IBM Guardium Discover and Classify
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Overview
IBM Guardium Discover and Classify boosts the security and compliance of enterprise data by using contextual AI for data discovery and classification across mainframe VSAM datasets, cloud databases, and structured and unstructured data systems. It provides automated sensitive data discovery, classification, and labeling to help organizations understand where sensitive data resides and ensure appropriate protection controls are applied. The platform integrates with IBM's broader data security and compliance portfolio for comprehensive data protection.
- Pricing model
- Subscription
- Deployment
- SaaS (vendor-hosted), Self-hosted / on-premises
- Regions served
- Global
- Categories
- Language (LLM / NLP), Subscription, Software & technology, Compliance monitoring, Self-hosted / on-premises, Predictive / classical ML, Horizontal platform, SaaS (vendor-hosted), Data security & privacy, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Enterprise / custom quote
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
- Published
- 2 October 2026
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Data sources & provenance
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- Data quality
- Data quality: Editorially Reviewed
- Primary source
- ibm.com
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 27 September 2026
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
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