Data Discovery release notes
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Summary of Data Discovery release notes
Data Discovery on the ServiceNow Store provides customers with capabilities to detect, classify, and manage sensitive data across their ServiceNow platform. It uses out-of-the-box (OOB) and custom regex patterns, AI/ML models, and Named Entity Recognition (NER) to identify sensitive information such as names, addresses, job positions, and salary details. This visibility is crucial for enhancing data security and preventing exposure or loss.
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Key Features
- AI/ML and NER-based detection: Intelligent patterns for discovering unstructured sensitive data that does not follow strict regex patterns, including new NER data types like Address, City, State, Country, Job Position, and Salary introduced in version 8.1.0.
- Regex pattern enhancements: Addition of 13 new OOB regular expression data patterns to improve accuracy of sensitive data detection.
- Text-to-Regex generation: Utilizes Now Assist prompts to generate regex patterns dynamically for discovering sensitive data (introduced in version 7.0.0 and enhanced in 7.1.0).
- Revamped user interface: Updated UI with intuitive widgets and a guided setup to simplify data discovery configuration and use, improving user experience from version 7.0.0 onward.
- Data discovery policies: Streamline the configuration process for sensitive data discovery.
- Attachment support: Discovery and reporting of sensitive data from Excel and CSV file attachments.
- Scan capabilities: Support for full scans, incremental scans, and real-time discovery APIs to efficiently identify sensitive data.
- Column-level discovery: Enables fine-grained identification of sensitive data within table columns.
- Real-time data discovery: Support for journal fields and APIs to detect sensitive data as it is created or modified.
- Integration with GenAI: Added support for NowLLM LTS to enhance AI/ML capabilities.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Gain comprehensive visibility into sensitive data residing on the ServiceNow platform, including structured data and attachments.
- Leverage AI-driven and regex-based detection to automate sensitive data classification and reduce manual effort.
- Use improved UI and guided setup to quickly configure and initiate data discovery jobs with options for full or incremental scans.
- Implement data discovery policies to standardize and streamline sensitive data management across the organization.
- Enhance security posture by identifying and anonymizing sensitive information proactively, supporting compliance and risk management efforts.
Maintenance and Updates
Recent patch releases focus on defect fixes and enhanced support, including compatibility with GenAI features. Customers should refer to the ServiceNow Store listing for system requirements and family compatibility details before upgrading.
Version history for the Data Discovery on the ServiceNow Store.
Important:
For details on system requirements and family compatibility, view the application
listing on the ServiceNow Store
website.
Version history
- Version 7.1.4 - April 2026
- No New functionality
- Patch release to handle defects
- Version 8.1.0 - March 2026
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- New Named Entity Recognition (NER) model data patterns - Address, City, State, Country, Job Position, and Salary - to detect and anonymize sensitive data.
- New OOB Regular Expression (RegEx) data patterns - 13 new data patterns
- Version 7.1.2 - January 2026
- No new functionality
- Patch release to handle defects
- Version 7.1.1 - December 2025
- No new functionality
- Patch release to add support for NowLLM LTS for GenAI capabilities
- Version 7.1.0 - September 2025
- Text to generate Regex feature using Now Assist prompts to generate regex to discover sensitive data.
- Revamped Data Discovery user interface.
- Version 7.0.0 - August 2025
- Revamped Data Discovery user interface to improve the Data Discovery experience with intuitive widgets, a streamlined user experience, and a guided setup for first time users
- AI/ML based data patterns for intelligent discovery of sensitive data that is already on the platform
- Text to generate Regex feature using Now Assist prompts to generate regex to discover sensitive data
- Data discovery policies to streamline configurations to discover sensitive data
- Additional support for Excel and .CSV files for discovery and reporting of sensitive data from attachments
- Full scan and incremental scan support for data discovery jobs
- Column-level discovery of sensitive data
- Version 6.0.2 - July 2025
- AI/ML based data patterns for intelligent discovery of sensitive data that doesn't follow a pattern like name, address, etc.
- Discovery and reporting of sensitive data from attachments.
- Version 6.0.1 - February 2025
- AI/ML based data patterns for intelligent discovery of sensitive data that doesn't follow a pattern like name, address, etc.
- Discovery and reporting of sensitive data from attachments.
- Version 5.0.1 - August 2024
- Data Discovery for Real time, support for journal fields.
- Version 3.0.1 - February 2024
- Data pattern discovery using keywords and keyword proximity
- Real time Data Discovery APIs support
- Version 2.0.0 - November 2023
- New:
- Full scan on the targeted tables.
- Anonymization of users by group
- Consolidate findings
- Changed:
- Users can now select a start date for data discovery jobs
- Bug fixes
- New:
- Version 1.0.0 - May 2023
Data Discovery gives you the ability to discover sensitive data using out-of-the-box data patterns or by creating custom regex patterns to act on: For example, to classify, report, or view. It provides sensitive data with visibility and cataloging which is an essential first step towards preventing data loss or exposure. This enables organizations to implement appropriate security measures and increase their security posture.