Empower your company with robust data security

Data defense for business resilience

Cognizant offers comprehensive data protection and privacy services—safeguarding sensitive information, ensuring compliance and enhancing resilience through advanced data discovery, protection and monitoring solutions. Achieve responsible data handling and global regulatory compliance with our holistic approach and platform-based services.

<h3>Secure your data, safeguard your reputation</h3> <h5>Data breaches can cause severe financial and reputational damage. Cognizant’s data protection and privacy solutions offer end-to-end security for structured, unstructured and semi-structured data—at rest, in transit and in use.</h5> <h5>Our expert services span advisory, transformation and operations, ensuring continuous protection and compliance. We stay ahead of emerging threats with deep expertise in:</h5> <ul> <li>Post-quantum cryptography (PQC)</li> <li>Generative and agentic AI</li> <li>Homomorphic encryption</li> <li>Confidential computing</li> </ul> <h5>We protect your data—wherever it goes.</h5>

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<h3>Offerings</h3>

Data discovery and classification

Discover and define data profile

Effective data security starts with visibility. Cognizant’s data discovery and classification services identify and profile enterprise data assets—structured and unstructured—ensuring accurate labeling and enhanced visibility. By uncovering sensitive information across your environment, we help implement strong protection measures, reduce risk and support compliance with industry regulations. Safeguard your critical data with confidence.

Comprehensive data protection

Combat data sprawl securely

As data sprawl grows, maintaining a data-centric, zero-trust security posture and regulatory compliance becomes increasingly complex. Cognizant’s comprehensive data protection services help organizations implement effective policies to secure sensitive information across environments.

Our key offerings include:

Data obfuscation (via Cognizant’s proprietary Data Obscure® or other platforms)
Static and dynamic data masking
Encryption and key management
Information rights management
PKI and certificate management on data loss prevention, crypto agility and PQC readiness

Data governance and monitoring

Boost data governance with oversight

Cognizant's data governance services ensure secure lifecycle management of sensitive data through continuous monitoring and policy enforcement. Our offerings include:

Data security posture management
Database activity monitoring
Consumer data request handling (DSARs)
Compliance assessments (PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA and more)

We help organizations maintain a strong security posture, meet regulatory requirements and protect critical data assets with confidence.

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<h3>Our partners </h3>

<p>With over 100 global partnerships, Cognizant collaborates with world-class organizations to expand our capabilities and deliver end-to-end business and IT solutions—tailored to your needs.</p>

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Serving customers by looking forward as well as back is a big promise, but the power of today’s new digital capabilities is vast and growing.

Let’s talk about how digital can work for your business.

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