Card expiration dates

Detects references to card expiration dates in financial and compliance documents. Commonly found in international regulatory filings, transaction records, and audit documentation.

Type

regex

Engine

boost_regex

Confidence

medium

Confidence justification

identifier/document-structure anchored regex with constrained context replaces phrase-only detection. Added context gating and exclusion rules improve precision and reduce incidental matches.

Detection quality

Mixed

Jurisdictions

global

Regulations

GDPR, PCI-DSS

Data categories

financial

Scope

wide

Platform compatibility

Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?is)\b(?:card\s+expiration|expiry\s+date|valid\s+thru|valid\s+through|expiration\s+date|card\s+validity|exp\s+date|credit\s+card|debit\s+card|payment\s+card)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

card expiration dates, card, expiration, dates, financial, accounts, payments, fiscal, monetary, accounting, treasury, audit, revenue, expenditure, budget, ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, balance sheet, profit and loss (+30 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

• card expiration — Primary topic phrase match
• expiry date — Case-insensitive topic phrase match
• valid thru — Alternative topic phrase match
• valid through — Additional topic phrase match

Should not match

• unrelated generic text without domain phrases — No relevant topic phrases present
• placeholder value 12345 — Random text should not match topic-specific regex
• payroll reimbursement — Generic word pair from old broad template should not match

Known false positives

• Financial terminology appearing in published reports, accounting textbooks, regulatory guidance, or template documents without actual transaction data. Mitigation: Require corroborative evidence keywords within the proximity window. Cross-reference with structured financial identifiers to confirm actual sensitive data.
• In English (as the primary international business language), standard business terminology overlapping with financial detection keywords in routine correspondence and documentation. Mitigation: Increase confidence threshold when scanning business correspondence. Layer with transaction-specific patterns for higher precision.

References

• https://docs-prv.pcisecuritystandards.org/PCI%20DSS/Standard/PCI-DSS-v4_0_1.pdf
• https://handbook.apra.gov.au/standard/cps-234