This is the reality of banking, financial services, and fintech today: sensitive data piles up faster than any team can track, and remediation still depends on someone working through a queue that never clears.
“I don't have to worry about what data might be where. I know exactly what data elements exist where.”
Varonis is the toughest comparison in financial services, and worth taking seriously. But Varonis has announced end-of-life for its self-hosted, on-premises product, moving remaining non-SaaS customers to its SaaS platform by 2027. If your compliance program depends on air-gapped deployment, that option is disappearing from their roadmap. Teleskope runs fully air-gapped today, with zero data ever leaving your environment, and we have no plans to sunset it. Varonis's classification is also still largely regex and dictionary-based, prone to false positives, and its remediation is reactive. Teleskope classifies on business context and remediates natively and continuously.
Yes. Teleskope is one of the only platforms in this category still offering a fully air-gapped deployment, with no data ever leaving your environment, for institutions whose policies or examiners require it. Alloy, which handles data for hundreds of financial institutions, runs Teleskope self-hosted to meet its own data residency and third-party risk requirements, with our engineering team applying their specific controls during rollout.
Teleskope ingests the retention and access policies you already have, GLBA Safeguards, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, PCI-DSS, SOX, FFIEC, BSA/AML and KYC recordkeeping, FINRA, or CFPB, and enforces them automatically. Every classification and remediation action is logged: what was found, why it was flagged, what was done, and under which policy, the evidence your examiners ask for.
No. Teleskope enforces the retention schedule you define, it doesn't delete on its own judgment. Data still inside its GLBA, FFIEC, or SOX retention window is left alone. Data that has cleared it moves to quarantine first, with a recovery window, before permanent deletion. Nothing is deleted without a policy that authorizes it.
This is where pattern-matching tools tend to fail. Teleskope's classification engine understands business context and document type, not just field names, so it works in customized Salesforce environments, homegrown loan origination systems, and non-standard database architectures where signature-based tools miss what matters.
Every action is reversible and logged. If access is revoked or a file is quarantined incorrectly, it can be restored immediately, and the audit trail shows exactly what happened, why, and under which policy, the same standard examiners expect for any automated decision.
