Best Sensitive Data Discovery Tools for Windows
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What are Sensitive Data Discovery Tools for Windows?
Sensitive data discovery tools are software solutions designed to help organizations identify, classify, and protect sensitive information across their data environments. These tools scan databases, file systems, cloud storage, and applications to locate sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial records, healthcare data, or intellectual property. By using advanced algorithms and pattern recognition, sensitive data discovery tools can automatically flag data that is at risk of exposure or non-compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, or CCPA. They often provide visualization and reporting features, allowing organizations to see where sensitive data resides and assess the level of risk. These tools are crucial for ensuring data security, privacy compliance, and mitigating the risk of data breaches. Compare and read user reviews of the best Sensitive Data Discovery tools for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Safetica
Safetica
Safetica Intelligent Data Security protects sensitive enterprise data wherever your team uses it. With advanced data discovery, context-aware classification, proactive threat prevention and adaptive security, Safetica provides comprehensive visibility and control over your data. ✔️ Discover what to protect: Precisely locate personally identifiable information, intellectual property, financials, and more wherever it is used across the enterprise, cloud, and endpoint devices. ✔️ Prevent threats: Understand and mitigate risky behavior with automatic detection of suspicious file access, email communication and web browsing. Get the alerts you need to proactively uncover risk and prevent data breaches. ✔️ Keep your data safe: Intercept unauthorized exposure of sensitive personal data, trade secrets and intellectual property. ✔️ Work smarter: Help teams work, with in-moment data handling cues as they access and share sensitive information. -
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Titaniam
Titaniam
Titaniam provides enterprises and SaaS vendors with a full suite of data security/privacy controls in a single, enterprise grade solution. This includes highly advanced options such as encryption-in-use that enables encrypted search and analytics without decryption, and also traditional controls such as tokenization, masking, various types of encryption, and anonymization. Titaniam also offers BYOK/HYOK (bring/hold your own key) for data owners to control the security of their data. If attacked, Titaniam minimizes regulatory overhead by providing evidence that sensitive data retained encryption. Titaniam’s interoperable modules can be combined to support hundreds of architectures across multiple clouds, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Titaniam provides the equivalent of 3+ categories of solutions making it the most effective, and economical solution in the market. Titaniam is featured by Gartner, IDC, and TAG Cyber and has won coveted industry awards e.g. SINET16 and at RSAC2022. -
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Egnyte
Egnyte
Egnyte provides a unified content security and governance solution for collaboration, data security, compliance, and threat detection for multicloud businesses. More than 16,000 organizations trust Egnyte to reduce risks and IT complexity, prevent ransomware and IP theft, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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Card Recon
Ground Labs
Card Recon by Ground Labs is the cardholder data discovery tool of choice for more than 300 PCI Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) and PCI Forensic Investigators (PFI). Accurate and powerful, Card Recon is trusted by over 4,500 merchants across 80 countries as their preferred credit card data discovery tool. Ground Labs has two industry-leading credit card scanning solutions that can fit the needs of your small to medium business: Card Recon Server and Card Recon Desktop. Card Recon searches files, memory and even deleted locations on workstations and file servers (Card Recon Server only) while inspecting hundreds of file types to accurately detect credit card numbers issued by the 10 major payment card providers. Custom-built to meet PCI compliance, Card Recon’s out-of-the-box cardholder data detection capabilities scan for credit card numbers from the 10 major card brands and can identify 160+ combinations of primary account number (PAN) structures used around the world. -
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SailPoint
SailPoint Technologies
You can’t do business without technology and you can’t securely access technology without identity security. In today’s era of “work from anywhere”, managing and governing access for every digital identity is critical to the protection of your business and the data that it runs on. Only SailPoint Identity Security can help you enable your business and manage the cyber risk associated with the explosion of technology access in the cloud enterprise – ensuring each worker has the right access to do their job – no more, no less. Gain unmatched visibility and intelligence while automating and accelerating the management of all user identities, entitlements, systems, data and cloud services. Automate, manage and govern access in real-time, with AI-enhanced visibility and controls. Enable business to run with speed, security and scale in a cloud-critical, threat-intensive world. -
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Aparavi
Aparavi
Aparavi is the data intelligence and automation platform that empowers organizations to control and exploit their data without complexity. Aparavi addresses customer use cases including lowering data costs, reducing risk, and providing greater insight from data that enables automated data governance and compliance, data privacy, data retention, and open secure access for data analytics, and machine learning. > Know Your Data, Trust it & Use it > Crush Costs by 8% - 40% across all your data infrastructure > Exploit Data Value Infinitely to create new revenue streams and business advantage > Reduce Data Footprint by 6 - 46% and expedite your company’s environmental carbon footprint plan > Mitigate Data Risk NowStarting Price: $80 per TB per month -
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Accelario
Accelario
Take the load off of DevOps and eliminate privacy concerns by giving your teams full data autonomy and independence via an easy-to-use self-service portal. Simplify access, eliminate data roadblocks and speed up provisioning for dev, testing, data analysts and more. Accelario Continuous DataOps Platform is a one-stop-shop for handling all of your data needs. Eliminate DevOps bottlenecks and give your teams the high-quality, privacy-compliant data they need. The platform’s four distinct modules are available as stand-alone solutions or as a holistic, comprehensive DataOps management platform. Existing data provisioning solutions can’t keep up with agile demands for continuous, independent access to fresh, privacy-compliant data in autonomous environments. Teams can meet agile demands for fast, frequent deliveries with a comprehensive, one-stop-shop for self-provisioning privacy-compliant high-quality data in their very own environments.Starting Price: $0 Free Forever Up to 10GB -
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Data Rover
Data Rover
Data Rover is an Advanced User Data and Security Management for any Data-Driven Organisation. A single solution for Infrastructure and Security managers that allows data users to explore, manage, process, and protect their data effectively and efficiently, by simultaneously addressing the two primary needs related to the use of data: Cyber Security and Data Management. Data Rover plays a key role in business asset protection and corporate data management policy definition. Data Analytics Check for security flaws and eliminate issues. Simplify the management of permissions. File Auditor It gives you the proof that something was done. Right or Wrong it's not important - JUST the FACTS. Dark Data Makes work faster and safer by optimising the storage resources usage and reducing costs. Involve the users in data management so they can contribute in keeping the storage systems clean and efficient. Advanced Data Exchange Share business data in/out of the company SAFELY. -
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MinerEye DataTracker
MinerEye
MinerEye’s DataTracker enables organizations to overcome the information governance and protection challenge. It automatically scans, indexes, analyzes, virtually labels and categorizes every piece of unstructured and dark data contained in the organization’s data repositories. With proprietary Interpretive AI™, machine learning, and computer vision, the solution locates relevant files out of the billions that are stored, accurately evaluates them, qualifies them by significance and purpose, and automatically sends alerts with next best action recommendations in cases of conflicts, duplications, or potential violations. This way, data protection is profoundly enhanced while risk and operational costs are reduced.Starting Price: $2000/1TB/month -
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Dataedo
Dataedo
Discover, document and manage your metadata. Dataedo is equipped with multiple automated metadata scanners that connect to various database technologies, extract data structures and metadata, and load them into the metadata repository. With a few clicks, build a catalog of your data and describe each element. Decrypt table and column names with business-friendly aliases, provide meaning and purpose of data assets with descriptions and user-defined custom fields. Use sample data to learn what data is stored in your data assets. Understand the data better before using it and make sure that the data is good quality. Ensure high data quality with data profiling. Democratize access to knowledge about data. Build data literacy, democratize data and empower everyone in your organization to make better use of your data with a lightweight on-premises data catalog. Boost data literacy through a data catalog.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Protegrity
Protegrity
Our platform allows businesses to use data—including its application in advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI—to do great things without worrying about putting customers, employees, or intellectual property at risk. The Protegrity Data Protection Platform doesn't just secure data—it simultaneously classifies and discovers data while protecting it. You can't protect what you don't know you have. Our platform first classifies data, allowing users to categorize the type of data that can mostly be in the public domain. With those classifications established, the platform then leverages machine learning algorithms to discover that type of data. Classification and discovery finds the data that needs to be protected. Whether encrypting, tokenizing, or applying privacy methods, the platform secures the data behind the many operational systems that drive the day-to-day functions of business, as well as the analytical systems behind decision-making. -
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BigID
BigID
BigID is data visibility and control for all types of data, everywhere. Reimagine data management for privacy, security, and governance across your entire data landscape. With BigID, you can automatically discover and manage personal and sensitive data – and take action for privacy, protection, and perspective. BigID uses advanced machine learning and data intelligence to help enterprises better manage and protect their customer & sensitive data, meet data privacy and protection regulations, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores. 2 -
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SISA Radar
SISA Information Security
Helping organizations improve data protection with data discovery, file analysis and classification. Secure your entire data ecosystem with SISA Radar data discovery and data classification. Organize and classify sensitive data based on the criticality and business needs. Gain contextual information to improve sensitive data management. Gain visibility into structured, semi-structured and unstructured sensitive data. Protect data from unauthorized access. Meet compliance standards of PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, POPIA, PDPA, APRA and other privacy regulations Create and customize your own data classification scheme. Embrace a scalable and future-proof approach to next-gen data security. A single platform to discover, identify and contextualize sensitive data. A proprietary data discovery algorithm for faster detection and lower false positives. -
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Take charge of your sensitive data with ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus. Get a snapshot of recent user activity, file activity, and access trends. Know the essential four Ws for every access: Who accessed what, when, and from where. Focus on events that matter most, such as sudden permission changes, file deletions, and renaming events. Identify the most active users, most accessed files, and most modified files within your file server. rigger instant alerts whenever there's sudden spikes in file or folder access or modification events. Get real-time notifications whenever there's multiple failed access attempts to critical files. Monitor changes made to sensitive files after business hours. Selectively monitor critical files, folders, shares, and user activities. Get real-time alerts whenever unauthorized modifications are made to critical files. Spot privilege misuse and unusual activity by configuring threshold-based alerts to monitor user-generated events.Starting Price: $745 per year
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HushHush Data Masking
HushHush
Today’s businesses face significant punishment if they do not meet the ever-increasing privacy requirements of both regulators and the public. Vendors need to keep abreast by adding new algorithms to protect sensitive data such as PII and PHI. HushHush stays at the forefront of privacy protection (Patents: US9886593, US20150324607A1, US10339341) with its PII data discovery and anonymization tool workbench (also known as data de-identification, data masking, and obfuscation software). It helps you find your and your customer's sensitive data, classify it, anonymize it, and comply with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA / HITECH, and GLBA requirements. Use a collection of rule-based atomic add-on anonymization components to configure comprehensive and secure data anonymization solutions. HushHush components are out-of-the box solutions designed to anonymize both direct identifiers (SSN, credit cards, names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.) as well as indirect identifiers, with both fixed algorithms. -
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Fasoo Data Radar
Fasoo
Fasoo Data Radar (FDR) is a data discovery and classification solution that helps organizations locate, analyze, and manage sensitive unstructured data across on-premise servers, cloud storage, and endpoints. It scans and classifies files based on keywords, regex patterns, file formats, and other predefined policies, ensuring organizations maintain control over critical information. With real-time monitoring and centralized policy enforcement, FDR enhances data security by identifying risks, preventing unauthorized access, and assisting with compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA. Its integration with enterprise security frameworks allows organizations to apply consistent data protection policies while improving operation workflows. By automating data classification and governance, FDR increases efficiency and enhances data visibility for security and compliance management. -
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Netwrix Privilege Secure for Access Management enables secure, task-based administrative access delivered just-in-time and with just-enough privilege. Reduce opportunity for lateral movement attacks through privileged account reduction. With Netwrix Privilege Secure for Access Management, organizations are empowered to reduce their risk footprint through a task-based approach to Privileged Access Management. Netwrix Privilege Secure for Access Management provides Administrators the exact level of privileges needed, exactly when they’re needed, for only as long as they’re needed, and returns the environment to a no-access-by-default state, immediately upon completion. Kill standing privilege by eliminating standing privilege. Instead, create temporary accounts with just enough access to perform the task at hand and remove them when the job is complete.
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Onna
Reveal
Connect and search across an ever-growing list of cloud platforms with Onna, a real-time search solution. Onna assists users in accessing eDiscovery and finding high-value items across legal departments. Onna provides users with reporting, document sharing, collaborating, compliance managing, and more. Onna also integrates well with different data sources like Gmail, DropBox, and Confluence. -
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DataSunrise Database Security
DataSunrise
Data-Centric high-performance database security software. Regulatory Compliance with SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS and other privacy laws and standards. Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Database Security Proxy on AWS, Azure, Google and On-Prem. Sensitive and PII data auditing, discovery and active protection. Data Auditing enables real-time tracking of user actions and changes made to data and databases to ensure compliance-ready environment, increased visibility. Database Firewall, role based & location aware Data Access Control & Protection. Secure corporate databases in cloud & on-prem against hostile, negligent actions. Secures sensitive data in development and testing environments; Encryption; completely eliminates the possibility to reverse engineer the masked data. Real-time role and location based data masking of production data. Prevents exposure of sensitive privacy data while production data is not changed physically. -
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Reveal Data
Reveal
The future of eDiscovery and investigations is artificial intelligence. We have become one company with Brainspace to ensure our platform is always powered by cutting-edge AI/ML. Reveal Review is the most comprehensive document review platform with the flexibility and scale to manage any legal matter regardless of size and scope. With so many options available to accelerate and prioritize review, you need a review tool that seamlessly provides search, filtering, and document organization features that enable you to efficiently manage the entire process from batching to production. We built the ediscovery platform we wanted to use. One that's fast, efficient and intuitive - without the headaches that come with other solutions. Reveal clients can access out-of-the-box, pre-trained AI Models and add them to their workflows, solving the cold start problem inherent in reactive litigation and investigations. -
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Data Identification Manager™
Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc.
Data Identification Manager™ takes the effort out of classifying your data by applying the same rules, technology, machine learning, and ongoing classification stewardship throughout the organization. This ensures always-accurate, continually relevant data security for your whole IT estate. Get the breakdown of how many files have no duplicates, are original files, or how many files are exact duplicate files for better data management. See your files broken down into several ways, including file growth over time, how old the files are and the size and type of file present. -
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INDICA Enterprise Search
INDICA
INDICA Enterprise Search is the solution for companies to quickly browse through your systems and find the data you need within seconds. Unlike other Enterprise Search solutions, INDICA’s patented data platform indexes all structured and unstructured data and ranks the results to relevance. This makes it possible to find the exact data you need with a few clicks. The Enterprise Search solution is based on our Basic Data Platform and Enterprise Search Module and can be enriched with other features or modules to your demand. The Enterprise Search solution is equipped with an advanced query builder allowing users to easily create accurate search queries that only return relevant results. INDICA Enterprise Search allows to filter search results by document type, date, data source, paths and access. Users can also rank the results to date, name, size and much more. -
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SearchInform FileAuditor
SearchInform
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 actions of employees and puts things in order in file storages. The system performs: •Classification of vulnerable data Finds files in a document flow that contain critical information, and adds a special mark to each file, indicating the type of info it contains: personal data, trade secret, credit card numbers, etc. •Access rights audit Controls access rights to information (full access, editing, reading, writing, reading and changing, etc.). Finds confidential files stored in violation of established security rules . •Monitoring and blocking user actions Audits user operations with the file system. •Critical documents archiving Makes shadow copies of critical files. -
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CYRISMA
CYRISMA
CYRISMA is an all-in-one cyber risk management platform that enables you to discover, understand, mitigate, and manage risk in a holistic and cost-effective manner. Identify and mitigate network and endpoint vulnerabilities, discover and secure sensitive data across cloud and on-prem environments, strengthen OS configuration settings, track compliance, and generate cyber risk assessment reports in a few easy steps. Platform capabilities include (everything included in the price): -- Vulnerability and Patch Management -- Secure OS Configuration Scanning -- Sensitive data discovery; data protection (both on-prem cloud including Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workspace) -- Dark web monitoring -- Compliance Tracking (NIST CSF, CIS Critical Controls, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, ACSC Essential Eight, NCSC Cyber Essentials) -- Active Directory Monitoring (both on-prem and Azure) -- Cyber risk quantification in multiple currencies -- Cyber risk assessment and reporting -
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Collibra
Collibra
With a best-in-class catalog, flexible governance, continuous quality, and built-in privacy, the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud is your single system of engagement for data. Support your users with a best-in-class data catalog that includes embedded governance, privacy and quality. Raise the grade, by ensuring teams can quickly find, understand and access data across sources, business applications, BI and data science tools in one central location. Give your data some much-needed privacy. Centralize, automate and guide workflows to encourage collaboration, operationalize privacy and address global regulatory requirements. Get the full story around your data with Collibra Data Lineage. Automatically map relationships between systems, applications and reports to provide a context-rich view across the enterprise. Hone in on the data you care about most and trust that it is relevant, complete and trustworthy. -
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Exterro
Exterro
Comprehensive end-to-end eDiscovery software. From preservation to production, Exterro’s software platform enables you to manage and optimize all your e-discovery activities in one place. Exterro unifies the entire e-discovery process, allowing you to get to the facts of the case sooner at a fraction of the cost. The Exterro Software Platform is a single, fully integrated solution that unifies all of Exterro's E-Discovery and Information Governance products. With over 30 data integrations, quickly collect data from a variety of commonly used data sources to learn more about your case sooner. Save time and money by identifying only relevant material prior to collection, reducing the total data set. Exterro’s Privacy solutions enable your team to quickly and easily orchestrate processes for complying with critical requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other privacy regulations. -
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Titus Classification Suite
Fortra
Achieving compliance across a wealth of new international data privacy laws and regulations is the benchmark for effective cybersecurity, and data classification is the first step to building a strong data protection posture. The family of Titus Classification products provides the essential tools to clearly inform both your people and your policies on what data should be secured and how to handle it. Manage and protect your data with the industry’s most flexible and customizable classification metadata schema. Give your data context so people and systems understand how to handle the information. A classification and policy enforcement tool that ensures all Microsoft Office documents are classified before they can be saved, printed, or sent via email. Ensure that every email is classified and protectively marked before it is sent. Allow end users to classify and protect any file type with just a few mouse clicks in Microsoft Windows Explorer helping protect your organization. -
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Tripwire
Fortra
Cybersecurity for Enterprise and Industrial Organizations. Protect against cyberattacks with the industry’s best foundational security controls. Detect threats, identify vulnerabilities and harden configurations in real time with Tripwire. Thousands of organizations trust Tripwire Enterprise to serve as the core of their cybersecurity programs. Join them and regain complete control over your IT environment with sophisticated FIM and SCM. Shortens the time it takes to catch and limit damage from threats, anomalies, and suspicious changes. Gives you deep, unparalleled visibility into your security system state and know your security posture at all times. Closes the gap between IT and security by integrating with both teams' existing toolsets. Out-of-the-box platforms and policies enforce regulatory compliance standards. -
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OpenText Magellan
OpenText
Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics Platform. Augment data-driven decision making and accelerate business with advanced artificial intelligence in a pre-built machine learning and big data analytics platform. OpenText Magellan uses AI technologies to provide predictive analytics in easy to consume and flexible data visualizations that maximize the value of business intelligence. Artificial intelligence software eliminates the need for manual big data processing by presenting valuable business insights in a way that is accessible and related to the most critical objectives of the organization. By augmenting business processes through a curated mix of capabilities, including predictive modeling, data discovery tools, data mining techniques, IoT data analytics and more, organizations can use their data to improve decision making based on real business intelligence and analytics. -
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Spirion
Spirion
Spirion has relentlessly solved real data protection problems since 2006 with accurate, contextual discovery of structured and unstructured data; purposeful classification; automated real-time risk remediation; and powerful analytics and dashboards to give organizations greater visibility into their most at-risk data and assets. Spirion's data protection software enables organizations to reduce risk exposure, gain visibility into their data footprint, improve business efficiencies and decision-making while facilitating compliance with data protection laws and regulations.