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Personal Data Discovery and Classification Across Public Agencies

Find and label citizen personal data spread across legacy shares, databases and endpoints — the foundation of any data-protection programme.

The Challenge

You Cannot Protect What You Cannot See

Agencies hold decades of citizen data across file shares, databases, network storage and endpoints, much of it inherited through reorganisations and never mapped.

Personal-data protection laws expect an inventory of what is held and why. Without discovery there is no inventory, and without an inventory a citizen's request for their own data turns into weeks of manual searching.

The Data Guard Approach

How It Works, Step by Step

01

Discover everywhere

Data Guard Discovery scans the shares, databases, endpoints, network storage and cloud stores you nominate — in place, without copying records out.

02

Classify by context

Data Guard Classification labels the personal data found, using detection patterns you define for local identifiers and formats.

03

Prioritise by exposure

Findings come with permission reporting, so the most widely exposed personal data is fixed first.

04

Keep it current

Scheduled re-scans keep the inventory up to date as data is created, moved and deleted.

Outcomes

What You End Up With

A complete data map

Know where citizen personal data sits across legacy and modern systems.

A defensible inventory

A documented record of what personal data is held and where.

Faster citizen requests

Answer data-subject requests from a real inventory instead of a manual search.

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