An agent inside your network finds credentials and personal data wherever files live, verifies every key against the provider, and names everyone who can open the file.
One convenient file on an open share. An attacker with a phished login lists every share readable by "Everyone", finds it, and holds admin keys. The industry notices on day 247. FileHero finds it on day one, verifies the key live, and names every person who could reach it.
db_creds.txt to a share.Days are illustrative. The industry average is 183 days to identify a breach and 247 days to identify and contain it. IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026.
Agents scan the contents of files, not their names. Comments, footnotes, cell notes, and document metadata are read alongside the body, and text inside images is read too.
Every scanner has to get your content and a classifier into the same place. You can move the content, or move the classifier. We move the classifier, so only finding metadata crosses the wire. No full-SaaS option, on purpose.
Agent on-prem or in your VPC. Only findings are transmitted.
ECIES to the agent's own key before every scan.
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, ECDSA-signed findings, optional mTLS.
Dashboard hosted in EU regions, or self-hosted and air-gapped.
Also looking at Microsoft Purview, Varonis, Cyera, BigID, or Wiz? Ask each one where classification happens, and whether it can run with no content leaving your network at all. Architecture is the one thing a vendor cannot change for you later.
Architecture walkthrough on a call · penetration test reports under NDA · sub-processor list and DPA on request · hello@filehero.dk
65+ connectors and 100+ file types, all in one price. The same file can sit in several at once, each copy carrying its own permissions: the original locked down, the copy on an open share. We correlate them and treat them as one file. Anything the agent cannot read is reported as a coverage gap, never counted as clean.
Every finding is mapped to the controls it affects, with per-control scoring and export. Evidence is generated continuously, not assembled by hand before an audit. Turn on only the frameworks you actually report against.
A pentester who spent a decade finding these exposures, and an operator who lived with the consequences.
Security engineer and pentester with 10+ years in the field. Spent a career finding exposed credentials, misconfigured shares, and forgotten files. Built FileHero to close the loop instead.
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Spent years in the shipping industry, where mishandled data has real operational consequences. Brings the commercial strategy and industry perspective to FileHero.
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Questions? hello@filehero.dk. Security reports available under NDA.