Symmetry Systems Now Automates Data Security Classification for Global Compliance

On January 30, 2026, Symmetry Systems updated its DataGuard platform with an AI-powered classification engine. The release adds a unified taxonomy with more than 400 sensitive-data identifiers. It covers PII, PHI, PCI, financial records, credentials, and intellectual property. The taxonomy also lists over 500 semantic types, including contracts, board materials, healthcare records, and legal filings. It maps to GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and emerging AI governance frameworks. The company plans to open-source the taxonomy and include the Fides privacy-by-code framework and benchmark datasets. Governance details will follow in the coming weeks.

Bring-Your-Own-AI (BYOAI) support lets customers run classification on their own infrastructure. Supported options include Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, or private GPUs. This enables data sovereignty and operation in airgapped environments. Classification runs consistently across SaaS apps, data lakes, warehouses, and AI pipelines with no cloud dependency.

The taxonomy enables policy-as-code translation. It auto-generates permissions for Databricks Unity Catalog, OPA policies in Kubernetes, AWS IAM, and Snowflake access controls. This reduces friction from vendor-specific schemes and helps secure AI-driven workflows.

Why It Matters

• Data security engineers can deploy AI classification on-premises or in airgapped sites using BYOAI on private GPUs to preserve data sovereignty and meet location requirements.
• DSPM administrators can auto-generate policy-as-code for Databricks Unity Catalog, Snowflake, and Kubernetes OPA from the standardized taxonomy, cutting manual mapping work.
• Compliance teams get built-in mappings to GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS to automate reporting and reduce manual translations between vendor schemes.
• Security architects can use the planned open-source benchmarks and Fides integration to validate, tune, and reproduce classification accuracy across environments.