HeliosReal-time intelligence for your data
Helios continuously discovers, classifies, and contextualizes sensitive data across your stack, giving you live, reliable metadata to power AI governance, privacy controls, and confident data use at scale.
Why Helios?
Maximize your
data intelligence
Helios goes beyond traditional catalogs. It automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data, aligns it to policy, and builds a continuously updated metadata layer that reflects how your systems actually work, reflected as a data map, system inventory and data catalog. So governance isn’t just observable, it’s actionable.
From insight to enforcement
Outcomes Helios delivers
across the enterprise
Continuous audit-readiness
Live, reliable data intelligence for all regulations
Helios maintains a real-time, verified record of sensitive data - what it is, where it lives, and how it flows. It replaces static inventories with continuously updated visibility mapped to global regulations. The result: faster audits, less manual work, and a defensible compliance posture across systems.
Governance that enforces itself
Native integrations that apply policy where data lives
Helios embeds policy enforcement directly into your data stack. With built-in connectors to major systems, privacy rules are applied automatically where data is stored and used, turning documentation into live execution.
One source of truth for legal & engineering
Collaborative context across compliance, legal, and data teams
Helios aligns how sensitive data is defined and managed across teams. It bridges legal definitions with engineering metadata, removing ambiguity, reducing handoffs, and enabling faster, more consistent governance decisions across the business.
Compliant AI starts with context
Only safe, consented data reaches your models
Helios governs model inputs using real-time consent, purpose, and policy context. Whether for training, personalization, or analytics, it ensures your data is permissioned, compliant, and ready for responsible AI use, by design.
Features
Built for complexity,
ready for scale
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
