Automatic detection of personal identifiable information

A system for automatic detection of personal identifiable information (PII), the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to perform operations comprising:
• receiving one or more computer readable logs of information for one or more computer services, wherein each log includes a string of characters;
• performing one or more string search algorithm based operations on the entirety of the one or more strings of the one or more computer readable logs to identify a range of the one or more strings to be searched for PII that is less than the entirety of the one or more strings;
• performing one or more regular expression algorithm based operations on the range of the one or more strings to identify one or more instances of PII;
• generating an indication of the one or more instances of the PII that are identified;
• and
• outputting the indication.