Concentric AI unveils new feature for sensitive data discovery for documents

Concentric AI, a leading provider of AI and data security governance solutions, is adding a new 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.

Concentric AI recognizes that the visual information in a data record may provide more signal than text, according to the company. Available now, 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, the company said.

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.

Concentric AI’s new capabilities are now available.

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