DeviceLock Discovery is used to discover certain types of content existing on the computers and storage devices connected to the local network. These include supported local synchronization directories for selected cloud storage services. Discovery Agent automatically detects all synchronization folders on computer for selected services and performs scanning and configured Discovery actions for files stored in these folders. When used together with DeviceLock, the DeviceLock Discovery greatly enhances the capabilities of the Content-Aware Rules feature. With DeviceLock Discovery, you can not only locate information, but perform a number of actions to grant or deny access to information, alert the administrator, remove or encrypt discovered content or notify the computer user.

DeviceLock Discovery discovers information based on real file types, and allows using regular expression patterns with numerical conditions and Boolean combinations of matching criteria and keywords. Recognizing more than eighty file formats and data types, DeviceLock Discovery extracts and filters the content of data stored on computers’ local hard drives, plug-n-play storage devices and NAS servers attached to the local area network. With DeviceLock Discovery, you can also narrow the search to filter information down to just those pieces meaningful to security auditing, incident investigations and forensic analysis.