Cloud
Accounts and object stores
Data Discovery & Classification
Find it. Then understand it.
A human-led engagement that locates and classifies sensitive data across your cloud, SaaS, and on-premise estate, the rigorous, expert counterpart to an automated scan.
Estate surveyCoverage expanding
CloudAccounts and object stores12 connectedSaaSBusiness applications19 connectedOn-premFiles, databases, archives08 connectedShadowCopies outside inventoryDiscovery active
RestrictedMaterial consequenceConfidentialControlled handlingInternalBusiness contextPublicApproved release
Sources observedUnknown stores surfacedClassification human-verified
Why discovery comes first
You cannot protect what you cannot see.
You cannot protect what you cannot see. So we begin by seeing.
Sensitive data sprawls into forgotten stores, shadow copies, and systems nobody remembers commissioning. You cannot protect what you cannot see, and so the work begins not with defence but with discovery.
This engagement locates sensitive information across the whole estate, including the places no inventory remembers, and classifies it by genuine business and regulatory sensitivity rather than by a crude, uniform rule. Where the platforms run this continuously, we run it rigorously and once, the right choice for an organisation that needs the answer established, not subscribed to.
Discovery scope
The estate as it exists, not as the inventory remembers it.
We move across sanctioned systems and forgotten edges with the same discipline, because material exposure rarely respects organisational boundaries.
SaaS
Business applications
On-prem
Files, databases, archives
Shadow
Copies outside inventory
True sensitivity
Classification by consequence, not a uniform rule.
A data type matters because of what its exposure would mean—to a person, an operation, a regulatory obligation, or the organisation itself. Human judgment turns pattern matches into defensible classifications.
ContentWhat the information containsContextWho owns it and why it existsConsequenceWhat exposure would change
ObservedReviewRestricted
Operational consequence →Regulatory consequence ↑
Validated matchClient credential setRestricted
Engagement method
Automated reach, expert interpretation.
Tools provide scale. Analysts establish truth. The engagement deliberately combines both so the result is comprehensive without becoming a list of unverified matches.
Scope
Agree the estate, obligations, and questions the engagement must answer.
Connect
Establish controlled, read-only routes to the systems in scope.
Inspect
Locate, sample, and classify information with expert supervision.
Validate
Remove false positives and confirm consequence with data owners.
Deliver
Return a prioritised map of sensitive data and actionable exposure.
What the engagement includes
Discovery that ends with a usable map.
Each workstream produces a distinct decision asset, so discovery finishes with evidence an owner can act on rather than another export to interpret.
Discovery discipline
Discovery across the estate
Cloud, SaaS, on-premise, and the shadow stores no inventory remembers.
Discovery discipline
Classification by true sensitivity
Protection made proportionate to consequence, not uniform and therefore ineffective.
Decision context
Regulatory mapping
Sensitive data tied to the obligations that govern it, GDPR, and sector rules.
Decision context
A living map
A clear, prioritised picture of what you hold and where your real exposure lies.
Engagement output
A prioritised picture of what you hold—and where exposure matters first.
The final record is built for action. It separates urgent exposure from background inventory, links sensitive data to its obligations and owners, and leaves a defensible baseline for future control.
Validated inventoryOwner and obligation mapPrioritised remediation path
Discuss your scope Sensitive stores37Across the estateUnknown to inventory09Newly surfacedPriority exposures04Action required
Immediate prioritiesUnknown credential archiveCriticalUnowned client exportHigh
Confidential scoping
See your true data map.
Establish where sensitive information lives, which of it matters, and where protection should begin.