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An engine that discovers personal data across your databases and presents it for review before approval

Governata scans your data sources and flags columns likely to hold personal data with a clear confidence score, so your team decides whether to approve or dismiss each one.

Automated scanning

Confidence score

Defined categories

Human review

Approve or reject

Protecting personal data starts with knowing where it is

No organization can protect data when it does not know which table and which column that data sits in.

Six capabilities balancing automation and review

Automated discovery cuts months from a manual inventory, and human review is what makes the result accurate.

Automated source scanning

Scanning connected databases to flag columns likely to hold personal data.

Confidence score

An indicator of how likely each column holds personal data, so review starts with the strongest candidates.

Detected category

Automatic categorization of the type of personal data in a column, based on analysis.

Result review

Presenting detected items for review and verification of their categorization before any decision.

Approval or rejection

Approving an item as personal data or dismissing it, with the status kept on record.

Manual entry

Recording personal data the automated scan did not detect and bringing it into the same review cycle.

How an item is settled in Governata?

1
Scanning

Scanning connected data sources and flagging columns likely to hold personal data.

2
Prioritization

Ordering items by confidence score so review begins with the strongest candidates.

3
Review

Opening item details and verifying the data type and the category assigned to it.

4
Decision

Approving or rejecting the item, and documenting its status and the reason behind the decision.

Who benefits from PII Detection in Governata?

Data stewards

A prioritized shortlist to review, instead of scanning tables column by column.

Privacy officers

A picture of where personal data sits across systems, which is the starting point of any compliance work.

Compliance teams

Documented evidence that the organization inventories and reviews its personal data regularly.

Information security teams

Knowing where sensitive data resides, so security controls can be directed to the right places.

Item states within the discovery cycle

Detected

An item flagged by the automated scan and not yet reviewed, so it is not relied on until settled.

Pending

An item whose review has begun without a final decision, and which stays visible in the review queue.

Approved

An item reviewed and confirmed as personal data, which then enters the personal data inventory.

Rejected

An item reviewed and found not to be personal data, which is dismissed with the reason recorded.

FAQs about personal data discovery

What is personal data?

It is any data through which an individual can be identified directly or indirectly, such as a national ID number, an email address, or a phone number.

No. Scanning works on likelihood rather than certainty, which is why human review remains necessary before any result is approved.

It is an indicator of how likely a column holds personal data. A higher score means higher review priority, not a certain result.

Detected data was flagged by the automated scan and not yet reviewed. Approved data has been reviewed and confirmed as personal data.

Because compliance rests on a documented decision rather than a scan result. Review is what turns discovery into a position you can defend.

It can be recorded manually and brought into the same review cycle, so it does not stay outside the inventory.

Start your personal data inventory with automated scanning and documented review

A scan that flags likely columns with a clear confidence score, and human review that settles each item and records its decision.