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Overview of Privacera Discovery¶

Overview¶

Privacera Discovery crawls through various data assets such as databases or files, collectively referred to as data sources. It scans these sources to identify sensitive information like credit card numbers, Social Security Numbers, and other personal, restricted, or confidential information.

Privacera Discovery classifies or labels this information to create a comprehensive catalog of your sensitive data. You can review these classifications to accept or reject them or refine the scanning using rules, dictionaries, models, and patterns.

graph TD
    A[Data Sources] --> B[Privacera Discovery]
    B --> C[Classifications]
    C --> D[Accept/Reject]
    D --> E[Refine Scanning]

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