsurance#
• nationalinsurancenumber