Software is the primary source of all privacy risk because software controls how personal data is collected, used, shared, and stored. In today’s tech-driven world where most companies employ software engineers, the software moving personal data through websites, user-facing applications, and backend systems is typically developed internally.

This means the logic behind a company’s data flows often lives entirely in their software’s codebase. By scanning that codebase, a complete and real-time data map can be generated that identifies privacy risks even before sensitive data is collected, stored, shared, or used improperly.