Data Discovery Overview

Introduction to Data Discovery

Every modern enterprise relies on data to grow. Along with that data comes the need to protect, monitor, and use it responsibly. The foundation of any security, privacy, or data governance program begins with knowing what data you have within your organization.

OneTrust Data Discovery provides complete data visibility, enabling your security and privacy teams to reduce the risk associated with data sprawl across your enterprise. Data Discovery scans and classifies your data, enabling you to implement unified data policies and governance actions to ensure data protection and maintain trust with your users and customers.

OneTrust Data Discovery & Classification is part of the OneTrust AI-Ready Governance Platform. To learn more, see the Data Discovery Knowledge Base.

Note:

For a demo on Data Discovery, watch the video here.

Key capabilities:

  • Broad coverage for your organization’s entire data footprint, including: structured databases, semi-structured data, unstructured data, cloud data stores, SaaS applications, on-premises data stores, big data platforms, messaging, and email platforms.

  • Enable privacy teams to automate compliance activities and use data responsibly.

  • Enable data teams to protect sensitive data and unlock more value from the data.

  • Enable data governance owners to inventory the data and build effective data policies.

  • Intelligently discover and classify sensitive data to gain central visibility into data risk.

  • Effectively protect and govern sensitive data through automated policy orchestration and remediation actions.

Use cases:

Risk Assessment

Identify and understand data privacy and security risks to create enforceable data policies

Data Discovery and Classification

: Identify and tag data using AI-driven classification with over 200 connectors

Data Activity Mapping

: Automatically generate and maintain a current inventory of sensitive data and sources across your organization

Typical users

Typical users include privacy and legal teams, security teams, data governance teams, and data and IT teams. Common stakeholder roles include:

  • Data Protection Officer

  • Chief Information Officer

  • Chief Risk Officer

  • Chief Compliance Officer

  • Chief Legal Officer

  • Chief Privacy Officer

  • Chief Data Officer