Introduction to Privacera Discovery

Introduction¶

Privacera Discovery helps organizations automatically identify, classify, and catalog sensitive data across their data landscape—including cloud storage, databases, and files. It provides deep visibility into where regulated or high-risk information resides, enabling effective data governance and compliance enforcement.

Using built-in and custom rules, dictionaries, patterns, and models, Discovery scans both metadata and data values to detect elements like Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, personal names, and more. Once identified, these elements are tagged and categorized based on sensitivity.

The classification results can then be reviewed, approved, or refined. You can continuously improve detection accuracy by updating the scanning logic to fit your organization’s data profile.

flowchart LR
    A["Data Sources\n(Cloud, DB, Files)"] --> B["Discovery Scan\n(Rules, Patterns, Models)"]
    B --> C["Classification Results\n(Tags: PII, Sensitive, etc.)"]
    C --> D["Review & Feedback\n(Accept / Reject)"]
    D --> E["Refine Detection Logic"]
    E --> B
    C --> F["Policy Enforcement\n(Access Controls, Alerts)"]

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