Helios

Helios constructs a living operational model of your data and vendor landscape. It delivers continuous, real-time visibility into compliance posture across systems, websites, and third-party integrations, without a manual inventory or static audits.

Why Helios?

Real-time control over a changing perimeter

Modern data environments change faster than compliance programs can track. Helios creates a continuously updated digital twin of your privacy landscape, separating authorized activity from shadow integrations and restoring sovereign control over your digital perimeter.

1. Automated asset discovery
   Continuously observe systems, vendors, and web properties to surface sensitive data and external signals as they appear.

2. Contextual data classification
   Dynamically classify data at rest and in motion against evolving legal, regulatory, and business context.

3. Live enforcement signaling
   Convert discovery and classification into real-time governance signals that drive policy execution and remediation.

4. Persistent processing intelligence
   Maintain an always-current Record of Processing Activities that reflects how data actually flows across your estate.

Enterprise outcomes

Governance that moves at operational speed

Continuous compliance visibility

Maintain an always-on view of sensitive data, vendor behavior, and enforcement status without point-in-time audits.

High-velocity remediation

Filter, segment, and execute bulk governance actions across massive datasets to reduce time-to-resolution by orders of magnitude.

Shared operational truth

Align legal, privacy, and engineering teams around a single, authoritative model of data and vendor risk.

Decision-centric reporting

Translate raw telemetry into intelligible dashboards that enable immediate action without engineering dependency.

Infrastructure for trusted data operations

Real-time scanning & detection

Continuously scan your cloud, SaaS, and on-prem systems to discover sensitive data and track how it flows. No scheduled jobs. No stale snapshots. Just always-on discovery that evolves with your stack.

Advanced classification engine

Automatically classify structured and semi-structured data using smart pattern recognition, NLP, and regulatory tagging. Helios learns from system behavior, not just labels, to improve accuracy over time.

Policy-aware taxonomy

Align discovery with regulatory and business context. Built on Fides, Helios applies Ethyca’s open-source taxonomy to categorize data according to purpose, processing role, and jurisdiction, enabling enforceable policy without additional tagging effort.

Vendor intelligence with Compass

Pre-classified profiles for 2,500+ third-party vendor technologies, including risk types, regulatory mappings, and data category usage, so you can instantly assess vendor compliance impact.

Dynamic lineage & flow mapping

Track how data moves across teams, tools, and geographies. Helios builds real-time lineage graphs so you can understand upstream and downstream dependencies—supporting faster DPIAs, audit readiness, and model input governance.

Configurable, audit-ready reporting

Automatically generate RoPAs, data maps, and DSR evidence logs, enriched with full provenance, consent state, and regulatory tags. Export in real time to satisfy global audit requirements.

Governance taxonomy

Model and enforce data policies using a unified privacy taxonomy, enabling consistent consent, classification, and governance across complex systems.

Consent orchestration

Enforce real-time user preferences with determinism—apply consent signals across systems instantly and revoke access dynamically when permissions change or expire.

Automated DSR

Automate subject rights requests end to end, with intelligent routing, data resolution, and policy-driven response logic. No more manual reviews or audit gaps.

AI policy enforcement

Make privacy rules executable by design in AI systems. Fides translates legal obligations into enforceable policies applied across training, inference, and model governance.

Other resources

Research

How enterprises build scalable, trusted data infrastructure
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News

New product releases, AI regulation, and industry trends
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Whitepaper: Introduction to Helios & automated data inventory

Dive into Helios in our whitepaper. Discover how Ethyca's automated data inventory platform helps enterprises modernize privacy compliance and unlock real-time observability across their systems.
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