Data discovery & classification

Enterprise Data Discovery &Classification for DPDP Compliance

Find personal data. Understand its purpose. Build a reviewed inventory.

AquaConsento Data Discovery helps your team locate personal data in supported databases and files, review classifications with supporting evidence, and map findings to business purposes and consent coverage.

See the product workflow and discuss supported sources, deployment and next steps.

AquaConsento Data Discovery dashboard
Your DPDP programme starts with your data

Know what you hold, and what needs attention

Personal data can be distributed across systems, files and business teams. AquaConsento brings discovered fields, their processing context and review decisions into a structured workflow.

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Visibility into scanned sources

See which personal-data fields were identified and where they were found.

02

Classifications your team can review

Inspect the evidence, confirm findings and correct classifications.

03

Purpose and consent context

Connect reviewed data to its business use and available consent evidence.

04

A governed personal data inventory

Promote approved findings into managed records and identify what still needs attention.

From discovered fields to reviewed privacy records—in one connected workflow.

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Enterprise data discovery connectors

Check your data sources against our supported connectors

Start with the databases and files in your discovery scope. Confirm available connectors and the access requirements for your environment with our team.

Connect. Scan. Understand.

Database discovery

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Microsoft SQL Server

File-based discovery

CSV

XLSX

Manual

Manual source registration

Record systems that are not directly scannable, including their owner and business context. Manual registration adds them to the source register; it does not automatically scan their contents.

Built for controlled enterprise discovery

Controlled discovery Clear access boundaries

Understand how discovery accesses your sources, handles evidence and limits exposure before connecting your environment.

Inspect structure and metadata first wherever sufficient for discovery.

Use bounded sampling only where additional classification evidence is required and appropriately configured.

Provide useful evidence to reviewers without unnecessarily displaying complete source records.

Protect connector credentials rather than exposing saved secrets through the application.

Discovery connections are configured with the minimum access necessary for the approved discovery scope.

Sources, scans, findings, mappings and discovery evidence remain scoped to the appropriate organisation.

Maintain context around scanning, classification, review and mapping decisions.

How AquaConsento data discovery works

See the workflow from source to approved inventory

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01Connect your data sources

Bring your enterprise data landscape into view

Register the databases, files and systems that form part of your discovery scope.

Capture each source’s environment, business owner and purpose while maintaining controlled access to connection credentials.

Register and manage enterprise data sources from one controlled discovery workspace.
Database
Discovery
Finding
Data Discovery & Classification

Don't just find data Understand what it is

AquaConsento identifies candidate personal-data fields using available metadata, formats and configured detection rules. Your team can inspect the supporting evidence, confirm the classification or correct it before the finding becomes an approved record.

Findings can include categories such as:

Identity DataContact DataFinancial DataAuthentication DataLocation DataDevice & Digital IdentifiersEmployment DataEducation DataHealth-Related DataBehavioural Data
and other organisation-specific personal-data categories.

Every finding is designed to provide context rather than simply generate another alert.

AquaConsento Data Discovery source registry

What was discovered?

Where was it found?

How was it classified?

How confident is the classification?

What evidence supports it?

Evidence, not assumptions.

Human review stays in the loop

A discovery scanner should not automatically become your organisation's compliance truth.

AquaConsento treats discovered classifications as evidence-backed candidate findings.

Automation identifies candidates. Your team controls what becomes an approved privacy record.

See human review in action
AquaConsento discovery and action workspace
01 — Human review

Discover & take action

Scan your data estate to find sensitive information & reduce risks.

AquaConsento schedules and drift monitoring workspace
02 — Human review

Schedules & Drifts

Run metadata only discovery on a controlled cadence, compare each successful scan with its prior baseline.

AquaConsento personal data classification workspace
03 — Human review

Find & classify

Automatically discover, classify, and review personal data across your enterprise.

AquaConsento data lineage map workspace
04 — Human review

Data Lineage

Automate data discovery, map relations, and connect to processing purpose and consent evidence.

AquaConsento consent gap assessment workspace
05 — Human review

Find, Assess & protect

Discover your data, check it against declared purposes and consent context, and close the gaps automatically.

AquaConsento data discovery audit evidence workspace
Personal Data / PII Discovery with business context

Map personal data to its business purpose

Connect a reviewed finding with the data element it represents, the team responsible for it and the purpose for which it is processed.

Bring source, ownership, purpose and relevant consent-template information into a structured view that your privacy and technology teams can review together.

Discuss your data discovery requirements
Source
Field
Data Element
Purpose
Relevant Consent Template

This turns technical discovery into actionable privacy intelligence.

From data discovery to PII inventory

Turn approved findings into a personal data inventory

Promote reviewed and approved findings into AquaConsento's managed inventory, with their source, mapped data element and supporting review context. Keep automatically discovered candidates separate from approved records, while making outstanding gaps visible to the teams responsible for them.

AquaConsento interface showing the reviewed finding stage

Turn discovery into action

Use the governed inventory to keep outstanding classification, mapping, ownership and evidence work visible.

  • Classification requiring review
  • Missing purpose mapping
  • Ownership gaps
  • Incomplete evidence
  • Unmapped data elements
  • Unexpected personal-data fields within scanned sources.
Why AquaConsento data discovery?

Evaluate AquaConsento against your actual environment

Use the first discussion to establish technical fit and the scope of a meaningful evaluation—not just to watch a generic presentation.

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01

Confirm your sources

Discuss the databases, files and business systems you need to assess.

02

Clarify access and evidence handling

Review connection requirements, discovery scope, sampling and evidence controls.

03

Walk through the product

See how a finding is discovered, reviewed, mapped and approved.

04

Define the next step

Discuss deployment, implementation responsibilities and the appropriate commercial scope.

One connected privacy operating layer

Connect discovery with your wider privacy programme

Use reviewed discovery findings alongside AquaConsento’s inventory, purpose, consent and audit capabilities. Discuss which modules and integrations are included in the scope proposed for your organisation.

Data Discovery

Find and classify personal data.

Consent Management

Connect processing with consent decisions and evidence.

PII Inventory

Maintain reviewed and approved privacy records.

Privacy Rights

Operationalise Data Principal requests.

Processing Purposes

Understand why data is being used.

Audit & Governance

Maintain traceable privacy operations.

Built for data-intensive enterprises

Data discovery by industry

AquaConsento Data Discovery is designed for organisations where personal data is distributed across multiple systems, owners and business processes.

Particularly relevant for:

Discuss your requirements
Indian banking professionals reviewing customer onboarding information
Common Questions

Frequently AskedQuestions

Need a data discovery walkthrough?

Speak with our team about your systems, privacy workflow, and the right next step for your DPDP programme.

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AquaConsento is DPDP-ready consent management software for Indian enterprises. It helps teams collect consent, manage consent records, deploy templates, preserve audit evidence, handle privacy requests, give users transparency, and control internal access from one governed operating layer.
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