Company
Date Published
Author
Tori Teng, Aaron Kaplan
Word count
1425
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Datadog's Sensitive Data Scanner is a tool designed to help organizations manage sensitive information in their telemetry data, ensuring compliance with governance, risk management, and security requirements. The scanner automatically identifies sensitive data, defines high- and low-risk categories, and provides redaction or hashing options. It offers a centralized interface for comprehensive visibility into potential data compliance issues, context-aware classification, and fast troubleshooting. Sensitive Data Scanner enables users to discover, triage, troubleshoot, and track data compliance issues through a central interface, providing key information such as scanning rules, sensitive data events, and blast radius details. The tool also integrates with Datadog Case Management and Incident Management, allowing for coordinated responses to potential data leaks and enabling the creation of cases, Jira tickets, and remediation tasks. By leveraging Sensitive Data Scanner, organizations can scale their data compliance posture, conduct triage and troubleshooting, and assign and track remediation tasks, ultimately ensuring adherence to strict compliance requirements and regulations.