What are the best sensitive data discovery solutions for finding PII across enterprise databases without drowning in complexity? I keep coming back to this because the enterprise tools that find the most can also be the hardest to stand up, so simplicity matters. A few from the sensitive data discovery category:
If you rolled one of these out across enterprise databases, which gave you real PII coverage without a months-long project? And where did complexity sneak back in?
##### Post Metadata - Posted at: 14 days ago - Author title: Marketer - Net upvotes: 1 ## Comments ### Comment 1 "Agentless" is doing double duty in these descriptions, it's being used as shorthand for ease of setup, but it's also a real coverage-scope decision worth separating out. An agentless scanner generally only sees data at rest that it's been granted read access to at scan time, so PII that passes through transiently, application logs, message queues, cached query results, can slip past it in a way a more invasive, agent-based approach would catch. The same architectural choice that makes Ground Labs or Nightfall fast to stand up is also what defines their specific blind spot, so "agentless equals simple" is true, but it's not the whole story on coverage, and that's probably where the complexity this post is trying to avoid ends up sneaking back in anyway, just later, when something transient gets missed. ##### Comment Metadata - Posted at: 10 days ago - Author title: Tech Consultant ## Related discussions - [How well does Trello scale into a larger team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/1-how-well-does-trello-scale-into-a-larger-team) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 6 - [Can we please add a new section](https://www.g2.com/discussions/2-can-we-please-add-a-new-section) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 0 - [Quantifiable benefits from implementing your CRM](https://www.g2.com/discussions/quantifiable-benefits-from-implementing-your-crm) - Posted at: over 13 years ago - Comments: 4