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Data Discovery and Protection for Data Stores, Cloud, and Applications

Reduce risk with proactive security across structured and unstructured data in databases, data lakes, cloud repositories, applications, and ERPs.

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Proactive Enterprise-Wide Data Security and Compliance

Sensitive data often ends up where it doesn’t belong. Its proliferation across distributed environments increases risk and complicates compliance. PK Protect Data Store Manager (DSM) discovers and masks sensitive data across all environments. Even in the event of a breach, data stays protected.

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Why PK Protect Data Store Manager?

Ensure Compliance

Comprehensive Platform Coverage

DSM supports a broad range of platforms, including Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, DB2, Hadoop, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Salesforce, and more. It delivers accurate enterprise-wide visibility and protection to close security gaps. One of the top U.S. banks depends on DSM to gain actionable insight and ensure compliance. It identifies sensitive data across 400+ applications, including 18,000 databases containing nearly a million tables.

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Ensure Compliance

Optimized Data Retention

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data increases storage costs, expands your attack surface, and makes compliance difficult. DSM enables data minimization with automated discovery and policy-driven masking. Preserve only what’s necessary and protect what’s sensitive. Reduce exposure without compromising operational needs.

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Secure, Compliant Data Usage

Masking keeps sensitive data protected while maintaining its usability. DSM de-identifies copies of production data, so developers only work with secure, compliant datasets. It also ensures compliance by obfuscating data before it’s fed into AI models.

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Driving Compliance, Visibility, and Protection at Western Union

“PKWARE has become a trusted strategic partner in strengthening Western Union’s data governance and security posture. Their solutions give us visibility into sensitive data, simplify compliance, enable our data subject access request responses, and help us to meet our privacy and protection objectives.”

-Craig Sharkey, Former Chief Privacy and Data Governance Officer, Western Union 

Driving Compliance, Visibility, and Protection at Western Union

PK Protect Datastore Manager Features

Data Discovery v1

Discovery

Automatically scan repositories to ensure sensitive information isn’t where it shouldn’t be. Accurate discovery resolves visibility gaps, so security teams can take fast, informed actions to secure data.

Data Masking v1

Masking

DSM mitigates risks at scale by concealing confidential data from unauthorized access. Masking protects customer, financial, and regulated data, enabling secure use without exposure.

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Data Store Manager FAQs

PK Protect Data Store Manager supports discovery and masking on structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It can do so across various platforms, including:

  • On-prem (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, etc.)
  • Cloud databases (e.g., Amazon Redshift, AWS RDS, Azure SQL, Google CloudSQL)
    Hadoop
  • Cloud file repositories (e.g., AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Data Lake, and Blob storages)
  • Packaged applications (e.g., Salesforce, Dynamics CRM, Neo4J)
Yes. PK Protect Data Store Manager scans and protects petabytes of data across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. It applies policy-driven remediation, such as masking, tokenization, or encryption, automatically. A top U.S. Bank uses PK Protect Data Store Manager to discover and protect sensitive data in over 400 applications, including 18,000 Databases containing nearly a million tables.
Yes. DSM is highly configurable. It allows organizations to define custom policies and remediation workflows and integrate with existing security frameworks.

Yes. It automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data across on-prem, cloud, databases, data lakes, packaged applications, and even mainframes. This includes the discovery of untracked or forgotten data, known as “shadow data.” Once it discovers and classifies the data, PK Protect Data Store Manager applies policy-driven masking to eliminate hidden risks.

Yes. PK Protect Data Store Manager meets the requirements of major data protection regulations, including PCI DSS, GLBA, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and FISMA. It offers automated policy enforcement, audit-ready reporting, and pre-built sensitive data types that are customizable to streamline compliance across all environments.