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Do you know where your sensitive data is?

An organisation stores large volumes of sensitive …

Stop your IP and Design files from being stolen?

A defence subcontractor retains your design drawings in an archive …

Stopping your confidential files from being stolen?

A senior employee resigns and spends their final week downloading …

How are you measuring your AI risk today?

An employee uploads a customer spreadsheet into an AI …

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How to Protect Data Even After a Breach or Theft

Applies persistent file encryption…

ITAR Compliance and Sovereign Data Encryption

Enables ITAR-compliant handling of controlled…

Secure External Collaboration with Persistent File Encryption

Enables secure collaboration with suppliers…

Securing Construction Drawings and Project Files

Keeps construction drawings, specifications…

Securing Engineering Files and CAD Data

Applies persistent in-use encryption to…

Sensitive Data Discovery and Classification

Finds and classifies PII, PCI, PHI, and …

Insider Risk Detection and Data Loss Prevention

Detects insider threat behaviour in real…

See GuardWare data-centric security in action

Core Solutions
ASSESSOR

Executive-ready risk assessment with a ranked remediation plan

DISCOVER

Identify and classify sensitive data across your environment

INSIGHT

Detect and stop risky data handling, including AI tools 

PROTECT

Encrypt and control critical files everywhere

Supporting Solutions
ASSESSOR Lite

Fast risk snapshot for M365 in 24 hours

DISCOVER PCI

Lightweight PCI DSS scoping scan

INSIGHT Lite

M365 monitoring and early risk signals

PROTECT Design

Protect CAD and IP workflows across partners and supply chains

Visibility Is No Longer Enough. Your Data Needs To Protect Itself.

The only approach that finds your sensitive data, monitors how it moves, and keeps it protected even after it leaves your control. 
DSPM​
DLP​
DSPM + PE
Risk management for all businesses:

Most DSPM platforms stop at visibility. GuardWare doesn't. 

No other vendor does all three.

Use-Cases

Do you know where your sensitive data is?

Most organisations do not have a complete view of where PII, medical and personal information resides. Sensitive data is often duplicated across systems, stored in legacy folders, attached to emails, saved locally by users, or shared externally without clear ownership. 

Do you know your Shadow AI risk?

AI tools including ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Grok, and Gemini are now part of everyday work. The productivity gains are real. So is the risk. 

Stop your IP and Design files from being stolen?

Design files, CAD drawings, engineering specifications, source code, and simulation outputs often hold the greatest IP value in design-led organisations, yet they are among the least protected. 

Stopping your confidential files from being stolen?

Data must leave the environment to enable work. It is shared with suppliers, contractors, legal firms, and project partners through email, USB, cloud platforms, and collaboration tools.

GuardWare's Cybersecurity
Webinar Series with Customers

Where Is Your Client's Cardholder Data? The PCI Scoping Problem Every QSA Has.

Speaker: Kashif Hassan
(Director, Cyber Security and Information Technology, Risk Associates Bahrain)

Host: Rizwan Mahmood
(Founder and CEO, GuardWare Australia)

ost: Rizwan Mahmood

The Insider Threat You Can't Fire: What Cybersecurity Actually Looks Like in a School

Speaker: Simon
(IT Director, Rosebank College)

Host: Rizwan Mahmood
(Founder and CEO, GuardWare Australia)

ost: Rizwan Mahmood
(Founder and CEO, GuardWare Australia)

Trusted With the Blueprint The Cyber Risk Hiding in Contract Manufacturing and Supply Chains

Speaker: Chris Rule
(General Manager, GME Defence)

Speaker: Brahman Thiyagalingham
(Chief Information and Security Officer, GME Defence)

Host: Rizwan Mahmood
(Founder and CEO, GuardWare Australia)

Guardware Company Logo
The only vendor delivering data discovery, continuous monitoring, and persistent file encryption in a single integrated platform.

PROTECT is the final layer, data that leaves your environment is worthless to anyone without your keys.

Data-Centric Security suite designed as one operational sequence:

Find and classify  

Full monitoring across all channels including M365

Persistent file encryption

If Microsoft 365 is your primary data environment

Full control of your M365 environment

GuardWare connects directly to SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Exchange. DISCOVER finds and classifies sensitive data. INSIGHT monitors how it moves. PROTECT keeps it encrypted even after it leaves. No disruption. Complete visibility from day one. 

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Built from evidence, not assumptions.

DISCOVER gives IT and security leaders the ability to locate sensitive data across the organisation and understand exactly where controls need to be tightened, without disruption to existing operations.

Scans files, text, and images across every connected repository, M365 email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Windows, Linux, cloud platforms, file shares, and legacy archives. Identifies PII, PCI, PHI, cardholder data, and business-sensitive content using rule-based classification.

M365 email , SharePoint and your network including end-points and servers are scanned remotely, no local agent required. The entire process is simple to setup, easy to run with zero disruption.

Reduces risk through remediation, classify, delete, or move data. Decentralised remediation alerts go directly to data owners, with full IT security oversight maintained throughout. Produce the ranked remediation plan needed to reduce risk systematically.

Rule-based classification across PII, PCI, PHI and business sensitive content. Identified data is tagged based on company's classification labels Data owners receive decentralised remediation alerts directly, with IT security oversight maintained throughout. Reduces the classification burden on your team without removing central control.

AI rollouts. Audit responses. Incident triage. Regulatory submissions. Every one of these is more controlled when your security team is working from a complete, evidence-based picture of what data you hold and where it is.

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Every channel covered.
Every risk visible.

Next-gen DLP built for the reality of 2026, where data moves across endpoints, cloud platforms, personal devices, AI tools, and home networks, often simultaneously

Endpoint DLP Monitors data activity on corporate devices, file transfers, application usage, USB connections, print activity, and screen capture.

Identifies sensitive data being emailed externally, copied to USB, uploaded to personal cloud storage, or fed into an unsanctioned AI tool, at the moment it happens. Alerts reach the employee, their manager, and the security team simultaneously.

When risky behaviour is detected, INSIGHT triggers contextual user education immediately. Behaviour change happens at the moment of the event, not six months later in an annual training session nobody remembers.

INSIGHT does not require a clean-slate replacement of your existing Security investment. It closes the gaps those tools leave open, adding the monitoring layer that covers the channels your current security tools cannot reach.

Detects when sensitive data is being processed by unsanctioned AI applications at the browser and application level. In 2026, your people are already using AI tools. INSIGHT makes that visible and accountable.

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Your data, Under your control wherever it goes.

PROTECT applies persistent file encryption so that sensitive files remain protected after they leave your environment. The encryption travels with the file. The control stays with you.

Protected files remain encrypted when stored anywhere, transferred by any method, and when in use by an authorised user or application.

When a protected file is accessed by an unauthorised party, through a breach, through exfiltration, through a compromised supply chain, they cannot read it. It cannot be used as leverage in a ransomware demand. It cannot be published to cause reputational damage. It is, in every meaningful sense, worthless to them.

The keys that unlock it are yours. And when you need to revoke access, you can do so remotely, immediately, without any physical interaction with the file or the device that holds it. 

A breach, an insider, a compromised supply chain. When a file leaves your environment through any of these, PROTECT ensures it cannot be read, cannot be published, and cannot be used as leverage. The encryption travels with the file. The keys stay with you. Stolen data becomes irrelevant. 

Every file you share with a supplier, contractor, or tender panel remains under your authority after you send it. PROTECT gives you the ability to revoke access to any file, at any time, from anywhere, the moment the engagement ends, without touching the device that holds it. You control what you share. You control when it expires. 

Guardware Protect Design Logo

The world's first persistent in-use encryption for design files.

Engineering drawings, CAD files, and technical IP remain encrypted while open and in active use. Share with suppliers. Respond to tenders. The encryption travels with the file. The control stays with you.

What a CISO gets from GuardWare DSPM + PE

Every other platform assumes a breach is a crisis. GuardWare makes it irrelevant. 

Most platforms discover your data and monitor how it moves. GuardWare goes further. PROTECT adds persistent encryption so every sensitive file stays protected after it leaves your environment. Stolen data becomes unreadable. A breach stops being a crisis. That is the difference between visibility and control and it is the only capability no other vendor can match. 

When an employee makes a risky decision with sensitive data, INSIGHT notifies them, their manager, and the security team simultaneously, at the moment the event occurs, not after it has escalated. 

Automated user education triggered in context changes behaviour from the inside out. Every risk event becomes a teachable moment, without blocking access, creating friction, or adding to your team's workload. 

 INSIGHT's audit trail gives you documented evidence of what was detected, what was escalated, and what action was taken, without scrambling to reconstruct a timeline after the fact. 

Shadow AI is already happening across your organisation. INSIGHT identifies what tools are being used, what data is being fed into them, and where your unsanctioned AI exposure sits, so you can manage it before it becomes an incident. 

Why Use GuardWare’s Data-Centric Platform

Traditional DLP was built for a world with a clear boundary, a corporate network, a managed device fleet, a predictable set of applications.

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average cost of a data breach in Australia. The cost of not knowing is higher than the cost of watching. (IBM, 2024)

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data breach notifications in Australia in 2024, the highest annual number since the NDB scheme began. (OAIC, 2024)

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average cost of a data breach in Australia. The cost of not knowing is higher than the cost of watching. (IBM, 2024)

Start with a clear view,
then extend control

Most DLP tools respond to a breach. INSIGHT prevents the next one. 

Deep Content Scanning

Identifies PII, PCI, PHI, cardholder data, and business-sensitive content across files, text, and images. Works across Windows, Linux, M365, and legacy file shares.

Remediation Workflows

Classify, quarantine, or delete sensitive data. Decentralised remediation alerts go directly to data owners, with IT security oversight maintained throughout.

Classification & Tagging

Rule-based classification so data owners can remediate and apply governing controls. Reduces the burden on IT by delegating classification at the source.

24-hour monitoring

Endpoint DLP Monitors data activity on corporate devices, file transfers, application usage, USB connections, print activity, and screen capture, 24 hours a day, whether the device is in the office or at home.

AI Tool Visibility

Detects and monitors the use of AI applications and web-based AI tools, including shadow AI, across corporate and personal devices. Identifies when sensitive data is being fed into unsanctioned platforms.

User Activity & Cyber Awareness

Automated user education triggered at the point of risky behaviour. Employees receive contextual guidance in real time, building a security culture from the inside out, rather than relying on annual training that people forget by Thursday.

Powerful Policy Creation with Flexible Data

Combine ready-to-use data types with custom definitions for complete control and accuracy.

Classification & Tagging

Data Ownership

Data Types

Real-Time Visibility for Confident Compliance

Common Questions

No. GuardWare is designed to work alongside your existing security investment, not replace it. DISCOVER maps your data estate without disrupting operations. INSIGHT closes the monitoring blind spots most tools leave open. PROTECT adds persistent encryption that no existing tool delivers. The suite complements what you already run and covers what it cannot reach.

DISCOVER runs a Proof of Value scan in two hours. INSIGHT is active from day one for M365 environments through native API integration, with endpoint agents deploying to corporate devices with no disruption. PROTECT applies persistent encryption at the file level without workflow changes for authorised users.

INSIGHT monitors browser-based and application-level AI tools including ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, and other third-party AI services. It identifies when sensitive data is being processed by unsanctioned AI applications and alerts security teams in real time.

INSIGHT notifies the employee, their manager, and the security team simultaneously at the moment the event occurs, not in the next daily report. It triggers automated contextual user education at the point of the event, driving behaviour change in real time. Where your policy requires it, INSIGHT can block the transfer before it completes.

Every DISCOVER scan produces a ranked exposure report and remediation plan. INSIGHT logs every event, alert, and action taken in a complete audit trail. PROTECT records every file access, who opened it, when, and from which device. Together the suite gives your security team documented evidence for internal governance, regulatory response, and supervisory review, without reconstructing a timeline after the fact.

INSIGHT is next-generation Data Loss Prevention built for the reality of 2026. But GuardWare goes beyond DLP. DISCOVER adds data security posture management, finding and classifying sensitive data across your entire environment. PROTECT adds persistent encryption so data that leaves your environment is useless without your keys. That combination, DSPM plus persistent encryption, is a category no other vendor occupies.

DSPM stands for Data Security Posture Management, the ability to find sensitive data, understand exposure, and monitor how it moves. PE stands for Persistent Encryption, the ability to keep files protected even after they leave your environment, so stolen data cannot be read, ransomed, or published. GuardWare is the only platform that delivers both in a single integrated suite.

Webinar

The Insider Threat You Can't Fire: Cybersecurity in Education.

Jun 24, 2026 12:00PM AEST