Key Takeaways
Every enterprise feeding data to AI agents faces the same risk: if you don’t know where your sensitive data lives, you can’t trust what your agents are doing with it. That’s the real challenge — not whether sensitive data exists in your environment, but whether you can find and govern it at the speed AI demands.
As enterprises move data onto Data 360 to satisfy data protection and privacy regulations, getting clear, scalable visibility becomes essential. With Shield: Data Detect for Data 360 now generally available, you get the unified, scalable solution you need to tailor security to your compliance needs.
Your data is only as secure as your ability to see inside it. Shield: Data Detect gives you immediate, deep visibility into your exposure within Data 360:
- Unified governance: Put your entire governance strategy on one control plane, so you can move seamlessly between tracking sensitive data in your core Salesforce environment and Data 360.
- Intelligent detection at scale: Go beyond basic PII scanning with built-in intelligence through 21 predefined sensitive data categories, plus the flexibility to add up to 10 custom patterns. Scan up to 100 Data Lake Objects (DLOs) per run across standard text fields, using precise point-in-time snapshots of your data.
From discovery to defense: How to secure your enterprise and empower AI
Your scan results should translate directly into clear, auditable protection. Shield: Data Detect gives you the exact findings you need to make confident decisions, keeping your business compliant today while preparing you for tomorrow.
- Prepare your data for agents: Unmanaged data exposure puts your AI initiatives at risk. Sensitive data discovery on Data 360 is your critical pre-agent step. It lets you identify sensitive records before they reach your generative AI models, helping you avoid expensive compliance issues and build AI initiatives on trusted data.
- Inform your security controls: One-size-fits-all security policies don’t hold up at enterprise scale. Your Shield: Data Detect results give you the exact details needed to set granular controls:
- Classification: Understand your data to guide advanced protection tools, such as data masking and active monitoring.
- Audit readiness: Run regular scans to build an auditable record of where sensitive data resides, giving you immediate proof of compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other key standards.
Actionable intelligence built on enterprise-grade architecture
Your results dashboard delivers easy-to-read reports, so you can quickly adjust your security setup. You can view aggregate data, check status indicators for all scanned DLOs, and query findings directly.
- Clean-room isolation: Meet strict regulatory requirements like HIPAA and FINRA with confidence, as your data is processed in an isolated, tenant-specific ‘clean room’ environment, so sensitive scans never cross tenant boundaries.
- Zero system lag: Scans run fully asynchronously and scale dynamically to handle high-volume requests, without blocking your workflows or slowing down day-to-day operations.
- Flexible export options: Need deeper analysis or custom compliance reports? Export results using SOQL, or download up to 10 million results as a .csv file per job session.
- Transparent resource tracking: You maintain full visibility into your operations because Shield: Data Detect scans in Data 360 consume credits that you can monitor directly in your Digital Wallet.
By bringing sensitive data discovery into Data 360, you get the strong, practical foundation you need to protect your business and innovate with confidence. To learn more about Shield: Data Detect, check out the following resources:
