>Harvest.ai’s flagship, patent-pending AI product is called MACIE Analytics. It uses AI to monitor how a customer’s intellectual property is being accessed in real-time, assessing who is looking at, copying or moving particular documents, and where they are when they’re doing this, in order to identify suspicious patterns of behavior and flag potential data breaches before they’ve taken place. It bills the service as a way to combat the risk of insider attacks.

did they get the idea after seeing what happens at NSA with contractors/whoever downloading data to wherever?

Data insight is targeted at more user oriented unstructured content repositories (CIFS, NFS, SharePoint, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Box), but the fundamentals are very similar: content classifiaction, data profiling, risk scoring, access pattern anomaly detection, access control remediation.

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