Philter and Phileas Comparison

Philter

What is Philter?

Philter is a turnkey PII redaction solution. Philter is for individual users, organizations, and IT departments who need to either redact text for themselves or provide PII redaction capabilities for an entire organization.

Provides an API for redacting PII.
Available on the AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure marketplaces.
Runs in your cloud without any external connections.
Can identify and redact over 30 types of PII and PHI.
Uses filter policies to define how PII should be identified and redacted.
In addition to redaction, also supports anonymization, encryption, masking, and replacement of PII.
Built on top of Phileas.

Phileas

What is Phileas?

Phileas is an open source project that provides advanced PII redaction capabilities. It's freely available and its license allows anyone to integrate it into their application. Phileas is for software developers and other users who feel comfortable doing things like building source code.

Open source on GitHub.
A Java library that must be integrated into your application.
Can identify and redact over 30 types of PII and PHI.
Uses filter policies to define how PII should be identified and redacted.
In addition to redaction, also supports anonymization, encryption, masking, and replacement of PII.