Data Discovery and Mapping

Automated Data Retention

Who benefits from data discovery and mapping?

With a living, breathing data catalog, organizations have no more blind spots or static inventories—just a single, continuously updated catalog that powers smarter compliance, faster investigations, and stronger protection.

CPOs and Privacy Program Managers

No more struggling to find personal data and prove compliance

CISOs and Security Architects

Gain full visibility into sensitive data to reduce exposure.

Directors of Information Governance

Identify and defensibly dispose of redundant, obsolete, or trivial (ROT) data.

eDiscovery Managers and Litigation Support Lead

Identify data faster and more precisely for legal holds and collections.

IT Administrators or Data Platform Owner

Connect systems as required and maintain least-privilege, auditable access.

Data Discovery and Mapping

Achieve smarter business outcomes with Exterro

With the deep data insight Exterro provides, you can achieve measurable results that move the needle for your business.

Dramatically faster time to insight

Across privacy, security, and discovery workflows

Greater confidence in compliance posture

With complete, evidence-backed visibility

Reduced investigation and response costs

Gain deeper insight with targeted, economical scans.

Stronger data protection

Maintain breach resilience through continuous discovery.

Defensible policies for retention and disposition

Ground policies in the realities of your data landscape.

Capabilities delivered by Exterro

Evergreen Data Catalog

An always-current view of what data you have, where it lives, who it relates to, and how sensitive it is

Patented Source Discovery

Automatically uncovers all data repositories across your enterprise and ranks them by risk and relevance.

AI-Driven Classification

Exterro Intelligence precisely identifies personal, sensitive, and regulated data across structured and unstructured sources with customer data staying securely in their environment.

Defensible Disposition & Retention Enforcement

Locate ROT data, apply policy, and defensibly dispose of what no longer serves business or legal purpose.

Seamless Workflow Integration

Feed accurate, current data into DSARs, RoPAs, DPIAs, and targeted eDiscovery collections.

Audit-Ready Reporting

Demonstrate compliance with evidence trails for every action taken.

Part of the Exterro Data Privacy, Security, and Governance suite—unifying data understanding across privacy, security, and legal teams.

How Exterro data discovery and mapping works

Scope & prioritize

Understand what data resides in the systems and data domains that matter most.

Connect & discover

Using patented technology that finds and ranks data sources automatically.

Classify & catalog

Personal and sensitive data across your data environment with AI-driven precision.

Enrich & analyze

Results in a dynamic data catalog that can be leveraged across multiple workstreams.

Act

Power privacy workflows, secure sensitive data, and deliver defensible results.

Prove

P‍roduce regulator-ready reporting for audits or litigation with confidence.

Integrations & data sources

Connect to the systems that matter most: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Box, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Slack, Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Oracle, SAP—and many more through Exterro’s extensive connector library and open APIs.