Data Discovery and Classification
Sensitive data discovery finds and inventories where sensitive data lives across your environment. Netwrix ties that discovery to who can actually reach it, so you can gain control fast.
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Sensitive data is scattered and overexposed across environments, leaving organizations without the continuous visibility and classification required to reduce breach risk, enforce least privilege, prevent data loss, and prove compliance.
Uncontrolled data sprawl
Sensitive data multiplies across file shares, cloud, SaaS, and AI-connected platforms, expanding your attack surface faster than security teams can track it.
Stale or incomplete classification
Point-in-time scans miss newly created or modified sensitive content, leaving high-risk data untagged, overexposed, and invisible to enforcement controls.
Low-fidelity DLP controls
Inaccurate or missing classification fuels false positives and blind spots, allowing truly sensitive data to slip past prevention controls.
Audit and compliance gaps
Without defensible discovery and consistent labeling, organizations cannot prove who accessed sensitive data, how it was protected, or whether exposure has been reduced.
Unproven inventory, unproven access
Only 43.4% of organizations have a continuously maintained, complete inventory of where sensitive data resides, and 8.2% have none at all. Lack of visibility into who has access to sensitive data is the leading cause of exposure at 36.9%, according to the 2026 Data and Identity Security Report.
Use cases
Continuously discover and classify sensitive data to reduce risk
Discover and classify sensitive data
Continuously locate sensitive and regulated data across file shares, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, and AI-connected repositories. Apply high-fidelity, context-aware classification to accurately tag content and reduce exposure before it becomes a breach risk.
Monitor activity and detect threats
Detect abnormal behavior, unauthorized access, and early indicators of compromise by combining data sensitivity with user activity. Identify AI-driven or insider risks before sensitive data is exfiltrated.
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Why Netwrix for data classification?
Sensitive data is often scattered across file shares, cloud platforms, databases, and applications, making it hard to protect and easy to overexpose. Without visibility and classification, you can’t enforce the right controls or prove compliance. Netwrix helps you automatically discover and classify sensitive data, so you know where it resides, who has access to it, and how it’s being used.
Locate sensitive data everywhere
Automatically identify sensitive and regulated information across on-premises and cloud environments, including files, databases, and collaboration platforms.
Classify data for better protection
Automatically tag sensitive data by type, such as PII, PHI, or financial records, to apply consistent controls with your DLP solution and prioritize risks.
Reduce compliance risk
Classification helps align with frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS by ensuring regulated data is identified and properly secured.
Enable least privilege access
Knowing where sensitive data resides allows you to restrict access and remediate unnecessary permissions.
