Sensitive Data Discovery Tools

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Rubrik

Rubrik is cloud data management and enterprise backup software provided by Palo Alto-based Rubrik, Inc. It is a software platform that provides backup, instant recovery, archival, search, analytics, compliance, and copy data management in one secure fabric across data centers and…

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Wult
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Wult provides DPOs globally by automating compliance-related data tasks. Users can stay compliant by ensuring data retention is executed, DSRs are actioned, and documentation is mapped to actual data.

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Fasoo Data Radar

Fasoo Data Radar enhances traditional data loss prevention technologies by discovering, classifying and controlling sensitive data without complex business rules allowing organizations to fortify and scale their unstructured data security and privacy infrastructure. Fasoo Data Radar…

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Proteus NextGen Data Privacy

Proteus NextGen Data Privacy software provides DPOs, Privacy teams and Legal teams with the data privacy management tools required to manage GDPR compliance, CCPA compliance or other data privacy compliance programme.Proteus® NextGen Data Privacy™ brings together cyber security, data…

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Qostodian
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Qohash supports data security with its DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) technology. This technology provides an overview of sensitive information stored in a variety of unstructured data sources. Qohash's Qostodian platform continuously finds, inventories and monitors individual…

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Classify360 by Congruity360

Classify360 is a single-source Data Governance solution delivering actionable data intelligence to empower strategic decisions around data reduction, compliance, and journey to the cloud, from Congruity 360 in Norwell.

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N-able Risk Intelligence

N-able Risk Intelligence is a data breach vulnerability assessment tool suite that finds sensitive data, supporting network security to ensure a business and the data it stores remains strictly between the business and its customers, to reduce the threat of third-party breach, data…

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Soveren
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Soveren helps identify and protect crown jewels in Kubernetes-based environments. It automatically discovers sensitive data and assets, mapping the flows between them and immediately alerting the user before risks become full-blown incidents.

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CYRISMA
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CYRISMA is a multi-feature, cloud-delivered cyber risk management platform that consolidates risk management features in a single interface to help security teame reduce operational complexity and costs. CYRISMA enables security teams to find and assess security gaps and vulnerabilities…

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Fasoo AI-R Privacy

Fasoo AI-R Privacy (Fasoo AI Radar Privacy) is presented as an AI-powered data privacy solution that detects sensitive data using deep learning technology. Fasoo AI-R Privacy can process unstructured data such as text and images, and apply a detection method optimized for data properties.…

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Spirion Sensitive Data Manager

Spirion's Sensitive Data Manager is a software solution designed to help users discover complete landscape of sensitive structured and unstructured data across an environment on networks, clouds, and remote file servers. Users can know where ever-expanding footprint of sensitive…

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TCS MasterCraft DataPlus

TCS MasterCraft™ DataPlus is an integrated data management software designed to enable trustworthy and privacy-safe data for enterprises, supporting data governance initiatives, data privacy management, and data quality.

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SmallID
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SmallID is a cloud-native, on-demand solution available in the AWS Marketplace, purpose built to find, classify, and catalog AWS data – including S3, DynamoDB, Athena, EMR, and Kinesis, from BigID in New York. The solution automatically maps, classifies, and catalogs sensitive, regulated,…

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Dasera
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Dasera, from the company of the same name in Sunnyvale, helps cloud-first organizations secure data that traditional tools like access control and DLP aren’t designed to address. The platform manages data sprawl, monitors data in-use, and discovers misconfiguration and permission…

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Huawei Cloud Data Security Center (DSC)

Data Security Center (DSC) on Huawei Cloud helps users identify, mask, and protect sensitive data in structured and unstructured datasets. It provides protection for both structured and unstructured data from a wide range of sources, such as Object Storage Service, databases, and…

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Bearer
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Bearer helps security teams map sensitive data flows and mitigate data security and privacy risks.

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Solix Common Data Platform (Solix CDP)
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The Solix Common Data Platform (Solix CDP) is presented as an enterprise ready big data management product for modern data-driven enterprises that leverages open-source big data technologies to help companies better organize, manage and process all of their structured and unstructured…

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Gimmal Discover

A software solution used to locate, classify, and manage data in order to mitigate privacy risks and protect sensitive information for regulations like CCPA and GDPR or eDiscovery requests. Gimmal Discover works with content in a variety of corporate data sources including local…

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Concentric AI
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Concentric’s semantic intelligence solution reveals the meaning in an organization's structured and unstructured data, to help fight off data loss and meet compliance and privacy mandates.

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PK Protect
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The PKWARE data security platform monitors and protects sensitive information in files on endpoints, servers, and beyond. With PKWARE, users can protect each type of data and enforce an organization’s security policies in real time. PKWARE detects sensitive data as files are created…

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Accutive Security - Data Discovery and Masking (ADM)

Accutive Data Discovery and Masking (ADM) provides automated data discovery and masking to keep sensitive data both safe and functional.

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GEODI from DECE Software

GEODI is an AI-Based Data Discovery, Classification, and Masking solution fully integrated into various DLP providers. The solution offers automatic, manual, and batch classification features built on top of a semantic discovery and search engine. It's ready to discover the sensitive…

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erwin Data Intelligence

erwin Data Intelligence (erwin DI) combines data catalog and data literacy capabilities for greater awareness of and access to available data assets, guidance on their use, and guardrails to ensure data policies and best practices are followed. Automatically harvest, transform and…

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Immuta
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Immuta is a data access and control solution for DataOps and engineering teams with cloud data ecosystems, from the company of the same name in College Park. Immuta automates access and privacy controls across multiple cloud services, eliminating the need for data engineers to copy…

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Boldon James Classifier Suite

Boldon James' Classifier Suite, supported by Fortra (formerly HelpSystems) since the June 2020 acquisition, enables users to classify data in their standard office applications, whether using Windows or MacOS. The Classifier Platform boasts a consistent, intuitive user interface…

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SearchInform FileAuditor

SearchInform FileAuditor is a DCAP solution (data-centric audit and protection) for automated audit of information storages, search for access violations and tracking changes made to critical data. The system protects confidential documents from careless and deliberate malicious…

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What are Sensitive Data Discovery Tools?

Sensitive data discovery tools identify unknown sources of data within an organization, particularly sources of sensitive data, and classifies the risk associated with each source of data. These tools help organizations maintain data compliance and prevent damage from data breaches or loss, as well as enabling more efficient sensitive data storage. Sensitive data comes with its own classification metrics, based on what kind of demographic, health, and other individual-level data is in question, including consumer data in some cases. This classification allows organizations to better understand and mitigate the risks associated with storing sensitive data.


Sensitive data discovery tools are particularly relevant for large enterprises and orgs that work with lots of sensitive data, such as insurance companies and others that work with their end-users/customer’s sensitive or proprietary data. Managing, and even identifying, sensitive data is especially challenging when there are so many structured and unstructured sources of data, including sensitive data. Sensitive data discovery tools address this concern for enterprises.


Sensitive Data Discovery vs. BI Data Discovery


Sensitive data discovery overlaps in naming with business intelligence-related data discovery processes. However, the functions and associated products are very distinct. Sensitive data discovery focuses on identifying and securing risk associated specifically with sources of sensitive data. In contrast, BI-related data discovery focuses on combining disparate sources of data for collective analysis. Both classes of tools prioritize identifying sources of data within an organization, but for vastly different purposes.


Sensitive Data Discovery Tools Features & Capabilities

Many tools have specialized features and niches, but there are a few core areas that all sensitive data discovery tools should include:


  • Identification of known and unknown data sources

  • Classification of data’s sensitivity, vulnerability, and general risk profile

  • Mapping, visualization, and/or reporting on data sources within organization

Sensitive Data Discovery Tools Comparison

When comparing different sensitive data discovery tools, consider these factors:


  • Remediation tools: Identifying sensitive data is only helpful if the organization knows what to do with that information. What suggestions or proactive actions can each product take to improve the organization’s sensitive data storage and security posture? How well does each tool integrate with other Risk, Governance & Compliance (GRC) tools the organization uses?

  • Classification Process: How customizable, automated, and generally robust is the tagging and classification structure for each product? Ideally, the vendor should be able to identify either a demo or a similar use case and deployment to your organization to demonstrate prior success. Also consider how automated the classification processes are.

  • Ease of Use: In general, how easy to use is each product? How intuitive are its visualization capabilities? Will it require ongoing IT support and maintenance to use, or are most of the processes and alerts automated?


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Frequently Asked Questions

What do sensitive data discovery tools do?

Sensitive discovery tools map out and identify all the known and unknown sources of data that could have sensitive data within it. They also classify the data based on sensitivity, vulnerability, and other risk profiles.

What is the difference between data discovery and sensitive data discovery?

“Data discovery” usually refers to a business intelligence practice of centralizing disparate sources of data into one tool that an end-user can then analyze. In contrast, sensitive data discovery is a security and risk management function for the IT department of an organization.

Who uses sensitive data discovery tools?

Sensitive data discovery tools are most often used by large organizations with complex and sprawling IT infrastructures that lead to many different sources of data. Within these organizations, IT specialists normally administer the tool.

What are the benefits of data discovery tools?

Data discovery tools help organizations maintain data compliance and trust with customers. They also mitigate the risk from data breaches or loss.

What is sensitive data?

Sensitive data is often referred to as personally identifiable data, or data that has certain individual markers or demographic information, such as racial or ethnic information. In some cases, consumer information can also qualify as sensitive data.