Comforte’s Discovery and Classification solution is a unique and proprietary passive network packet capture process to identify sensitive data (such as highly-regulated PII) flowing through the organization. This flow visibility enables our solution to identify repositories (databases, applications, file systems, and log files) where sensitive data resides. The solution then does a comprehensive scan of those repositories to get full visibility into the depth and breadth of the data environment. Finally, it analyzes and consolidates the data identified as a result of those scans in a structure that allows the user to see data lineage, respond to subject access requests, identify production data in non-production locations, and many other privacy, security, and data governance tasks.