Concentric AI’s New Feature Expands Sensitive Data Discovery for Documents with Consistent Visual Signatures

Unique Visual-Signature Technology Enables Concentric AI to Discover Sensitive Data in Documents That Traditional OCR Can’t Reliably Process

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Concentric AI, a leading provider of AI and data security governance solutions, today announced an industry-first vision model feature in the Concentric AI Semantic Intelligence™ platform that delivers an efficient and reliable way to detect sensitive documents that have unique visual signatures, including passports and driver licenses.

While organizations are obligated to protect all the sensitive data in their possession, they are often challenged with discovering data that is sprawled across their environments in various formats. Concentric AI recognizes that the visual information in a data record may provide more signal than text. Available today, the feature allows Concentric AI to analyze and understand the content of an image, such as the biographic (or photo) page of a passport from any country or a driver license from any state in the U.S., based on its visually consistent characteristics—even if the contents are blurred—in order to identify document type.

“Many sensitive documents carry a distinct visual identity,” said Dr. Madhu Shashanka, Co-Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Concentric AI. “Not taking advantage of these visual cues leaves valuable signals untapped and limits the capability to discover and protect sensitive data. As a leader in the field, Concentric AI is continuously advancing innovative approaches to data security challenges and leveraging signals which traditional approaches to discovery completely ignore, going beyond discovery of textual data to discover all sensitive information, no matter the format.”

Concentric AI’s new feature provides a more cost-effective and reliable alternative to the limitations of optical character recognition (OCR), which utilizes considerable computing resources because it requires processing every pixel in an image to detect and identify characters into machine-readable text. In addition, OCR may struggle to accurately detect information in low-quality images, while threat actors could potentially use AI to extract enough information from those same images for malicious purposes.

Even documents that are specific to an organization can exhibit highly characteristic visual signatures. This new feature will enable Concentric AI partners to assist their customers in building dedicated models for effectively discovering sensitive data based on visually consistent characteristics in their unique environments.

Availability and Pricing

Concentric AI’s new capabilities are now available. For more information, see https://concentric.ai/product-demo/.

About Concentric AI

Concentric AI enables organizations to accelerate safe AI adoption through its unified AI and data security governance platform. Powered by the Semantic Intelligence Engine’s patented language models, the platform discovers, governs, and protects business-critical and compliance-sensitive data at rest, in motion, and used by AI through a consistent policy framework. For more information, visit https://www.concentric.ai.

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