Data Governance

Data governance is knowing where your sensitive data lives, who can access it, and how it's being shared — and enforcing policies to keep it from leaking. Most small and mid-sized businesses underestimate how much regulated data they actually have: customer Social Security numbers in HR files, credit card details in finance spreadsheets, health information in benefits records, signed contracts on shared drives. A single mishandled export can trigger a regulatory fine, a breach notification, or a lost customer. Data governance gives you visibility and automated controls before something goes wrong.

Coro recognizes the common regulated data types out of the box: Personally Identifiable Information (PII like SSN, driver's license, passport), Protected Health Information (PHI), payment card data (credit card numbers, CVVs, bank account numbers), and financial records. It also discovers signed legal documents, source code, intellectual property, and you can define custom patterns for your industry — like patient ID formats, customer account numbers, or any other data unique to your business. Scans run continuously across endpoints, email, and cloud storage, with results in one dashboard.

Depends on the policy you've configured. Coro can simply audit (log the event for review), warn the user with an in-app prompt before they proceed, block the action entirely, or quarantine the email or upload for admin review. Policies can be different per channel — for example, warn on email, block on USB, audit on personal cloud storage uploads. The key is graduated response: legitimate business operations don't get blocked, but high-risk patterns (mass exports, unusual recipients, after-hours sharing of regulated data) do.

Yes, it's one of the main reasons clients adopt it. Coro includes pre-built policy templates for HIPAA (healthcare), PCI-DSS (payment card data), GDPR (EU data privacy), and other major frameworks — so you start with industry-standard controls rather than building rules from scratch. The reporting side generates compliance-ready exports showing where regulated data exists, who has access, what's encrypted, and what's been shared externally. This is the documentation auditors and regulators ask for, packaged in a few clicks.

Both. Coro Data Governance scans endpoints (Windows, macOS, Linux desktops and laptops, plus servers), cloud storage (SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive), email (Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace inbox and sent items), and the integrated cloud apps Coro already monitors. Discovery is continuous — new files are scanned as they're created, and existing data is rescanned on a configurable schedule. You see everything in one dashboard, regardless of where the data lives.