Unified Discovery and Classification

Unified Discovery and Classification provides discovery and classification capabilities that allow you to find and protect your cloud environment data, SaaS application data, and on-premises application data. Unified Discovery and Classification is an independent component of Guardium® Data Protection that is included with your Guardium Data Protection license.

Unified Discovery and Classification is perfect for organizations that need to protect their data, but don't know where to start. The analyzer scales automatically to be both cost effective and resource effective. Through Unified Discovery and Classification, you can understand:
  • Location of the sensitive data and regulated data
  • Criticality of vulnerabilities concerning the sensitive data
  • Recommendations to make your cloud data secure and compliant

The Unified Discovery and Classification solution is agentless, leaving zero impact on business operation and performance. It is also non-intrusive, designed with read-only permissions. Deploying it in your cloud environments and SaaS applications is easy and can add immense value in securing your cloud data while maintaining compliance as your data never leaves your account and region.

It provides insightful information that can help security professionals:
  • One solution to support both on-premises and cloud environments
  • Improved accuracy of sensitive data detection from the Unified Discovery and Classification AI-powered context engine
  • Map and classify sensitive data that is found in cloud workloads and SaaS applications
  • Pinpoint the exposed data
  • Reduce the data attack surface
  • Continuously monitor data for security hazards and compliance violations

To ensure the protection of data that is analyzed with Unified Discovery and Classification, you can secure it through host-based encryption.