One platform. Every environment where your data lives.

Yes. The air-gapped deployment model is designed for exactly this. Teleskope runs entirely on your infrastructure with no outbound data transfer and no phone home required. Everything happens inside your perimeter.

In single-tenant SaaS, your Teleskope instance runs on dedicated infrastructure — dedicated compute, dedicated storage, dedicated classification pipeline. No shared resources with other customers. In multi-tenant SaaS, infrastructure is shared but logically separated. Both are fully managed by Teleskope. The choice depends on your data residency requirements and operational preferences.

Most customers have complete visibility into their data environment within days of connecting their first environments — not weeks or months. The crawl phase is fast because Teleskope doesn't require you to define what's sensitive before it starts scanning. It classifies as it goes, using its understanding of your environment to build the picture continuously. The first automated remediations typically run within the first two weeks, once policies are configured.

No. Teleskope connects via native APIs and integrations — no agents installed, no infrastructure to manage. For self-hosted or air-gapped deployments, Teleskope runs within your own infrastructure without requiring external connectivity.

Yes — and this is one of the areas where Teleskope is most differentiated. Most classification tools rely on known schema structures and standard field names. Teleskope's classification engine understands data in context, which means it works in heavily customized environments where standard tools fail. If your Salesforce has been modified extensively, or your CRM was built in-house, Teleskope builds a model of your specific environment rather than assuming it matches a template.

Teleskope offers self-hosted deployment options that keep all processing and results within your own infrastructure. For organizations with strict data residency requirements — specific regions, specific jurisdictions — the self-hosted model ensures data never crosses boundaries you haven't approved.

The framework describes phases, not timelines — because every environment is different. A cloud-native company with standard SaaS tools moves through the phases faster than a heavily regulated institution with custom infrastructure. What's consistent is the sequence: complete visibility first, then high-confidence automation, then full governed remediation. You don't start automating until you trust what the platform is finding. You don't expand automation until you trust how it's acting. The pace is yours to set.

Teleskope is designed to complement existing security infrastructure, not replace it. For Microsoft E5 customers, Teleskope's classification feeds accurate MIP labels into Purview, improving Purview's enforcement accuracy and dramatically reducing false positives. For DLP tools, Teleskope provides better-classified data that makes DLP policies more precise. For IAM tools, Teleskope provides evidence of actual data usage that IAM systems don't track — which is what makes evidence-based access removal possible.

Every file. Teleskope does not use sampling-based classification. Every file in every connected environment is scanned. Sampling introduces false negative risk — the exposure you miss is the exposure that matters most.

Every automated action is reversible and logged. Before automation runs at scale, you define the guardrails — what is automated, what requires human confirmation, what is never automated. If a policy misclassifies something, you can review and reverse the action through the dashboard. The crawl/walk/run deployment model exists specifically to prevent misclassifications at scale by validating policy behavior in detection mode before remediation is enabled.

Yes. Teleskope's API supports integration with existing security and IT infrastructure. Customers currently use the API to connect Teleskope to automation platforms like Tines, identity management tools, and downstream enforcement systems like SASE. If you have a non-standard or homegrown system, contact us — we support custom connector builds.

For most customers, yes — Teleskope replaces both. It performs continuous data discovery and classification (DSPM) and enforces remediation natively (DLP), without routing findings to a separate tool. For Microsoft E5 customers, Teleskope accelerates Purview rather than replacing it — accurate MIP labels from Teleskope feed into Purview's enforcement engine, making the existing investment perform as intended.

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, CCPA, and EU AI Act. Teleskope's audit trail and automated evidence generation are designed to satisfy both security and compliance reporting requirements without manual evidence gathering.