At present, sensitive & confidential data exists in unstructured and structured data formats across production and non-production environments. Sensitive data discovery software provides automated and dependable content analysis. The software also tracks information across the network, including NAS and SAN storage, file shares, and SharePoints sites. Sensitive data discovery tools reduce the risk from manual and tedious processes by automatically tagging and classifying indirect, direct, and sensitive identifiers for efficient human inspection. Sensitive data discovery distinguishes data that is the most at risk to exposure, such as personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI).