Build a modern data compliance strategy with Datadog's Sensitive Data Scanner

The Sensitive Data Scanner is a tool designed to help governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) teams discover, classify, and protect sensitive information within distributed applications. It provides real-time visibility and control over the data that application services are logging, enabling automatic identification of sensitive data, classification as high or low risk, and protection through scrubbing or hashing for correlation or auditing purposes. The scanner helps eliminate data exposure blind spots and allows organizations to remain compliant with various regulations while keeping data safe. Customizable scanners can detect potential data leaks, and teams can leverage tags to grant or deny access to logs containing sensitive information. Additionally, the Sensitive Data Scanner offers options for automatic obfuscation of sensitive information in logs through hashing or scrubbing. GRC teams can create alerts and visualize flagged logs to monitor services violating compliance standards and take appropriate actions to ensure customer data confidentiality.