Introduction to Helios: Automated data inventory
Dive into Helios, the automated data inventory platform helping enterprises modernize privacy compliance and unlock real-time observability across their systems.

Helios: Automated data inventory for enterprise privacy compliance
Modern enterprises face mounting pressure to maintain accurate, up-to-date records of how personal data is collected, stored, and processed across their systems. In this whitepaper, we introduce Helios, Ethyca’s real-time data inventory platform that replaces outdated, manual RoPA processes with automated monitoring, advanced classification, and seamless reporting.
You’ll learn how Helios integrates directly into your existing infrastructure to discover third-party vendors, scan cloud environments, and classify data using contextual and content-aware techniques. The platform also supports flexible reporting, system ownership delegation, and developer-friendly workflows that embed privacy into the software development lifecycle.
Whether you’re managing compliance for a global enterprise or modernizing legacy data governance workflows, this whitepaper offers a clear path to scalable, proactive privacy operations.
Michael Brown
Michael leads product development for Ethyca’s privacy infrastructure, including Helios and the Fides open-source platform. With a background in systems architecture and developer experience, he focuses on building tools that bring real-time observability and automation to enterprise privacy operations. His work bridges the gap between compliance and engineering, enabling teams to manage data responsibly without slowing down innovation.
CEO & Founder, EthycaCillian Kieran
As founder of Ethyca, Cillian is pioneering automated approaches to data privacy and governance. His work with global enterprises like Heineken, Sony, and Dell has shaped Ethyca's mission to make privacy engineering accessible and scalable. Under his leadership, Ethyca has developed breakthrough open-source privacy tools that help organizations automate compliance and build user trust programmatically.
Discover how leading enterprises are using Helios to automate data inventory, streamline RoPA reporting, and embed privacy into engineering workflows. This whitepaper offers a practical guide to modernizing your compliance infrastructure with real-time observability and advanced data classification.
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Congratulations are in order it seems - you're officially part of the 0.01% who don't just take things at face value.
And since you're here, yes, we take privacy seriously too.
Stay curious, stay private.
– Ethyca
Congratulations are in order it seems - you're officially part of the 0.01% who don't just take things at face value.
And since you're here, yes, we take privacy seriously too.
Stay curious, stay private.
– Ethyca
Congratulations are in order it seems - you're officially part of the 0.01% who don't just take things at face value.
And since you're here, yes, we take privacy seriously too.
Stay curious, stay private.
– Ethyca