Detect more sensitive data. Interrupt your business less. And prove it.
Data-loss prevention has a credibility problem. Most tools are tuned to catch something — and in doing so, they flag everything: invoice numbers become "credit cards," asset tags become "SSNs," and every routine document turns into an alert your team learns to ignore. Accuracy claims get rounded up. Real-world performance quietly falls short.
Our answer to both problems at once:
Onyx DPT 2.0 is built to catch more of what matters — and stop crying wolf on what doesn't. Today we're rolling out a ground-up upgrade to the Onyx detection engine. Here's what's new.
Sharper detection across more of what's sensitive
Onyx DPT 2.0 significantly improves how accurately we identify sensitive information — from national IDs, payment-card and financial account data, and credentials and secrets, to medical identifiers, biometric references, contact details, addresses, and personal names. More categories, caught more reliably, across the messy reality of real business documents.
Precision that respects your business
Detection is only half the job. Not over-flagging benign data is the other half — and it's where most tools fail. Onyx DPT 2.0 validates candidates against how sensitive data actually looks before it ever raises a flag, so the things that merely resemble sensitive data — order numbers, tracking codes, part numbers, log identifiers — are recognized for what they are and left alone. The result: dramatically fewer false positives, and far less friction for the people doing legitimate work.
Confidentiality, handled intelligently
Not everything that's confidential is personal data. A client name or a company name isn't PII — but a privileged legal agreement or an internal financial plan absolutely is sensitive. Onyx DPT 2.0 separates these concerns: it protects personal data as PII, and handles business and client confidentiality through document-level classification — recognizing legal, financial, and strategic materials on their own terms, without mislabeling public information as private.
Validated honestly — and verifiably
This is the part we're proudest of. We don't publish inflated accuracy numbers, and we don't grade ourselves on data our system has already seen. Onyx DPT 2.0 is measured against independent, third-party benchmarks the engine was never trained or tuned on — the same discipline a rigorous security team would demand. We report the honest number, including where we're strong and where detection is genuinely hard.
Available now
Onyx DPT 2.0 is live for all customers, with no changes required on your side. Existing integrations continue to work unchanged — you simply get a more accurate, more precise engine underneath.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Onyx DPT 2.0?
Onyx DPT 2.0 is a ground-up upgrade to DataFence's Onyx detection engine. It improves how accurately sensitive data is identified across more categories while dramatically reducing false positives on benign data that merely resembles sensitive information.
Do I need to change anything to use Onyx DPT 2.0?
No. Onyx DPT 2.0 is live for all customers with no changes required. Existing integrations continue to work unchanged — you simply get a more accurate, more precise engine underneath.
How does Onyx DPT 2.0 reduce false positives?
It validates candidates against how sensitive data actually looks before raising a flag. Data that merely resembles sensitive information — order numbers, tracking codes, part numbers, log identifiers — is recognized for what it is and left alone, reducing friction for people doing legitimate work.
How is business and client confidentiality handled?
Onyx DPT 2.0 separates personal data from business confidentiality. It protects personal data as PII, and handles business and client confidentiality through document-level classification — recognizing legal, financial, and strategic materials on their own terms without mislabeling public information as private.
How is Onyx DPT 2.0's accuracy validated?
Onyx DPT 2.0 is measured against independent, third-party benchmarks the engine was never trained or tuned on. DataFence reports the honest result, including where detection is strong and where it is genuinely hard.
See Onyx DPT 2.0 in action.
Schedule a demo to watch the engine detect and redact sensitive data in real time — on the documents and workflows that matter to your team, with the precision that keeps routine business data flowing.
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About DataFence: DataFence is the leading data loss prevention solution and a real-time analytics platform built for data security. Our platform delivers real-time visibility and enforcement at the browser — the point where employees access AI tools, cloud apps, and sensitive data — stopping data exfiltration, surfacing shadow IT, and proving compliance before a breach happens.