Data Discovery
Accurate, comprehensive discovery everywhere your data lives
Locate sensitive information across the enterprise with our data discovery platform. Reduce exposure risk and compliance gaps.
Trusted by leading organizations for over 40 years
A stronger security posture with discovery you can trust
You can’t protect data that you don’t know exists. PK Protect automatically locates sensitive data across your organization. Accurate and comprehensive data discovery provides the visibility needed to take informed action.
Why PK Protect
Unmatched coverage, precision, and performance
Sensitive data discovery for all environments
Our data discovery platform locates sensitive data on endpoints, servers, on-premises systems, cloud environments, databases, data lakes, packaged applications, and mainframes. From a single platform, you can locate and secure sensitive data wherever it resides.
Accurate discovery security leaders can trust
Advanced contextual awareness with AI-enhanced computer vision ensures precision. Tailor detection to your unique risk profile by customizing sensitive data types. Reliable discovery with fewer false positives helps your team quickly identify and remediate risk.
Enterprise-grade speed and scalability
PK Protect is horizontally scalable to efficiently scan complex environments. One of the top U.S. banks scans 400+ applications and 18,000 databases containing a million tables. Another scans 5,000 applications on 59,000 databases, including Cloudera, Teradata, S3, Hadoop, DB2, SQL Server, MongoDB, Oracle, and more.
Western Union’s journey to automated data discovery and protection
Western Union scans SharePoint and file servers to identify PCI and PII for GDPR and CCPA compliance. When PK Protect detects PCI, it classifies documents with sensitivity labels and redacts credit card numbers, ensuring maximum protection without over-restricting access.
Western Union has over 150 million customers with a lot of databases that exist with dormant customers, and we operate in over 200 countries. We have to comply with local regulations and keep our customers’ information secure. We started to look at our data foundation and found that our processes were inefficient, not automated, and we were spending way too much time trying to figure out where our customer data exists.
What you get
Complete visibility to enable compliance and reduce risk
Centralized policy-driven discovery
Use out-of-the-box sensitive elements to scan for PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, and most other compliance regulations. Build your own sensitive element definitions or tailor policies for specific requirements. Centrally defined policies allow consistent enforcement across all data environments from a single platform.
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Discovery without moving or copying data
Discovery occurs entirely within the customer’s environment using an agent-based approach. There’s no need to move or duplicate data. Relocating or copying sensitive data increases the risk footprint and creates new vulnerabilities. By keeping data in place, PK Protect reduces these risks and delivers secure, in-place discovery.
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Actionable insights with comprehensive protection
After discovery, immediately remediate risk with a full spectrum of protection options. You can classify, encrypt, mask, redact, delete, or quarantine. Easily ensure compliance and safeguard data from a unified platform that automates data discovery and protection.
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See how smart data security reduces breach impact
Discover how much time, cost, and risk you can save with intelligent data discovery and posture management. Our interactive Data Breach Calculator helps you quantify the business impact—from reduced compliance overhead to minimized data exposure.
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Questions
Data Discovery Platform FAQs
PK Protect identifies a wide range of sensitive data, including PCI, PII, PHI, and data subject to regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. You can also customize detection for unique data elements specific to your organization.
Yes. PK Protect provides coverage across endpoints, servers, on-premises systems, cloud environments, databases, data lakes, packaged applications, and mainframes from one platform.
Absolutely. PK Protect has enterprise-grade speed and scalability. It’s capable of scanning thousands of applications and databases efficiently, even in highly complex environments.
Once discovery is complete, our data discovery solution enables immediate remediation. Choose from options like classification, encryption, masking, redaction, deletion, or quarantine from a unified platform.