Getting Started with Discover

Immuta can scan your data sources and apply relevant tags when data is recognized. This eliminates a manual tagging process for your data, saving you time and providing standard taxonomy across all your data sources.

Requirements

• Registered Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, or Starburst (Trino) data sources

• Immuta permission GOVERNANCE

Implement SDD

Sensitive data discovery (SDD) is an Immuta Discover feature that identifies your data sources and applies relevant tags when data is recognized. This eliminates a manual tagging process for your data, saving you time and providing standard taxonomy across all your data sources.

To learn more, see the Data discovery page.

Enable sensitive data discovery

Enable sensitive data discovery on your tenant. Opt to have SDD run automatically for new data sources by setting a global framework, or run SDD granularly by applying data sources to specific frameworks.

Configure SDD for your data

For additional control, create your own identifiers to recognize the data that matters to you. Add these identifiers to new frameworks and specify the data sources that need this framework. This fine-level control creates automatic tagging that is relevant and accurate to your data, requiring fewer manual adjustments to the resulting tags.

1. Customize SDD for your data:

   1. Create identifiers

   2. Create a framework

2. Assign your framework to specific data sources

Adjust Discovered tags

If you have any tags that are applied to your data sources by SDD that you don't want, you can easily disable these tags for each data source. This ensures that they will not be applied to the data source again if identification is re-run.

1. Verify tags
2. Disable Discovered tags

Reference pages:

Immuta comes with a default framework containing built-in Discovered tags and built-in identifiers. These identifiers and tags can be used in your own frameworks.

1. Built-in Discovered tags
2. Built-in identifiers

Implement classification

Classification is an Immuta Discover feature that categorizes your data based on the content and the associated risk the data poses. This increases your understanding of your data and allows you to make faster decisions about it.

Configure classification for your data

To create or manage a framework using the Immuta API, see the Frameworks API reference page.

Adjust classification tags

If you have any tags that are applied to your data sources by classification that you don't want, you can easily disable these tags for each data source. This ensures that they will not be applied to the data source again when classification is re-run.

1. Assess your data source tags.
2. Tune your data dictionaries.