Data Mapping Automation - October 27, 2025 - 202510.2.0 (Fall Release)

General Availability

Lightweight Worker Node Deployment

|Available with Solution Packaging Only

Deploy a modular version of our worker node that grants a simplified experience and minimizes the need for specialized personnel. It can retrieve all prerequisites and images from a cloud API, ensuring smooth, firewall-independent deployment. With the lightweight worker node, privacy teams can connect to diverse data sources to automatically discover, classify, and map data, enabling effortless data map population and record processing for improved governance and regulatory readiness. The following service providers are supported:

  • AWS

  • Azure

  • Google Cloud

For more information, see Lightweight Worker Node Deployment & Automation Guide.

Data Mapping Discovery Automation

|Available with Solution Packaging Only

Sync with external systems with secure credentials to seamlessly generate records in your data map without extensive, technical integration setup. This promotes easier monitoring of assets to maintain up-to-date inventories, which improves visibility and reduces manual configuration fatigue.

For more information, see Data Mapping Discovery Automation Overview.

Asset Detection Integrations

|Available with Solution Packaging Only

Sync with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud with secure credentials to seamlessly generate records in your data map without extensive, technical integration setup. This promotes easier monitoring of assets to maintain up-to-date inventories, which improves visibility and reduces manual configuration fatigue.

For more information, see Data Mapping Discovery Automation Overview.

Data Element Detection Integrations

|Available with Solution Packaging Only

Connect to up to nine diverse data sources to automatically discover, classify, and map data, enabling effortless population of data maps and processing records for improved governance and regulatory readiness. Users simply connect their systems and the feature automatically identifies and classifies column and field names and provides data element and data categories.

For more information, see Automated Data Element Detection Feature Guide.

Support Native Vault for AWS, Azure, and GCP

Integrate with Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and Google Secret Manager to enable secure, compliant worker node deployments. This additional step in the lightweight worker node deployment empowers IT and Security teams with familiar tools and reduces onboarding time when setting up these installations.

For more information, see Lightweight Worker Node Deployment & Automation Guide.

Unified Purpose

Gain full oversight into all aspects involved in processing personal data with the Purpose object. Available in Global Data Manager, this centralized object type provides cross-solution insights into how personal data collected for that given purpose is used across your business, so that you are better able to associate objects like data elements, processing activities, vendors, collection points, and projects through a common and central object.

For more information, see Unified Purpose Feature Guide.

@Mentions for Assets, Legal Entities, Processing Activities, and Vendors

Mention users directly within comments to draw their attention or request their input, triggering both an in-app notification and email notification. @Mention functionality is now supported in comments on the following objects:

  • Assets

  • Legal Entities

  • Processing Activities

  • Vendors

This enhancement improves collaboration and ensures faster, more targeted communication across your team.

Screen Header Enhancements

 

OneTrust is introducing updated screen headers to select screens across the platform to improve consistency and usability. These enhancements can include:

  • Standardized screen titles and new in-app descriptions across applicable areas of the platform, providing clearer context and quick guidance to help users understand each screen’s purpose and available actions.

  • Consolidated action buttons into a Context menu on select screens to reduce clutter and streamline navigation.

  • Renamed buttons on select screens to make actions more immediately understandable and easier to follow.

These enhancements make it easier for users to orient themselves, understand workflows, and complete tasks with greater confidence and efficiency.

Note:

While some screens already feature updated headers, not all enhancements are applied universally and may vary depending on the screen's functionality and context. Enhancements to additional screens may also become visible across the next several releases.

For more information, see Screen Header Enhancements Across the OneTrust Platform.

Fixed

  • Resolved an issue that prevented the Search function from populating with all relevant results when searching filtered inventory list screens for records with names containing special characters.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented some system attribute options from correctly displaying all translated values in column reports when the application language was changed.

New Public Preview Features

Purpose Data Usage

Drill into specific purposes across the platform and inspect their usage details. This central reporting screen provides privacy managers a central location for monitoring where a given purpose is used to better manage those records.

For more information, see Unified Purpose Feature Guide.

Existing Public Preview Features

Enhanced Data Graph Visualizations

View relationships between projects, data sets, and models in the data graph in addition to inventory records. This enhancement provides a clear visualization of how objects relate to each other and to inventory records throughout your data map.

For more information, see Creating and Managing Contextual Relationships.

Inventory Review

Gain essential visibility into the flow of newly added and updated inventory records so you can better investigate risks, promote compliance, and enhance efficiency concerning your data map. This review experience allows you to manage pending inventory records that are created by several methods and review inventory records with new or updated data elements.

For more information, see Inventory Review & Automation Feature Guide.

Important:

This feature was originally reported under General Availability for 202510.2.0. It has been rescheduled for General Availability in 202602.1.0 and will remain in Public Preview until that release.

Inventory Similarity Scan

Detect similar records in your data map for new records that have been added through various sources. Different than our duplicate asset functionality, the scan displays information about similar records within the new records to ensure users can easily find a record that is similar to the new entry.

For more information, see Inventory Similarity Scan.

Important:

This feature was originally reported under General Availability for 202510.2.0. It has been rescheduled for General Availability in 202602.1.0 and will remain in Public Preview until that release.

Permissions

Removed Permissions

  • Entity Inventory Report Export

  • Sync Inventory for Report

  • Create Data Lineage Inventory

  • View Data Lineage Inventory

The following permissions have been removed from the platform or removed from select system roles as defined below::

  • AI Governance Manager

  • Assessments Manager

  • Audit Manager

  • Auditor

  • Compliance Manager

  • Cookie Consultant

  • Cookie Manager

  • Data Access and Usage Manager

  • Data Governance Manager

  • Data Governance Viewer

  • Data Steward

  • Digital Policy Manager

  • Digital Policy Owner

  • Digital Policy Viewer

  • Disclosures Administrator

  • Employee

  • Enterprise Policy Manager

  • EPM Policy View Only

  • EPM Procedure View Only

  • EPM Standard View Only

  • EPM View Only

  • ERM Manager

  • ESG Manager

  • Ethics Policy Manager

  • Ethics Policy Owner

  • Ethics Policy Restricted Owner

  • Exchange Manager

  • Incident General User

  • Incidents Manager

  • Invited

  • IT Risk Approver

  • IT Risk Manager

  • Managed Service Provider

  • Maturity & Planning Manager

  • Policy Attestation Respondent

  • Policy Owner

  • Privacy Notice Author

  • Privacy Notice Manager

  • Privacy Program Auditor

  • Privacy Rights Automation Manager

  • Program Benchmarking Manager

  • Project Owner

  • Project Viewer

  • Tech Risk & Compliance Admin

  • Third-Party Viewer

  • TPDD Admin

  • TPDD Compliance Manager

  • TPDD Enhanced Due Diligence Requester

  • Vendor Manager

  • Vendorpedia Assessment Coordinator

Things to Know

  • Issues that may impact our customers are documented in our Known Defects Database located here with approved workarounds and targeted releases for resolving the issue.