To discover sensitive data, a data security platform reads across file shares, databases, email, cloud storage and collaboration platforms. It needs credentials for each of them, and write access wherever teams want to remediate. What it produces is just as valuable: a current map of where regulated and confidential data sits and what it contains.
These tools can be thought of alongside SIEM or privileged access management platforms, holding privileged access and high-value information, and need to be protected in much the same way. It also means including these platforms in decisions about where data lives and who controls it.
Regulations across many parts of the world are driving organizations to reevaluate where their data lives and the systems they rely on to govern and control it. At the start of the year, Gartner forecast worldwide sovereign cloud IaaS spending of $80 billion in 2026, up 35.6% on 2025.
This process usually starts with the data: customer records, payment data, health information.
Data security platforms need the same consideration, because they map where sensitive data exists across the organization and hold the access needed to scan and monitor it.
For organizations that want control over their data and its supporting infrastructure, these platforms need to stay under their full control.
Deploying data security platforms on premises or in client-managed cloud environments keeps the systems under the organization’s administrative control, and the valuable information they hold stays within the organization’s own boundaries.
Enterprise Recon is built for organizations that want to keep that control. It runs in their own data centers or cloud tenancies, so teams can find and remediate sensitive data across the estate while the platform, and everything it finds, stays in the organization’s hands.
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