Foundations of Data Security: Classification with Wiz

As organizations embrace cloud-first strategies, understanding where sensitive data lives—and how to classify and protect it—is critical to reducing risk and ensuring compliance.

This white paper offers a deep dive into how Wiz discovers, analyzes, and classifies sensitive data across cloud and DBaaS environments. Built for security teams, it unpacks the methodology behind Wiz’s classification engine so you can trust, tune, and act on the results with confidence.

Inside, you’ll learn how Wiz:

• Performs full cloud and data asset discovery

• Applies tiered classification logic tailored to data structure and context

• Introduces AI-driven Novel Classifiers to surface business-specific sensitivity

• Enriches classification results with ownership, compliance, and risk context

• Supports actionable workflows through its 5R data protection framework

Download the white paper to understand the classification engine behind Wiz’s data security platform—and how it helps your team take control of sensitive data at scale.