The Process

How Data Guard Works

A five-stage intelligence pipeline that discovers, classifies, monitors, enforces, and reports on your sensitive data — automatically.

01

Discover

Find every piece of sensitive data across your entire digital estate — before attackers do.

Data Guard's discovery engine automatically scans structured and unstructured data across endpoints, file servers, databases, cloud storage, and SaaS applications. Using advanced fingerprinting, regex patterns, and ML-based content analysis, it identifies sensitive data including PII, financial records, health information, intellectual property, and custom data types defined by your organization.

Automated scanning of 500M+ data objects daily
Support for 300+ file types and data formats
Agentless scanning for cloud and network storage
Real-time discovery as new data is created
02

Classify

Label every data asset by sensitivity level so the right policies apply automatically.

Once discovered, data is classified using a combination of rule-based detection, machine learning models trained on industry-specific data, and contextual analysis. Data Guard supports multi-level classification schemes (Public, Internal, Confidential, Restricted) and integrates with Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) labels for seamless enterprise deployment.

99.7% classification accuracy with ML models
Custom classification policies for your industry
MIP label integration for Microsoft environments
Automatic reclassification when content changes
03

Monitor

Watch every data movement in real time across every channel — with zero blind spots.

Continuous monitoring covers all data-in-motion, data-at-rest, and data-in-use scenarios. Data Guard tracks file transfers, email transmissions, web uploads, cloud sync, printing, screen captures, and application data access — building a complete audit trail of every sensitive data interaction.

120+ monitored channels and protocols
Unified visibility across endpoint, network, and cloud
User behavior analytics for insider threat detection
Complete audit trail for compliance and forensics
04

Enforce

Automatically stop policy violations before data leaves — or alert, encrypt, and log for review.

When a policy violation is detected, Data Guard responds in milliseconds. Enforcement actions are fully configurable: block the transfer outright, quarantine the file for review, automatically encrypt sensitive content, notify the user with a justification prompt, or silently log the event for forensic analysis. All actions are context-aware — a policy can behave differently based on user role, location, device trust level, and data sensitivity.

Sub-millisecond enforcement decisions
Block, quarantine, encrypt, alert, or log
Context-aware policies (role, location, device)
User education prompts to reduce repeat violations
05

Report

Comprehensive reporting that satisfies auditors, informs executives, and guides security teams.

Data Guard's reporting engine generates audit-ready compliance reports for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, and more. Executive dashboards provide real-time visibility into your data risk posture. Incident reports include full forensic detail — who accessed what, when, from where, and what action was taken.

Pre-built reports for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX
Executive risk dashboard with trend analysis
Scheduled automated report delivery
Full forensic incident timeline export

See the Full Pipeline in Action

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