Introduction to Privacy Code Scanning

About privacy code scanning

Despite rapidly increasing privacy regulation, organizations still lack visibility into personal data flows and lack tools to proactively mitigate risk.

Most organizations rely on manual assessments that dramatically slow down productivity, yield imprecise results, and increase non-compliance risk. Some organizations have invested heavily data discovery tools to build data maps by scanning data in storage, but they still cannot effectively monitor and govern data flows.

We need a new approach that tackles the fundamental source of the problem: the code.

Code is how developers set rules for collecting, using, sharing, and storing data. By leveraging privacy code scanning, privacy teams can continuously monitor and govern how user-facing and backend applications direct data flows in and out of their organization. For product and engineering teams, privacy code scanning speeds up instead of slows down development by providing real-time privacy guidance in dev tools.

As a result, privacy code scanning can bridge the gap between privacy and engineering.

Get access to this paper to understand:

• What privacy code scanning is
• How it compares to existing approaches
• Who can benefit from privacy code scanning
• How to get started with this new approach