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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.

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Discover sensitive data automatically
Each element is classified against a regulatory ontology, mapping to applicable laws and consent states, to know what policies apply, and where.
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Map data to regulatory obligations
Each data element is classified and linked to relevant laws, so you know exactly what rules apply and where enforcement is required.
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Enforce rules in real time
Helios turns classifications into live enforcement signals, powering consent checks, data minimization, retention triggers, and access controls across your stack.
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Power compliance across your stack
Helios creates a living metadata layer, continuously feeding accurate, policy-aligned context to every system, vendor, and AI model in your stack.

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.

Mozilla
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Mozilla builds trusted, open-source technologies like Firefox used by hundreds of millions worldwide. Its mission-driven products and research shape a safer, more transparent internet.
Internet Software
SurveyMonkey
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SurveyMonkey empowers organizations to collect and act on feedback at scale, with over 20 million active users worldwide. From customer experience to employee engagement, its tools help decision-makers capture real-time insight, drive smarter outcomes, and build more responsive businesses.
Internet Software
Lush
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Lush Cosmetics is a global leader in handmade, ethically sourced cosmetics, operating over 900 stores across 50 countries. Renowned for its activism-driven brand, Lush fuses product innovation with purpose—advocating for sustainability, animal welfare, and digital ethics. Its commitment to freshness and ingredient traceability has redefined expectations in the beauty industry, while its retail experience is rooted in community, not convention.
Cosmetics
The New York Times
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The New York Times delivers deeply reported, award-winning journalism to over 10 million subscribers globally. Its newsroom sets the standard for investigative rigor and public accountability in a rapidly changing media landscape.
Publishing
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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.

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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