Data Privacy & GRC
Locate, identify, protect, and manage Personal Data and other sensitive content to comply with data privacy, data minimization and other Governance, Risk & Compliance obligations.

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Data Privacy
With evolving data privacy regulations (like GDPR, CCPA and others), global enterprises must ensure that personal and sensitive information is properly governed, managed, and protected. Compliance teams face mounting pressure to meet these standards while lacking tools to effectively monitor and enforce data privacy measures across all data repositories.
Valora empowers your organization to confidently address data privacy, minimization, least privilege, and governance requirements with automated classification, tagging, and handling of sensitive or high-profile data. By providing granular insights into where sensitive data resides and applying relevant access controls, Valora enables compliance teams to ensure that privacy mandates are met across the organization.
Identifying Personal Data
During its scan and full text content analysis, PowerHouse searches for and identifies 3 levels of Personal Data fields:
- Personal Data Present – indicates when a file contains personal data: Yes / No
- Personal Data Type – identifies which type of personal data it contains: PII, PHI, or PCI
- Personal Data Detail – detailed Personal Data type indicator, for example:
- PII: DOB, SSN, home address, etc.
- PHI: medical information, doctor’s note, return-to-work form, etc.
- PCI: account number, payroll/banking information, etc.


Access Restriction & AutoRedaction
Valora restricts access within BlackCat, and the source repository, based on an individual user’s permissions or access rights, gating the content each BlackCat user can see. Redaction options are customized per repository, document type, specific content present, or user and include:
- Full restricted access: the document is not visible at all to that user.
- Restricted access: user sees that the document exists, but does not have access to the document, contents or preview image.
- Redacted access: user sees the document and content, but sensitive content within the document and preview image is redacted.
Automate Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs)
Valora offers on-demand Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) search and reporting, as well as automated fulfillment workflow capabilities, gathering all files with information about the data subject across multiple repositories and systems. It flags content that should be included and should not be included in responding to the DSAR request. For example, files that are exempt from deletion or disclosure: those under an active litigation hold, those containing the personal data of others, or other business confidential data.


Sensitivity Classes & Risk Scoring
Sensitive content isn’t always Personal Data. Corporate Sensitive content might include information about strategic plans for an acquisition or layoff, or internal business processes or techniques that would be considered trade secrets.
Valora assigns and applies custom “risk scores” to content based on a custom calculation of each file. High-risk data can be moved, redacted, and/or locked down from user access. Low risk data can be kept “as is, where is.”
Benefits of using Valora for Data Privacy, Minimization, & GRC

Enhanced Data Privacy
Valora’s solutions minimizes human error in managing sensitive data, enhancing privacy by accurately locating, identifying, and handling sensitive information. By pinpointing this data, organizations more effectively enforce role-based access controls and data masking or anonymization, ensuring only authorized users can access sensitive information.
Risk Management & Mitigation
AutoClassification reduces exposure to data breaches by identifying sensitive data and applying appropriate security measures to high-risk information. By assigning risk scores to data assets, PowerHouse enables organizations to prioritize resources for securing the most vulnerable data. Valora enhances proactive data loss prevention (DLP) by integrating with DLP solutions, preventing unauthorized access or sharing of sensitive information based on data type, contents, and location.
Improved Data Governance
AutoClassification ensures consistent data classification according to set standards, improving data governance and reducing variability. By accurately classifying data, Valora enhances data quality and provides valuable insights, supporting better decision-making. Our solutions also help enforce retention and disposal policies, ensuring data is kept only as long as needed, minimizing data bloat and reducing privacy risks.
Improved Compliance with Regulatory Requirements
Enable accurate and consistent classification of records based on content, which is vital for meeting regulatory and legal requirements in industries governed by standards like HIPAA, GxP, SOX, and GDPR. AutoClassification ensures consistent enforcement of records management policies, reducing the risk of non-compliance from manual errors.
Operational Efficiency
Valora delivers significant cost and time savings by eliminating the need for manual data classification, freeing resources for strategic initiatives. Our platform scales seamlessly with growing data volumes, maintaining accuracy and comprehensive coverage. AutoClassification simplifies data management, making it easier to organize, retrieve, and manage information efficiently across departments.
Integration with Other Tools
Valora can help support your broader GRC efforts by integrating with governance, risk, and compliance platforms to create a unified approach to data privacy and regulatory adherence. Valora can also help enhance security solutions by integrating with data loss prevention (DLP), encryption, AI, and other security tools to create a holistic, content-based data protection strategy.
Data Privacy & GRC FAQ
Yes. While Valora automatically tags for standardized personal data elements (PII, PHI, PCI), clients may also customize their sensitive data designations to align with their content, business objectives or policies.
Example customizations may include: Employee ID, work or building location, Intellectual Property (IP), or information about mergers and acquisitions.
One of the key benefits is the ability to proactively flag or quarantine documents containing unblinding data. Integrated with workflows, Valora alerts relevant teams to potential risks, ensuring that unblinded data is only accessible to authorized personnel. Additionally, Valora organizes and tags sensitive information, enabling seamless segregation of unblinded and blinded data. This makes it easier to maintain proper access controls and ensures data is handled in compliance with regulatory requirements.
Valora integrates with and can be configured to send data to most Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Data Privacy platforms, including Varonis and OneTrust, among others.
As data is created, modified, or shared, it is AutoClassified by Valora to identify the document type and flagged as containing important, sensitive or personal information. Sending this information directly to a DLP informs the system of the content type, location and sensitivity class of each document and ensures policies to enforce encryption, access controls, or exfiltration blocking are implemented without delay and that sensitive data remains secure across its lifecycle.
By systematically classifying data and mapping labels and content to DLP systems, organizations can demonstrate consistent security practices and provide detailed audit trails during assessments.
Yes. To distinguish whether personal data belongs to an employee (past or present) or a customer, Valora integrates with and pulls data from third-party systems or information sources (what we call guidance data) to inform Valora on who’s who.
In determining whether personal data belongs to an employee, Valora integrates with an organization’s HR system, determining active and inactive employees, flagging the respective files encountered as belonging to the relevant employee.
In determining whether personal data belongs to a customer, Valora integrates with various CRMs or a customer list to determine whether the individual (or entity) is an active or former customer. Valora then flags the respective files as belonging to the relevant customer.
Yes. Valora’s flexible deployment allows for cloud and/or on-prem hosting options. A single organization’s system can be set-up in multiple environments and across multiple geographic locations. This is important for international organizations where data residency requirements dictate that data must be housed within certain jurisdictions.
Multiple systems can live independently, or roll-up into a single view to allow global Information Governance teams to manage content without it leaving its jurisdiction.