Zero-Noise Data Security Posture Management

Find Sensitive Files
In Hours, Not Months

FileHero automatically discovers hardcoded credentials, scattered PII, and sensitive data across cloud storage, databases, code repositories, and AI pipelines. One searchable inventory of every exposure.

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FileHero dashboard
The problem

Breaches don't start with zero-days.
They start with a forgotten file.

Not sophisticated exploits. Just forgotten files on open shares, and access crawl: permissions quietly spreading to anyone who can reach them.

Shadow Data Growth
Sensitive files proliferate across cloud storage and network drives. 2.5B files are created daily, most invisible to security teams.
Compliance Blindness
68% of companies don't know where their data resides. Manual audits can't keep pace with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 requirements.
Access Sprawl
40% of sensitive files are open to "Everyone." Former employees and over-privileged users retain dangerous access that nobody tracks.
Breach Vulnerability
Unmonitored plain-text data is a prime target. The average breach costs $4.45M, and the root cause is usually a forgotten file.
The origin story

Why we built FileHero

In our previous roles as pentesters and security engineers, we saw breaches unfold not through zero-day exploits, but through simple forgotten files enabling lateral movement. This is the chain we built FileHero to break.

The Trigger
The Convenient File

A developer saves db_creds.txt on a shared drive. Meant to be temporary, indexed and forgotten.

The Entry
Initial Foothold

An attacker phishes a non-technical employee. Network access, but low privileges. They can't do much, yet.

Lateral Movement
Discovery

They scan shares readable by "Everyone". They find the file from step one. They now have admin database keys.

The Impact
Compromise

Using the found keys, they pivot to critical servers. Data exfiltration and ransomware deployment begins.

FileHero catches it on day one.

The file is found, the exposure confirmed, before an attacker gets there. Not day 287, the industry average time to identify a breach.

How it works

Connect. Detect. Investigate.

Three steps. No alert fatigue, no blind spots, no false positives reaching your queue.

1 Connect your data sources
2 Automatic detection
3 Investigate findings
01 - Connect

Point FileHero at your storage.
Done in minutes.

Lightweight on-prem agents connect to cloud storage, network shares, code repos, and databases. Credentials never leave your environment. Scanning starts immediately.

35+ connectors: S3, SharePoint, GitHub, Google Drive, and more
Credentials stay in your environment, never reach our servers
Scans run continuously, scheduled or on-demand
New connector deployable in under 5 minutes
Eliminates risk
Shadow Data Growth Compliance Blindness
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Data Sources + Add connector
AWS
Production S3
us-east-1 · 4 buckets · 248,391 files
Connected
Last scan: 4m ago
MS
Corp SharePoint
Tenant: 88f2... · 91,204 files
Connected
Last scan: 11m ago
GH
github / api-service
18,540 files indexed
Connected
Last scan: 2m ago
SMB
Legacy FileServer
192.168.1.55 · Pending credentials
Pending
02 - Detect

Scan content, not just names.
300+ classifiers, zero noise.

FileHero's four-layer pipeline uses regex patterns, contextual NER models, and zero-shot ML classifiers to inspect file content, then verifies every credential finding against live APIs before it surfaces. Your team sees only confirmed exposures.

PII: SSN, passport, bank accounts, health records, biometrics
Credentials: AWS, GCP, Azure, Stripe, GitHub, and 100+ services, all verified live
False positives eliminated before anything reaches your queue
Risk score and blast radius assessed per finding
Eliminates risk
Access Sprawl Breach Vulnerability
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Recent Findings 12 critical
Employee_Comp_Review_2025.pdf
SharePoint / HR / Sensitive
SSN · 847 records Passport · 23 Bank Account · 312
94
Risk
db_credentials.txt
aws-s3-prod / config / secrets
AWS Key · 98% conf DB Password · 99% conf
91
Risk
customer_export_Q3.csv
onedrive-finance / exports
SSN · 2,341 records DOB · 2,341 records
78
Risk
03 - Investigate

Pinpoint every exposure, exactly what, where, and who.

FileHero doesn't just flag a file as risky. It shows the exact finding type, confidence score, line-level location, and who can reach the file, so your team knows precisely what they're looking at.

Exact finding type, confidence score, and record count
File path, source system, and exposure type
Blast radius: who has access and how they got it
Full audit trail for GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS
Eliminates risk
Breach Vulnerability
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Employee_Comp_Review_2025.pdf
SharePoint / HR / Sensitive / Compensation
HR Dept Files Audit
Risk
94
Exposure
Public Share Link
Access Risk
High (8 users)
Sensitive Data Found (3)
Social Security Number
Line 948, Col 45–57
98% conf
Passport Number
Line 950, Col 51–68
99% conf
Bank Account Number
Line 462, Col 38–49
99% conf
Security

Built so you can trust it with
your most sensitive data.

Architecture-level guarantees, not promises. Designed so that even we can't access your files.

File bytes stay local
The agent runs inside your VPC or on-prem server. Only metadata and findings are ever transmitted.
ECIES credential encryption
Credentials are encrypted end-to-end in your browser. FileHero servers never see plaintext, only your agent can decrypt.
AES-256 · TLS 1.3
Encrypted at rest and in transit. Envelope encryption via Cloud KMS with enforced key rotation.
Immutable audit log
Every scan, finding, and user action is logged with a timestamp. Full export for GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

Security questions? hello@filehero.dk, reports available under NDA.

Connectors

35+ connectors. Wherever your data lives.

Cloud storage, code repos, databases, AI pipelines, collaboration platforms, and on-prem file shares.

S3Amazon S3 GCSGoogle Cloud Storage AZAzure Blob R2Cloudflare R2 B2Backblaze B2 MNMinIO GDGoogle Drive ODOneDrive / SharePoint DbDropbox BoxBox SLSlack MTMicrosoft Teams CFConfluence NTNotion SFSalesforce GHGitHub GLGitLab BBBitbucket ADOAzure DevOps OAIOpenAI Files API M365Microsoft Copilot PNPinecone WVWeaviate CHChroma QDQdrant PGPostgreSQL MYMySQL / MariaDB MSSQL Server MGMongoDB RDSAWS RDS / Aurora BQBigQuery DBDatabricks ESElasticsearch SWSnowflake SMBNetwork File Shares FTPSFTP / FTP + Don't see yours? Request a connector
Deployment

Runs where your data lives.

Fully cloud, fully on-prem, or somewhere in between, FileHero adapts to your infrastructure.

SaaS Fastest setup
Scanning agent
Deployed in your cloud VPC
Yours
Dashboard
FileHero hosted
FileHero
File data
Stays in your cloud, never transmitted
Yours
Best for
Teams that want to be scanning within the hour. No infrastructure to manage.
On-Premises Strictest privacy
Scanning agent
Runs inside your network
Yours
Dashboard
Self-hosted on your servers
Yours
File data
Never leaves your perimeter
Yours
Best for
Air-gapped environments and organisations with strict data residency requirements.
Hybrid Best of both
Scanning agent
Runs on-prem beside your data
Yours
Dashboard
FileHero hosted, no ops burden
FileHero
File data
Stays local, only findings forwarded
Yours
Best for
Teams that want data sovereignty without the overhead of running a self-hosted UI.
Compliance

Built for regulated industries.

Every finding maps to a compliance framework. Your audit evidence is generated continuously, not assembled by hand before a review.

GDPR Locate EU resident data across every source. Support access requests, erasure workflows, and Article 30 records of processing.
HIPAA Identify PHI across storage locations automatically. Access control documentation and breach risk assessment for covered entities.
SOC 2 Continuous classification, access control evidence, and automated evidence collection. Pre-built evidence packs for Type II audits.
PCI DSS Locate cardholder data, map data flows, and generate evidence for QSA reviews across cloud and on-prem sources.
ISO 27001 Asset inventory and classification, access control evidence (A.9), and incident management log (A.16) mapped to Annex A controls.
EU AI Act Classify training data before AI ingestion. Inventory what data your AI systems access and generate evidence for high-risk system audits.
The team

Built by people who've seen what
a forgotten file can do.

A security engineer who spent a decade finding these exposures, and an operator who lived with the consequences of them. Two perspectives. One product.

S
Sebastian Andersen
Co-Founder

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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M
Morten Secher
Co-Founder

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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Book a Demo

See FileHero in action.

A live walkthrough on realistic demo data. No slides, no prep needed on your side.

30-minute demo

See the full platform in action.

A live walkthrough on realistic demo data, every screen, every workflow. No slides, no prep needed on your side.

We'll show you how agents surface sensitive file exposures across storage locations, how live verification confirms every finding is real, and how the findings dashboard gives your team complete visibility.

30 minutes. Bring your security or compliance team.

FAQ

Common questions

Everything you need to evaluate FileHero before booking a call.

01
Does FileHero ever see my file contents?
No. The agent scans locally, only metadata and finding summaries are ever transmitted. File bytes never leave your environment.
02
How is the agent deployed?
A single binary on any machine with network access to your sources, up and scanning in under 10 minutes. Air-gapped on-prem is supported via Docker Compose or Kubernetes.
03
What data sources are supported?
35+ connectors: S3, GCS, Azure Blob, Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, GitHub, GitLab, and on-prem file servers. New connectors ship regularly.
04
How long does an initial scan take?
It depends on scope, but most environments complete their first scan in minutes rather than hours. After that, new findings surface in near real time as files are created or permissions change.
05
What context comes with each finding?
File path, source, exposure type, data category, live verification status, and current access list, everything needed to act without pivoting to another tool.
06
Why not just run an LLM over my files?
LLMs can't tell real credentials from test fixtures without live verification, produce non-deterministic output unsuitable as compliance evidence, and require sending your files to an external model, the exact problem you're trying to solve.
07
How is FileHero different from Varonis, Cyera, or BigID?
Those tools surface findings and stop. FileHero confirms every finding against live APIs before it reaches your queue, fewer alerts, all of them real.
08
Is there a free trial?
No self-serve trial, book a demo and we'll walk you through the platform. If it's a fit, we'll set up a pilot together.

More questions? Write to hello@filehero.dk, we read every message.