Data Sensitivity Module — Overview

Know where your most sensitive data lives, before it becomes a risk

The Data Sensitivity module gives you continuous, automated visibility into sensitive data across your environment, helping you reduce regulatory risk, support audits, and confidently govern data at scale.

What is the Data Sensitivity module?

The Data Sensitivity module is Bigeye’s centralized solution for discovering, classifying, and tracking sensitive data in structured data sources. It brings together scanning, classification, and findings into a single, auditable experience that shows what sensitive data exists, where it lives, and how it changes over time.

Automated scan jobs

Scan jobs let you define what data should be scanned and when. They run automatically on a schedule or on demand, providing a reliable foundation for ongoing sensitive data discovery.

Multiple scan types for cost and coverage control

The module supports several scan types—full, incremental, sampled, and auto—to balance coverage, performance, and cost. This flexibility allows teams to scan high-risk data deeply while keeping large or lower-risk datasets efficient.

Powerful, customizable classifiers

Classifiers define how sensitive data is detected. You can use Bigeye’s out-of-the-box classifiers for common regulations or create custom classifiers tailored to your organization’s unique data patterns.

Data classes and sensitivity levels

Data classes and sensitivity levels standardize how sensitive data is labeled across the platform. This creates a shared language for privacy, security, and governance teams when evaluating risk and compliance.

Scan runs and historical tracking

Each scan job produces scan runs that capture results at a specific point in time. These historical records provide an audit trail and make it easy to understand how sensitive data findings evolve. Findings are available as single-run snapshots or as aggregated views across all runs of a scan job. Together, these views support both point-in-time analysis and long-term risk assessment.

Exports and audit-ready reporting

Findings can be exported in common formats for sharing with auditors and stakeholders. Exports are clearly labeled to distinguish between snapshot and aggregate results, reducing the risk of misinterpretation.

Role-based access and safety controls

Role-based permissions control who can configure scans, manage classifiers, and view sensitive results. These controls help ensure sensitive data discovery is powerful, but safe by default.