Where does your sensitive data actually live?
Discover hidden sensitive data across cloud apps, databases, file systems, emails, and internal tools — instantly, without moving a single file.
- PCI compliance
- Privacy compliance
- Classifies and labels data at the source
- Agentless scanning as standard
Risk management for all businesses
"We now have complete visibility of data across our assets. In the very first week of monitoring we detected and prevented two data dumps to USB drives by staff."
You can't control what you can't see.
When a breach occurs or an audit lands, you need answers fast. Working from assumptions under pressure is exactly where organisations make costly mistakes.
PCI and privacy compliance starts here
Your organisation cannot demonstrate PCI DSS or privacy regulatory compliance without knowing where regulated data sits. Most security teams are working from assumptions. DISCOVER gives you the evidence, a complete, ranked view of where regulated data lives, who can access it, and what needs to be fixed first, before an audit or incident forces the question.
Classify and label data at the source
DISCOVER identifies sensitive data and applies classification labels directly to what it finds. For organisations using Microsoft Purview, DISCOVER extends your existing framework without starting over, applying Purview labels seamlessly to all identified data. For organisations outside M365, DISCOVER provides standalone classification and labelling capability so every file is governed consistently, regardless of where it lives.
The Real Security Gap: Data Visibility, Not Tools.
Security leaders have spent years investing in prevention, firewalls, endpoint protection, identity management. Most have done it well. But almost every organisation still has a data visibility problem. Not a tools problem. A data problem.
The Hidden Risks of Unstructured Data Ownership
Ownership disappears when projects finish and teams move on. Permissions drift silently through inherited groups and one-off exceptions. Classification is inconsistent, some labels, some policy, and a lot of human judgement. Unstructured data, documents, spreadsheets, designs, and email attachments carry the bulk of the risk and are the hardest to govern.
Normal work moves data further, faster.
Project delivery relies on a constant flow of documents across M365, SharePoint, Teams, file shares, and contractor ecosystems. Every handoff is a potential exposure point. Most controls were built for a world where the perimeter still existed.
How it Works.
The DISCOVER dashboard, ranked findings across devices, SharePoint, and email with data type, filename, and hit count visible.
What you get
The DISCOVER dashboard, ranked findings across devices, SharePoint, and email with data type, filename, and hit count visible.
Find everything, miss nothing
Scans files, text, and images across every connected repository. M365 email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Windows, Linux, cloud platforms, file shares, and legacy archives, all covered.
Scans data in place
DISCOVER connects to your repositories and works with what’s already there. No data is extracted or moved. No disruption to operations. Agents connect via SSL.
Agentless scanning as standard
DISCOVER uses agentless architecture to scan M365 email, SharePoint, and your network including endpoints and servers, with no local agent required for most environments. Simple to set up, operational within hours, and zero disruption to run.
Classifies and tags at the source
Rule-based classification across PII, PCI, PHI, and business-sensitive content. Data owners receive decentralised remediation alerts directly, with IT security oversight maintained throughout.
Produces evidence you can use
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 lives.
Information owner engagement
Most remediation processes land entirely on the IT security team. DISCOVER decentralises that burden. When sensitive data is found, remediation alerts go directly to the information owners who created it, shared it, and know what it is. They act. IT security oversees. The process moves faster, accountability sits where it should, and your security team focuses on what only they can do.
If Microsoft 365 is your primary data environment
DISCOVER provides an agentless method of scanning your SharePoint and M365 environment
Connects directly without requiring local agents or changes to your existing infrastructure. It applies Microsoft Purview labels seamlessly to all identified data, so organisations already using Purview can extend their classification framework without starting over.
Your map of sensitive data, built from evidence, not assumptions.
Designed for organisations that need answers quickly, not a six-month deployment project.
Agentless scanning.
Operational within hours.
No data movement. No disruption.
Easy to set up and go.
Built to fit into your environment.
Agentless architecture
GuardWare DISCOVER is designed for how security teams actually operate. Fast to deploy, secure by design, and built to work alongside your existing stack – not replace it.
Start with a 2-hour scoped data snapshot.
See exactly where your sensitive data lives, no lengthy deployment, no guesswork. The GuardWare DISCOVER Proof of Value is scoped to fit your specific data visibility challenge. We scan the repositories that hold your sensitive data and hand you a ranked exposure report and remediation plan you can act on immediately.
- Scope the repositories that matter most to your organisation
- 2-hour setup, operational with no disruption to your environment
- Receive a ranked exposure report and prioritised remediation plan
Real-Time Visibility for Confident Compliance
"The part that makes breaches expensive isn't the intrusion. It's the uncertainty afterwards, what data was involved, where it lived, and who could reach it. DISCOVER was built to close that gap, fast, without disruption, and without guesswork."
DISCOVER is step one.
Together, the suite gives you control end to end.
GuardWare’s Data-Centric Security suite is designed as one operational sequence, find, monitor, and protect your sensitive data across its entire lifecycle.
Find and classify
Map sensitive data across all repositories, including M365. Know what you have, where it lives, and what needs to be tightened first.
Full monitoring across all channels
Extends visibility beyond M365 to endpoints, cloud platforms, AI tools, USB activity, web traffic, and home environments. The complete picture, across every channel where data moves.
Encrypt and control
Persistent file encryption so sensitive files remain protected even when they leave your environment, with remote key revocation for every file, including files already shared externally.