Data Anonymization & Synthetic Data for AI Model Training

Executive Summary

Organizations need high‑quality data to train AI/ML models—without exposing regulated information. Business Compass LLC provides end‑to‑end services to de‑identify, tokenize, and synthesize data so teams can innovate responsibly while aligning with HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, GLBA, and SOC 2 expectations. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, we design secure pipelines, implement policy‑as‑code, and measure residual re‑identification risk so your models learn from safe, useful data.


Sector

Who This Is For

  • Healthcare (providers, payers, life sciences) handling PHI/PIHI
  • Financial services & fintech handling PAN/PCI, PII, and transaction data
  • Public sector & education (FERPA considerations)
  • Retail & e‑commerce with loyalty, clickstream, and profile data
  • ISVs & data providers that need privacy‑preserving data sharing

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Compliance Alignment (What We Cover)

Key Business Benefits of AWS Cloud Consulting by Business Compass LLC

1

HIPAA

Safe Harbor & Expert Determination pathways; PHI redaction; BAA support; minimum necessary; audit trails

2

PCI DSS

PAN tokenization, truncation, and format‑preserving controls; key management; scope reduction & segmentation

3

GDPR/CCPA/CPRA

Pseudonymization, data minimization, purpose limitation, DSAR enablement, and privacy impact assessments

4

GLBA/SOC 2

Data classification, confidentiality controls, and evidence collection

We build controls to support attestations and audits; final compliance responsibility remains with the customer.


Deliver

What We Deliver

Business Compass LLC cloud consulting process diagram for digital transformation

1

Privacy Risk Assessment & Data Mapping

  • System‑of‑record inventory, lineage, and risk scoring
  • PII/PHI/PCI detection coverage analysis; sampling plan

2

De‑Identification Playbooks

  • HIPAA Safe Harbor: definitive identifier removal
  • Expert Determination: k‑anonymity, l‑diversity, t‑closeness, differential privacy—all tuned to your re‑id risk thresholds

3

PCI Scope Reduction

  • Tokenization (vaulted or vaultless), encryption, and PAN masking
  • Network & data flow segmentation to reduce PCI footprint

4

Synthetic Data Generation for AI/ML

  • Model‑driven tabular, time‑series, and event‑stream synthesis
  • Utility benchmarking vs. source data (predictive fidelity, correlation, and drift checks)

5

PII/PHI Redaction Pipelines

  • NLP‑based entity detection for names, addresses, IDs, medical terms
  • Configurable redaction, generalization, and perturbation strategies

6

Data Utility Preservation

  • Statistical utility tests; downstream task performance checks
  • Smart binning, micro‑aggregation, and noise calibration

7

Privacy Risk Testing

  • Re‑identification simulations & membership inference checks
  • Privacy budget management (ε, δ) for DP workflows

8

Security & Governance

  • Encryption in transit/at rest; KMS/HSM key rotation
  • Lake governance, fine‑grained access, and immutable audit logging

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MLOps Integration

  • Privacy‑aware feature stores, CI/CD for data pipelines, and policy‑as‑code guardrails

Methods & Techniques

  • Pseudonymization & Tokenization (format‑preserving when needed)
  • Masking/Truncation/Redaction (context‑aware)
  • Generalization & Suppression (quasi‑identifier handling)
  • k‑Anonymity, l‑Diversity, t‑Closeness (privacy models)
  • Differential Privacy (query‑based and synthetic‑data DP)
  • Micro‑aggregation & Noise Addition (utility‑aware)
  • Synthetic Data (generative modeling for structured and semi‑structured data)

Reference Architecture (AWS‑Native First)

Ingest & ClassifyQuarantine & ScanDe‑Identify/Tokenize/SynthesizeValidate Utility & RiskGovern & Serve

  • Storage & Ingest: Amazon S3 (bucket‑level segregation), AWS Transfer Family (SFTP), Amazon Kinesis (streaming)
  • Discovery & DLP: Amazon Macie (PII findings), custom NLP for PHI/PCI entities
  • Processing: AWS Glue/Spark, AWS Lambda, Amazon SageMaker (Data Wrangler, processing jobs)
  • Secrets/Keys: AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager
  • Governance: AWS Lake Formation row/column‑level controls, AWS IAM, SCP guardrails
  • Orchestration & Audit: AWS Step Functions, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch
  • Privacy‑Preserving Analytics: Amazon Clean Rooms (for multi‑party analytics), optional DP configurations
  • Model & Data Serving: Private VPC endpoints; access via approved feature store or S3 prefixes

We also integrate with preferred third‑party or open‑source libraries for tokenization and DP, when requested.

Engagement Model (Phases)

  1. Discovery & Planning
    • Stakeholder workshops, data maps, compliance objectives, success metrics
  2. Pilot & Utility Study
    • Build a thin slice: de‑id pipeline + utility & risk tests on a constrained dataset
  3. Scale‑out Implementation
    • Hardened pipelines, governance controls, and CI/CD with policy‑as‑code
  4. Operate & Improve
    • Privacy budget monitoring, drift detection, and quarterly tune‑ups

Measurable Outcomes

  • Documented re‑identification risk thresholds and test results
  • Proven model‑utility parity targets (e.g., within tolerance for key KPIs)
  • Reduced regulated‑data footprint in non‑prod and analytics environments
  • Evidence artifacts for audits (runbooks, data flow diagrams, control mappings)

Sample Deliverables

  • Current‑state & target‑state Data Flow & Risk Map
  • De‑Identification Policy and implementation guide
  • Tokenization Design (PAN, account IDs, device IDs)
  • Synthetic Data Assets with utility/risk report
  • Runbooks for pipeline operations, key rotation, and incident response
  • Control Library mapped to HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, GLBA

Security & Legal

  • Least‑privilege access, VPC isolation, private endpoints, and key management
  • Logging and traceability for all data transformations

Optional Add‑Ons

  • PHI/PCI Data Minimization advisory for application teams
  • Data Clean Room setup for privacy‑preserving partner collaborations
  • Red Team for Privacy: membership inference and linkage‑attack simulations
  • Model Governance: policy‑gated fine‑tuning and retrieval guardrails

Why Business Compass LLC

  • AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with deep data engineering and security expertise
  • Repeatable privacy playbooks and blueprints for regulated industries
  • Collaborative approach focused on practical controls and measurable outcomes
  • Rated 4.9/5 by AWS customers

Next Steps

  • Share 1–2 representative datasets (or schemas) and your compliance objectives
  • We propose a pilot scope with clear success criteria and acceptance tests
  • Align on governance responsibilities and evidence requirements for audits
Get Started Today with Business Compass LLC Cloud Consulting Services

Get Started Today!

Email: contact@businesscompassllc.com
Let’s scope a complimentary readiness call to identify 1–2 ideal pilot workloads.