
Teleskope Understand
Teleskope Understand is a sensitive-data classification product for security teams.
What Teleskope Understand is
Teleskope Understand is a sensitive-data classification product for security teams. It uses machine learning, large language models, and small language models to identify PII, payment-card data, health information, secrets, tokens, and business-specific sensitive data. Rather than treating each finding in isolation, it can consider document context, access permissions, an organization’s business profile, and risk appetite. Its Prism document intelligence classifies whole documents and can find documents resembling known sensitive examples without predefined rules. Understand also maps human and non-human identities to the sensitive information they can access and ranks them by risk. Its event-driven approach identifies new data and reclassifies modified data in real time, and Teleskope says it scans every file rather than sampling. Coverage includes databases, warehouses, cloud storage, SaaS, repositories, logs, APIs, and collaboration tools. Deployment choices include air-gapped, single-tenant SaaS, and Teleskope-managed options. The API can support custom integrations. Pricing is on request.
Good
- Classifies PII, PCI, PHI, secrets, and tokens
- Uses access and business context in classification
- Maps identities to sensitive data access and risk
- Reclassifies changed data in real time
- Offers air-gapped, single-tenant, and managed deployment
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request
- Claude and Gemini integrations are marked coming soon
Who it suits
It suits security teams seeking context-aware discovery across structured and unstructured data, identity risk visibility, and ongoing classification. Teleskope cites customer traction in fintech, healthcare, hospitality, and media.
Verdict
Teleskope Understand combines broad data discovery with context-aware classification and identity visibility. Its deployment options and custom-integration API may suit organizations with specific infrastructure needs, but buyers must request pricing.
Plans and prices
From Teleskope Understand's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Teleskope Understand | Priced on request | Pricing not listed; contact sales for a demo |
The facts
Each one read from Teleskope Understand's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- Teleskope says its API supports custom integrations for non-standard systems and integrations with security and IT infrastructure.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Teleskope says its audit trail and automated evidence generation support SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, CCPA, and EU AI Act reporting requirements.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Context
- Its classification uses context such as who can access data, the document it appears in, business profile, and risk appetite.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Context-aware classification
- It uses information such as document context, access, business profile, and risk appetite to classify data in context.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Continuous data map
- Its event-driven architecture reclassifies new or changed data in real time and updates the data map continuously.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Coverage
- The product page lists structured databases and warehouses, unstructured files across cloud storage and SaaS, code repositories, logs, APIs, and collaboration tools.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Data types
- It classifies PII, PCI, PHI, secrets, tokens, and business-specific sensitive data types.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Teleskope offers air-gapped, single-tenant SaaS, and Teleskope-managed deployment options.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Deployment and data handling
- Teleskope offers air-gapped, single-tenant SaaS, and Teleskope-managed deployment; it says its air-gapped option runs inside the customer's infrastructure without outbound data transfer.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Document intelligence
- Prism classifies documents as a whole and can identify similar sensitive documents from examples without predefined rules.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Identity risk
- Teleskope classifies human, external, personal, and service identities by the sensitive data they can access.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Identity visibility
- Understand identifies human and non-human identities with access to sensitive data and ranks them by risk.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Integration availability
- The integrations page marks Claude and Gemini integrations as coming soon.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The integrations page lists sources including Snowflake, SharePoint and OneDrive, OpenAI, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Databricks, Box, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure services.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Teleskope describes its mission as equipping organizations to detect risks, automate protection, and scale with confidence, and says it serves security teams.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Teleskope says its API supports custom integrations for non-standard systems.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Understand automatically classifies sensitive information using machine learning, including PII, PCI, PHI, secrets, and business-specific data types.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Scanning limit
- Teleskope says it scans every file and does not rely on sampling.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Security
- The company says air-gapped deployments run inside the customer's infrastructure with no outbound data transfer.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- Teleskope lists [email protected] for customer support and says it aims to respond to contact requests within 24 hours or less.checked 5 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- The company history page dates its early development to 2022 and says Teleskope launched general availability in January 2025.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2022checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- New York, New York, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Continuous mapping
- Its event-driven architecture classifies new sensitive data as it appears and reclassifies modified data in real time.checked 4 Oct 2026
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