Data Discovery, Classification and Mapping Software
Privacy compliance starts with knowing where personal data lives. Sigmify GRC discovers it across on-premise and cloud systems, applications, and third parties, classifies it by sensitivity, purpose, and risk under DPDPA, GDPR, and other privacy laws, and, integrated with SIEM and HRM, keeps an audit-ready record of how it's collected, processed, shared, and retained.
What We Actually Discover
Discover and manage personal and sensitive data across all on-premises and cloud systems, applications, and third-party vendors.
How Classification Works
We classify data by sensitivity, purpose, and risk using DPDPA-aligned taxonomies.
What You Get Out of It
- A continuously updated Record of Processing Activities (RoPA)
- A comprehensive data inventory
- Audit-ready compliance reports
How Discovery Feeds RoPA and Compliance Evidence
Data discovery isn't standalone. It's the foundation RoPA, cross-border oversight, and every other compliance record are built on. Here's what automation changes for the two records that usually take the most manual effort.
Systems & Data Sources We Scan
Every environment where personal data actually lives, covered without a separate discovery exercise for each one.
Databases & Data Warehouses
Structured stores across the environment.
Cloud Storage & Object Storage
Unstructured and semi-structured cloud repositories.
File Shares & Document Repositories
Network shares and document management systems.
Email & Collaboration Platforms
Where personal data often hides in plain sight.
SaaS & Enterprise Applications
The application layer, not just the database layer.
On-Premise Servers & Legacy Systems
Older infrastructure that still holds personal data.
How Discovery Becomes an Audit-Ready Record
One continuous pipeline, not four separate projects.
Discover
Scan systems, applications, and third parties for personal data.
Classify
Tag it by sensitivity, purpose, and risk.
Map
Trace its path from collection to deletion.
Prove It
Keep RoPA and audit evidence current, automatically.
Personal Data Doesn't Stay Where You Put It
Personal data rarely stays put, and that creates two problems most privacy programs still handle by hand.
It documents what data is processed, why, and with whom it’s shared, but kept by hand, it falls out of date the moment systems, applications, or vendors change.
Ad hoc, vendor-by-vendor review can’t keep pace with data that moves the instant a new integration goes live.
DPDPA and GDPR don’t just ask what data you hold. They require you to demonstrate purpose limitation and data minimization for every element of it, and to know exactly which vendors, processors, and jurisdictions it has reached. That’s a continuous visibility problem, not a one-time inventory, and it only gets harder as source systems, applications, and vendors change.
Sigmify GRC closes that gap at the source, discovering, classifying, and mapping personal data continuously so RoPA, cross-border oversight, and every downstream compliance record stay current with reality.
Comprehensive
End-to-end visibility across the data lifecycle through integrated discovery, classification, and mapping across systems, processes, and third parties, for accurate, audit-ready documentation.
Timely
Automated discovery, continuous monitoring, and real-time updates to data maps and compliance status, with SIEM and HRM-powered alerts helping you detect changes, respond to risks, and meet DPDPA, GDPR, and other obligations on time.
Assured
Standardized controls, automated validations, and evidence-based reporting, for consistent compliance and measurable improvement in data protection maturity.
Inside the Data Discovery, Classification & Mapping Module
Capability by capability, this is how the platform keeps the data map, and everything built on it, current.
Discovery
Every System, Scanned Automatically
Automated PII data discovery finds personal and sensitive data without manual cataloging:
Scans structured and unstructured data sources across on-premise and cloud environments
Continuously monitors data assets and how they’re used
Keeps compliance mapping accurate even as the environment evolves
Classification
Classification That Does More Than Label
Personal data is classified by sensitivity, purpose, and risk, using taxonomies aligned to the applicable regulation. Sigmify GRC goes further:
Uses predefined DPDPA aligned taxonomies
Uses that tagging to enforce security controls, retention policies, and consent management, not just to label a record
Mapping
The Full Path, Not a Snapshot
End-to-end mapping traces personal data’s full path, from collection to deletion, including internal processing and third-party sharing. Sigmify GRC keeps that map current, not periodic:
Continuously updates the map as changes happen
Reflects source systems, applications, and vendors being added, removed, or reconfigured
RoPA
RoPA That Keeps Itself Current
RoPA, the record of what personal data is processed, why, and with whom it’s shared, falls out of date fast when it’s kept by hand. Sigmify GRC generates and maintains it automatically instead:
Builds RoPA from the same discovery, classification, and mapping data it already collects
Links each processing activity to its data elements, purpose, lawful basis, and third-party sharing
Updates automatically as the underlying data map changes
That gives data protection officers and privacy teams an always-current RoPA rather than a point-in-time snapshot.
Lawful Basis
Every Data Element Tied to Its Reason
Purpose and lawful basis mapping links data elements to the purposes and lawful bases, such as consent or legitimate use, that justify handling them under laws like DPDPA and GDPR. Sigmify GRC applies this by:
Linking each data element to its processing purpose and lawful basis
Helping demonstrate the purpose limitation and data minimization principles central to the DPDPA
Cross-Border
Where Data Goes After It Leaves
Cross-border data transfer mapping identifies which vendors, processors, and external entities receive data, and the transfer mechanism used for each flow:
Contractual safeguards
Consent-based transfer
Jurisdictional restriction
Sigmify GRC tracks this third-party and cross-border activity continuously, for ongoing oversight of transfer restrictions.
Risk
Not All Data Carries the Same Risk
Privacy risk gets prioritized by scoring datasets and processing activities on volume, sensitivity, and exposure. Sigmify GRC does exactly this:
Combines compliance data with live activity signals
Prioritizes remediation and flags high-risk areas requiring impact assessments
Evidence
Evidence, Ready Before the Auditor Asks
Sigmify GRC automatically generates all three, backed by activity logs and monitoring data:
RoPA records
Data inventories
Compliance reports aligned with DPDPA, GDPR, and other Data Privacy Act requirements
Coverage
Integrations Connected to Your SIEM and HRM
Discovery shows where personal data is stored. SIEM and HRM integration shows who is using it and how. Sigmify GRC connects to both so the data map stays current on its own:
SIEM: access and activity logs flag new data flows, unusual access, and data leaving a jurisdiction
HRM: joiner, mover, and leaver changes keep employee data and access rights in the inventory up to date
Together: change alerts, risk signals, and log evidence feed every RoPA, risk score, and audit report
Nothing needs updating by hand when people, systems, or vendors change.
Know Where Every Piece of Personal Data Lives
See how Sigmify GRC turns data discovery into an always-current RoPA, data inventory, and audit-ready evidence trail.