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Varonis Data Security Platform
Varonis
The most powerful way to find, monitor, and protect sensitive data at scale. Rapidly reduce risk, detect abnormal behavior, and prove compliance with the all-in-one data security platform that won’t slow you down. A platform, a team, and a plan that give you every possible advantage. Classification, access governance and behavioral analytics combine to lock down data, stop threats, and take the pain out of compliance. We bring you a proven methodology to monitor, protect, and manage your data informed by thousands of successful rollouts. Hundreds of elite security pros build advanced threat models, update policies, and assist with incidents, freeing you to focus on other priorities. -
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Govern 365
Netwoven
Govern 365 is a Microsoft-native governance and compliance VDR solution that enables secure, self-service collaboration across Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage. It offers AI-powered productivity through Govern 365 Copilot, secure virtual data rooms (VDRs), and automated lifecycle management, all while ensuring full data sovereignty by storing content exclusively within the organization’s own Microsoft 365 tenant. With no user limits, seamless Microsoft Purview integration, and tailored solutions for industries like Life Sciences, Healthcare, Legal, and Finance, Govern 365 stands apart from competitors by combining deep native integration, robust security, and unmatched scalability. Schedule a demo today!Starting Price: $2,549 -
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ER/Studio Enterprise Edition
ER/Studio
ER/Studio is an enterprise data modeling and architecture platform that enables organizations to design, manage, and govern data assets across complex, distributed environments, including data warehouses, lakehouses, data mesh frameworks, and data vault architectures. It connects business requirements to technical implementation through conceptual, logical, and physical models, providing clarity from strategy through deployment. By establishing a consistent modeling foundation, ER/Studio creates a reliable, shared view of enterprise data that supports analytics, AI initiatives, modernization, compliance, and operational systems. Design data models and keep teams aligned with ER/Studio’s multi-user shared repository and web-based collaboration portal, Team Server. The repository supports version control, role-based access, parallel development, and change tracking so modelers can work simultaneously without conflict, preserving integrity and full history.Starting Price: $2,687 per user -
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Microsoft Purview
Microsoft
Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multicloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data. Easily create a holistic, up-to-date map of your data landscape with automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage. Empower data consumers to find valuable, trustworthy data. Automated data discovery, lineage identification, and data classification across on-premises, multicloud, and SaaS sources. Unified map of your data assets and their relationships for more effective governance. Semantic search enables data discovery using business or technical terms. Insight into the location and movement of sensitive data across your hybrid data landscape. Establish the foundation for effective data usage and governance with Purview Data Map. Automate and manage metadata from hybrid sources. Classify data using built-in and custom classifiers and Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels.Starting Price: $0.342 -
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Tricent
Tricent
Tricent is the #1 file-sharing governance SaaS platform that helps organizations make their file-sharing more secure and compliant without sacrificing collaboration. For Microsoft 365 OneDrive & Sharepoint, and Google Workspace MyDrives and Shared Drives. Tricent enables administrators to: 🚀 Effortless Onboarding in less than 30 Minutes. 🔍 Unparalleled Insights: From day one, gain a comprehensive overview of all files shared and permissions granted—across both personal drives and shared drives. ⭕️ Bulk Remediation Made Simple: Our admin-friendly cleanup tools allow you to tackle file sprawl efficiently. 😇 Empowering End-Users Responsibly: We use automation to involve your employees in the cleanup process. . 💪🏼 Customizable Governance Policies: Set different cycles for different user groups 🔮 Stay Ahead with Abnormality Detection: Our machine learning feature keeps you informed, detecting anomalies before they escalate *Only Google WorkspaceStarting Price: €18/year/user -
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Dasera
Dasera
Dasera is a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform providing automated security and governance controls for structured and unstructured data across cloud and on-prem environments. Uniquely, Dasera monitors data in use while offering continuous visibility and automated remediation, preventing data breaches across the entire data lifecycle. Dasera provides continuous visibility, risk detection, and mitigation to align with business goals while ensuring seamless integration, unmatched security, and regulatory compliance. Through its deep understanding of the four data variables - data infrastructure, data attributes, data users, and data usage - Dasera promotes a secure data-driven growth strategy that minimizes risk and maximizes value, giving businesses a competitive edge in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape.Starting Price: 3 data stores at $20,000 -
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Asigra
Asigra
Asigra helps IT teams increase their data recovery confidence through our unsurpassed reliability, security, manageability, and affordability in data protection software. Asigra's Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) software platform was designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to host and operate their own Backup as a Service solution. The easy to manage platform offers users the ability to white-label it to match your brand, while its breakthrough Hybrid Cloud Backup architecture combines a Cloud optimized scale-out architecture, a Cloud backup and recovery software platform, and a Cloud API and management system to help IT Teams seamlessly and efficiently manage, scale and deliver data protection services. -
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Compliance Builder
Xybion
Compliance Builder™ is a real-time monitoring solution designed to enable 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, providing data integrity across IT systems such as file systems, database systems, laboratory or manufacturing instruments. By generating an audit trail and enabling electronic signatures, Compliance Builder allows you to securely track changes across all IT subsystems including file systems, databases, laboratory or manufacturing process equipment. It can be configured to monitor any file-based system for changes, including additions, deletions, and file modifications.Starting Price: 25000.00 -
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BIC Platform
GBTEC Software AG
BIC Platform is a holistic BPM software that covers the whole life cycle of process management. The vendor says it has an intuitive design that allows users to quickly start with process modeling and manage the full process cycle up to the optimization. It offers extensive features for governance and document management, as well as review and release workflows. With its modular setup, BIC Platform aims to be adaptable to user needs. BIC Platform can be operated either as a Public Cloud, Private Cloud, or On-Premises.Starting Price: $12.50/one-time -
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SecureClean
WhiteCanyon Software
SecureClean Enterprise allows you to find and permanently delete hidden, cached, temporary, and "deleted" company files on a one-time basis, or on a daily or weekly schedule. Employee computers contain hidden, cached, temporary, and "deleted" company files that can put your company at risk without you even knowing it. Most programs keep temporary or cached data and files that can contain company documents, browsing histories, passwords, web images, online banking information, deleted emails, and old instant messages. Even if employees "delete" this data, it can still be recovered using freely-available tools. Not only does this put your company data at risk, but these extra files can cause system bloat and clutter up company computers causing system performance issues. You need a way to securely find and delete this data so it can never be recovered, not just once, but on an ongoing basis.Starting Price: $39.95/one-time/user -
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PuR MetaData
Evolution Software
Remove unwanted metadata from email attachments and secure your organization today! With PuR MetaData, organizations can mitigate the risk of unwanted metadata leaving the workplace quickly and easily. PuR MetaData will decrease liability and avoid costly lawsuits by protecting your organization’s privacy, comprising information. Furthermore, PuR MetaData’s platform enables you to increase efficiency and productivity. PuR MetaData is simple, reliable, and cost-effective. Empowering users to participate in the decision-making process. Categorically organized to view the metadata within each file to independently evaluate with a risk assessment at the user level. PuR MetaData analyzes and cleans hidden information from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF attachments. Our intuitive interface helps you work more efficiently by increasing productivity and business continuity.Starting Price: $39 per year -
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OneVault
Donoma Software
Secure Multi-Data Archiving from a Single Interface OneVault archives email AND all the new data types your organization uses today. Email, Instant Messaging, Teams, Zoom, Webex & more. With OneVault you get a single interface to archive from many systems. Important data is centralized in a secure cloud platform that makes it easy to orchestrate consistent policies that also supports your business continuity plans. The single pane of glass for managing and working with records makes e-Discovery process secure, accountable, and best of all, intuitive to use. OneVault incorporates the powerful features of our stand-alone archiving solutions under a single pane of glass in an intuitive, secure, and scalable system. Start with email, expand as new systems are adopted where retention will either be required for compliance or just for ensuring access to de-facto operational commitments.Starting Price: $2.50/month/user -
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ManageEngine AD360
Zoho
AD360 is an integrated identity and access management (IAM) solution for managing user identities, governing access to resources, enforcing security, and ensuring compliance. From user provisioning, self-service password management, and Active Directory change monitoring, to single sign-on (SSO) for enterprise applications, AD360 helps you perform all your IAM tasks with a simple, easy-to-use interface. AD360 provides all these functionalities for Windows Active Directory, Exchange Servers, and Office 365. With AD360, you can just choose the modules you need and start addressing IAM challenges across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments from within a single console. Easily provision, modify, and deprovision accounts and mailboxes for multiple users at once across AD, Exchange servers, Office 365 services, and G Suite from a single console. Use customizable user creation templates and import data from CSV to bulk provision user accounts.Starting Price: $595.00 / year -
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ALTR
ALTR
Easily and simply control your sensitive data in Snowflake today so you can get more value from it in minutes instead of months. With ALTR you can automatically discover and classify sensitive data with a checkbox on import. Add controls like data masking with a drop-down menu. Set alerts and limits on data access by user, amount, and IP address from a single screen. No on-prem hassles or added costs, no proxies to break with a platform change and no managed services disguised as SaaS. ALTR was born in the cloud and natively integrates with platforms like Snowflake. With ALTR’s complete data control, you can visualize data usage, detect anomalies and alert on them, block threats in real time, and tokenize critical data. Safeguarding all your data. Because ALTR is built for the cloud, there’s no large up-front commitment—you can start for free and only upgrade as needed.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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IOMETE
IOMETE
IOMETE is a self-hosted data lakehouse platform built on Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, and Kubernetes. Run it on-premises or in your private cloud — your infrastructure, your data, your control. Built for enterprises in regulated industries, IOMETE eliminates third-party ICT risk at the data layer by architecture — not by contract. No SaaS dependencies. No data leaving your perimeter. Compliance with GDPR, DORA, and NIS2 is structural, not contractual. Included in one platform: - Data Lakehouse(s) - Data Catalog - SQL Editor - Apache Spark Jobs - ML Notebooks - Orchestration Engine - Spark Connect Key capabilities: Apache Iceberg-native storage, Kubernetes-native deployment (K8s + OpenShift), row/column/tag-based access control, Data Mesh support, air-gapped and zero-trust compatible. Transparent pricing — CPU-based, no per-query fees, no billing surprises.Starting Price: Free -
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GRC Toolbox
Swiss GRC
GRC Toolbox is an integrated software solution for governance, risk and compliance management. It combines apps that manage the fundamental functions of GRC into a single integrated solution. Customers benefit from a systematic, coordinated approach to managing GRC-related strategy and implementation. Features covered by the GRC Toolbox include risk management, internal control system (ICS), compliance management, information security management (ISMS), data protection management, audit management, contract management and business continuity management (BCM). The GRC Toolbox helps teams successfully manage risk, monitor controls, manage policies and contracts, and demonstrate compliance with laws, regulations, and security requirements. -
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Daito
Daito
Daito is a web-based 2FA authenticator for small teams and big companies alike. Securely share access, no phone is needed. Daito does only one thing, manage TOTP 2FA tokens for you and thus offers a fully isolated system, separate from your password manager. Keep your 2FA token management separate from your password management and prevent worst-case scenarios. What do you do when you store usernames, passwords, 2FA seeds, and 2FA tokens in your password manager and this password manager gets breached? The authenticator is web-first and web-only. Access and manage your company's 2FA tokens from any browser and OS. Save money and the accompanying hassle of managing company phones. No more worrying about lost, malfunctioning, or missing devices. Give IT teams and admins full control, and limit regular users. Prevent 2FA seed leakage by limiting access only to generated 2FA tokens, not the underlying seed codes.Starting Price: $19 per month -
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Decube
Decube
Decube is a data management platform that helps organizations manage their data observability, data catalog, and data governance needs. It provides end-to-end visibility into data and ensures its accuracy, consistency, and trustworthiness. Decube's platform includes data observability, a data catalog, and data governance components that work together to provide a comprehensive solution. The data observability tools enable real-time monitoring and detection of data incidents, while the data catalog provides a centralized repository for data assets, making it easier to manage and govern data usage and access. The data governance tools provide robust access controls, audit reports, and data lineage tracking to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements. Decube's platform is customizable and scalable, making it easy for organizations to tailor it to meet their specific data management needs and manage data across different systems, data sources, and departments. -
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While not all models are created equal, every model needs governance to drive responsible and ethical decision-making throughout the business. IBM® watsonx.governance™ toolkit for AI governance allows you to direct, manage and monitor your organization’s AI activities. It employs software automation to strengthen your ability to mitigate risks, manage regulatory requirements and address ethical concerns for both generative AI and machine learning (ML) models. Access automated and scalable governance, risk and compliance tools that cover operational risk, policy management, compliance, financial management, IT governance and internal or external audits. Proactively detect and mitigate model risks while translating AI regulations into enforceable policies for automatic enforcement.Starting Price: $1,050 per month
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Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance
Microsoft
Microsoft offers comprehensive compliance and data governance solutions to help your organization manage risks, protect and govern sensitive data, and respond to regulatory requirements. Safeguard sensitive data across clouds, apps, and endpoints. Identify and remediate critical risks within your organization. Investigate and respond to legal requirements with relevant data. Assess compliance and respond to regulatory requirements. Microsoft offers comprehensive compliance and data governance solutions to help your organization manage risks, protect and govern sensitive data, and respond to regulatory requirements. Simplifies compliance and helps reduce risk by translating complex regulatory requirements to specific controls and providing a quantifiable measure of compliance through compliance score. Identify and protect sensitive data including credit card, bank account, and passport numbers.Starting Price: $12 per month -
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Dataplex Universal Catalog
Google
Dataplex Universal Catalog is Google Cloud’s intelligent governance platform for data and AI artifacts. It centralizes discovery, management, and monitoring across data lakes, warehouses, and databases, giving teams unified access to trusted data. With Vertex AI integration, users can instantly find datasets, models, features, and related assets in one search experience. It supports semantic search, data lineage, quality checks, and profiling to improve trust and compliance. Integrated with BigQuery and BigLake, it enables end-to-end governance for both proprietary and open lakehouse environments. Dataplex Universal Catalog helps organizations democratize data access, enforce governance, and accelerate analytics and AI initiatives.Starting Price: $0.060 per hour -
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Collate
Collate
Collate is an AI‑driven metadata platform that empowers data teams with automated discovery, observability, quality, and governance through agent‑based workflows. Built on the open source OpenMetadata foundation and a unified metadata graph, it offers 90+ turnkey connectors to ingest metadata from databases, data warehouses, BI tools, and pipelines, delivering in‑depth column‑level lineage, data profiling, and no‑code quality tests. Its AI agents automate data discovery, permission‑aware querying, alerting, and incident‑management workflows at scale, while real‑time dashboards, interactive analyses, and a collaborative business glossary enable both technical and non‑technical users to steward high‑quality data assets. Continuous monitoring and governance automations enforce compliance with standards such as GDPR and CCPA, reducing mean time to resolution for data issues and lowering total cost of ownership.Starting Price: Free -
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MetaPrivacy
MetaCompliance
The management of data protection processes, assets, and external parties has become much more important within modern organizations. Simply being able to identify what personal data is being processed within an organization is a significant challenge given legacy systems and the complexity of information stores. MetaPrivacy is a proven privacy lifecycle management system that provides the key automation to help organizations visualize and manage their data processing over time. The solution provides out-of-the-box functionality that allows customers to quickly obtain value without extended periods of consultancy and configuration. Identify, manage and mitigate risk through a risk register and task management module. Access GDPR policies and guidelines within the system and complete related assessments. Demonstrate GDPR and privacy compliance to your national regulatory body. -
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Catalog
Coalesce
Catalog from Coalesce (formerly CastorDoc) is a data catalog designed for mass adoption across the whole company. Have an overview of all your data environment. Search for data instantly thanks to our powerful search engine. Onboard to a new data infrastructure and access data in a breeze. Go beyond your traditional data catalog. Modern data teams now have numerous data sources, build one truth. With its delightful and automated documentation experience, Catalog makes it dead simple to trust data. Column-level, cross-system data lineage in minutes. Get a bird’s eye view of your data pipelines to build trust in your data. Troubleshoot data issues, perform impact analyses, comply with GDPR in one tool. Optimize performance, cost, compliance, and security for your data. Keep your data stack healthy with our automated infrastructure monitoring system.Starting Price: $699 per month -
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DEMS
Global Data Excellence
An end-to-end system govern by value Data Excellence Management System© (DEMS) is an integrated and multilingual web-based solution (on-premise or cloud) that uses contextual intelligence based on artificial intelligence techniques and semantics to enable organisations to automate data governance, business excellence and analytics and accelerate the maximization of the business value of organisation’ strategies and transactions while minimising operational costs. DEMS provides a factual value-driven collaboration that engages end-users from all levels in the ultimate value creation. It also helps organisations to manage data policies, to comply with evolving guidelines or regulations like FINMA, GDPR… DEMS fits the maturity of your organization functions and resources. It establishes accountability and responsibility throughout the organisational structure and links the data assets to the value flows to predicatively govern business strategies.Starting Price: 75000/per domain/per year -
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RecordPoint
RecordPoint
The RecordPoint Data Trust platform helps highly regulated organizations manage records and data throughout their lifecycle, regardless of system. The customizable platform is comprised of records management and data lineage tools that work together to give you full context of your data. RecordPoint’s capabilities span six core areas, which are the essential building blocks for solid data governance - data inventory, categorization, records management, privacy, minimization, and migration. -
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Pagefreezer
Pagefreezer Software
Pagefreezer’s software solutions help organizations with the monitoring, capturing, and archiving of online data. By doing this, our tools help address the following critical business challenges. Use your archived online data as official evidence towards a regulatory audit or legal case. Exports from our website archiving service offer all associated metadata, digital signatures, and timestamps that validate the authenticity and integrity of your records, proving that it hasn’t been tampered with. Archive social media and never miss an edited post or deleted comment. Our social media and enterprise collaboration archiving solutions actively monitor and collect your data in real-time to help you keep track of the conversation and capture all activity on your platforms. Get alerted whenever inappropriate content is posted and capture it in defensible quality before it’s deleted. -
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Alteryx
Alteryx
Step into a new era of analytics with the Alteryx AI Platform. Empower your organization with automated data preparation, AI-powered analytics, and approachable machine learning — all with embedded governance and security. Welcome to the future of data-driven decisions for every user, every team, every step of the way. Empower your teams with an easy, intuitive user experience allowing everyone to create analytic solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, and the bottom line. Build an analytics culture with an end-to-end cloud analytics platform and transform data into insights with self-service data prep, machine learning, and AI-generated insights. Reduce risk and ensure your data is fully protected with the latest security standards and certifications. Connect to your data and applications with open API standards. -
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Netwrix Enterprise Auditor
Netwrix
Netwrix Enterprise Auditor automates the collection and analysis of the data you need to answer the most difficult questions you face in the management and security of dozens of critical IT assets, including data, directories, and systems. All organizations, regardless of size, require tools to help them manage and secure the various technology resources that power their businesses. However, no organization has the ability to afford, efficiently operate, or maintain separate point products for every technology they leverage. What they need are solutions that are flexible enough to bend to their unique requirements, while also providing the extensibility to deliver a common set of capabilities across multiple platforms within their IT ecosystem. Netwrix Enterprise Auditor contains over 40 built-in data collection modules covering both on-premises and cloud-based platforms from Operating Systems to Office 365.Starting Price: $10.00/one-time/user -
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The Alfresco Digital Business Platform offers open, secure content services to let you unlock the value from your most important business information. Give users access to their content wherever and however they work with Alfresco’s open, flexible, and highly scalable cloud-native content services platform. Easily integrate and connect with everyday business applications. Find, view, collaborate on, govern, and securely share digital content—and get information to the right person at the right time.
