Discover & Classify·Data classification and context enrichment

Find sensitive files. Turn classification into control.

Discover who created a file, who owns it, when it changed and which policies apply. Classify its content and context into a sensitivity category, then use that decision to trigger policy-driven protection in supported workflows.

See it. Classify it. Seal it.

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How Discover & Classify works

Know the file. Classify with context.

Discover reveals the file’s metadata and associated policies. Classify combines that context with content analysis to assign the right sensitivity category.

Discover

File metadata & policy

Understand the file before deciding how to protect it.

File identity: Name, type and location
Created by / owned by: Original creator and current owner
File activity: Created date and last updated
Ownership status: Accountable owner or orphaned file
Access: Who can access the file and with which permissions

Associated policies

Existing access, sharing and retention rules associated with the file.

Classify

Sensitivity category

Read the content. Apply the classification rules.

Public
Approved for public access
Internal
For use within the organisation
Confidential
Sensitive business information
Restricted
Limited to specifically authorised people
Classified
Handled under the defined security taxonomy

Content + context
OCR, keywords and patterns, informed by the file’s metadata and policy rules.

One policy-informed decision

The category can trigger protection through Vaultize Seal when configured policy requires it.

Metadata availability depends on the connected system and supported deployment. Categories follow your configured taxonomy.

Context enrichment

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Signals that give policy context.

Discovery builds the file’s context: identity, ownership, activity, access and associated policies. Classification adds sensitivity. Together, these signals inform how the file should be handled. Discover & Classify supports more than thirty metadata attributes; availability depends on the connected system and deployment.

Identity

What the file is

Which classification rules apply, and which taxonomy label fits.

Mark persistently · Seal on classification

The moment a file is classified, it is already protected.

Classification labels and watermarks are designed to travel with the file, visible to every viewer and persisting through copy and forward in supported workflows. Classification metadata is embedded in the file itself so the policy decision remains available when the file is renamed, copied or moved.

When policy calls for protection, the classification event hands the file to Vaultize Seal, which can apply rights and encryption in the same workflow. The decision is recorded in the audit trail and is designed to persist through supported rename, copy and move operations.

Persistent visual watermarks
Per-session identity watermark
Classification metadata embedded in the file
Real-time hand-off to Vaultize Seal
Auto-applied protection profile
Immutable audit trail

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Where Discover & Classify fits

Three estates that stop being a report and start being governed.

Locate regulated personal data

A DPO must know where Aadhaar, PAN and other personal identifiers live.

Find PII and sensitive identifiers across repositories and endpoints, then align handling with DPDP, Aadhaar and PAN rule packs. The record shows what was found and how it was classified.

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Bring accumulated files under control

Years of unclassified content grow faster than anyone can tag it.

Discover and classify in bulk, inherit labels from folder structure and prior versions, and seal confidential content as it is classified, so a backlog becomes a governed estate.

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Govern third-party sharing

Contracts, case files and submissions leave the building every day.

Use classification context to trigger protection before sensitive files move to vendors, partners or external recipients. What leaves, leaves under policy.

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Part of one platform

Classify once. Apply the decision across Vaultize.

Discover & Classify is where the journey begins. The context it captures informs the rest of the platform through one policy engine, one audit plane and one administrative surface.

Vaultize Seal

Protect at source

The classification triggers Seal’s DRM in the same operation: rights, encryption and watermark bound to the file.

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Governance and evidence

Every classification decision leaves evidence.

Separation of duties is built in, so no single role can both set the rules and quietly weaken the consequences. Every label, override and reclassification is recorded in an immutable audit trail.

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Security and compliance define the classification taxonomy and the rule packs.
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Business owners apply classification inside their own domains, where they understand the content.
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End users confirm or correct labels at the moments they know the file best.
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Platform administrators operate the system but do not author the taxonomy.

One file’s record Illustrative

Label applied

Confidential · by rule pack · content and context

User confirmed

business owner · label kept

Context changed

shared externally · reclassified Restricted

Protection triggered

Vaultize Seal · rights and encryption applied

Audit recorded

immutable · exportable · one file

FAQ

Questions buyers ask about Discover & Classify.

Discovery brings together file identity, creator and current owner, created and last-updated dates, access permissions and associated policies. It makes this context available to classification and policy decisions. The metadata available depends on the connected system and supported deployment.

See your data discovered, classified, and protected.

Bring one repository. We will show what Discover & Classify finds in it, how each file is classified, and which protection the label triggers, with the record to prove it.

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