Who Accessed Your Sensitive Data in the Last Six Months?

Picture the conversation. A regulator asks for a list of everyone who accessed customer data in the last six months — when, from which system, and what they did with the file. How long would it take you to produce it? And if the honest answer is "we're not sure we can," that is exactly the problem.

Discovering and classifying data is the first step. But sensitive data is not static — people access it, copy it, share it, and download it, every hour, across every system. Without a continuous record, all you have after an incident is a reconstruction pieced together from memory and old emails. That is too late, and it will not survive a regulator's scrutiny.

Real-time monitoring vs. after-the-fact investigation

Most organizations discover a problem only after it has happened. An employee about to leave downloads entire folders. A compromised account reaches a repository it has never touched. An external partner keeps opening a file months after the project closed. Without monitoring, each of these looks like ordinary activity — until someone connects the dots, usually too late.

Real-time monitoring reverses the order: you see the anomaly as it happens, not months afterward.

What Capsule delivers

Capsule monitors user and file activity in real time across all your storage systems — Amazon S3, Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Azure Blob, and network shares (SMB). It detects anomalies and suspicious patterns: access at unusual hours, abnormal download volumes, a user touching a sensitive repository for the first time. And every action — every access, every share, every change — is recorded in a complete, immutable Audit Trail.

That turns the regulator's question from a logistical nightmare into an evidence-backed answer: who, what, when, and from where — at the click of a button.

Why this is no longer just a CISO concern

Privacy regulation has moved accountability upward, toward the executive. "We didn't know" is no longer a defense. A continuous Audit Trail isn't only an investigation tool — it is the proof that your organization knows, at any given moment, what is happening to its sensitive data, and can show it.

The question is not whether someone will ask you for the answer. It's whether you'll have it.

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