Data Retention
PK Protect: optimize data retention
Automatically discover and remediate outdated data to mitigate exposure risk, reduce costs, and ensure compliance.
Trusted by leading organizations for over 40 years
Strengthen your data retention strategy
Old data is high-risk data. It’s often forgotten, unmonitored, or stored outside approved locations. PK Protect automatically discovers sensitive data outside retention policy guidelines. It can delete or quarantine what is no longer needed and secure what you must keep.
Why PK Protect
Automated data retention policy
Mitigate unnecessary risk
Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data creates risk. PK Protect limits the amount of sensitive information attackers could access if your environment is compromised. It automatically deletes, encrypts, redacts, or masks data to shrink your attack surface.
Automate retention for compliance
Organizations must retain data for compliance, but not longer than necessary. PK Protect enforces internal and legal retention policies across all repositories. This ensures that data is always secure and kept only for the required time to ensure compliance and reduce risk.
Reduce storage costs
By eliminating data that no longer provides business value, organizations free up storage and reduce costs. Ensure you aren’t wasting time or money storing redundant or unnecessary data.
Visibility and remediation for obsolete data
A Fortune 500 U.S. insurance company uses PK Protect to locate sensitive data more than five, seven, and 10 years old. This provides visibility of data that has aged out of the organization. Their teams review this data and notify end users with a deadline to act. After the deadline, they delete the data or use our solution to remediate it automatically.
What you get
Features for unified data retention
Comprehensive discovery
With sprawling cloud and on-prem databases, legacy systems, stale SharePoint sites, neglected file shares, and unmanaged endpoints, it’s difficult to know where all data resides. Automated discovery surfaces ROT data in unexpected or unknown locations, giving security teams visibility they’ve been missing.
Centralized protection
Enforce retention policies uniformly across all files and data sources to remove or secure sensitive data that no longer has business value. Choose to classify, encrypt, mask, redact, delete, or quarantine. Customize out-of-the-box policies to meet your needs.
Persistent data retention policy
Embed protection into sensitive data that you must keep, so it stays secure when moved, shared, and used. Don’t rely on perimeter defenses or permissions alone. Improve security by safeguarding the data itself.
See the benefits of smarter data security
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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