The data you forgot you had.
Large organisations accumulate data faster than they can track it. File shares grow unchecked. Legacy systems hold records nobody remembers creating. Departed employees leave behind folders of unknown contents. When someone finally asks, “Where is our sensitive data?” the honest answer is usually “we don’t know.”
This becomes urgent when a compliance audit lands. Or when a breach forces you to identify what was exposed. Suddenly, you need to locate every customer record, every financial document, every piece of intellectual property, across hundreds of terabytes of unstructured storage.
Manual classification is impossible at this scale. Most organisations default to assuming everything is sensitive (paralysing operations) or nothing is (accepting unquantified risk).
Neither approach survives contact with a regulator.
How GuardWare addresses it.
GuardWare DISCOVER scans data estates at scale, file shares, cloud storage, endpoints, databases and classifies content based on what it contains. The system identifies sensitive data types, including personal information (PII), financial records (including PCI), health data, and intellectual property. Classification happens automatically, using predefined rules and customisable policies.
Once DISCOVER maps the data landscape, GuardWare INSIGHT takes over for continuous monitoring. INSIGHT watches how classified data moves, who accesses it, and where it goes. The combination means you find sensitive data once and monitor it ongoing, rather than running discovery as a one-off compliance exercise.
For the highest-risk data DISCOVER identifies, GuardWare PROTECT adds persistent encryption. Files remain encrypted wherever they travel, on endpoints, in cloud storage, and shared externally. Even if data leaves your environment, protection stays with the file.
The full suite turns “we have hundreds of terabytes somewhere” into “we know exactly what we have, where it lives, who touches it, and it’s protected.”
The Outcome
Organisations gain a defensible data inventory. Compliance audits become answerable. Security teams stop guessing and start prioritising based on actual risk. When a breach occurs, you know precisely what was exposed and what remained protected.
Data at scale stops being a liability. It becomes a managed asset.
