Manually finding, classifying, and protecting files across your ecosystem is an impossible task. This is where automated content classification becomes a game-changer, helping you save time, reduce risk, and make your data work for you.
What Is Content Classification?
At its core, content classification is the engine that identifies and categorizes your data. Instead of relying on users to tag files manually, you can set up policies to automatically find specific types of content, like PII, financial records, or internal-only documents.
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For a high-level overview, check out the Content Classification Help Desk article.
Start with Sensitive Content
The most common and critical starting point is identifying sensitive data. Egnyte's Secure & Govern can automatically scan your content for built-in identifiers like social security numbers, credit card numbers, and other forms of PII/PHI. Finding this data is the first step to protecting it.
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Watch this Quick Tip video on Sensitive Content Classification.
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For a deeper dive, take the Managing Sensitive Content course on Egnyte University.
Go Further with AI-Driven Trainable Classifiers
But what about content that's unique to your business? Maybe you need to identify "Project Proposals," "Legal Contracts," or "Engineering Specs" that don't contain standard PII.
That's where Trainable Classifiers come in. You can train Egnyte's AI to recognize your organization's specific document types by feeding it positive and negative examples. Once trained, it can automatically find and apply metadata tags to those files, powering everything from retention policies to workflows.
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Read the Help Desk article on AI-Driven Trainable Classifiers.
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See it in action in this Quick Tip: Trainable Classifiers video.