SSH Sources & Workflows

You can now use actions like deletion, masking, and classification on SSH sources as well. “Discover&Classify” or Consent-based remediation now works on SSH sources.

Source:SSH

Workflows 9

ADS alternative Labelling for Linux and MacOS

ADS is used for files that do not support labelling, unlike PDF, Word, or Excel files. However, the ADS (Alternate Data Stream) method only works on NTFS systems. GEODI now supports ADS alternative labvelling for linux systems.

Discovery Agent - GEODI Desktop Explorer(GDE) Installation

Workflows 9

Bulk Discovery on Shared E-Mail Sources

Since Microsoft removed the 'Application Impersonation' permission, bulk email discovery was not possible. This issue has been resolved with a new development. You can now perform bulk discovery on shared mailboxes using the Microsoft Graph API

Source:E-mail

GEODI 9

GEODI 9 brings numerous enhancements beyond what we can list here—making it, in our opinion, the best version yet. In addition to major architectural upgrades like the revamped Admin Interface and Workflow Engine, we’ve introduced significant improvements to Search, Data Discovery, and the DECE-STORE module.

Enjoy the most powerful GEODI experience to date!

Workflows

With GEODI 9, the new Workflow feature takes automation to the next level—enabling not just deletion or quarantine actions, but a wide range of operations to run completely hands-free.

Workflows 9

Consent Based Remedition

Consent-Based Remediation is a governance-driven approach where actions such as deletion, quarantine, or redaction of data are executed only after explicit approval by authorized individuals, typically data owners or information custodians. With GEODI 9 data owners can now drive the remediation.

🛡️ Consent based Remediation

Admin Page

The Admin Interface has been completely redesigned for system administrators—offering a cleaner, more modern experience. Frequently used actions are now easier to access, making daily operations faster and more efficient.

GEODI System Management Page

GEODI Cluster

Managing GEODI Clusters is now simpler than ever. We've streamlined configuration and made project management much more intuitive, saving you time and reducing complexity.

GEODI System Management Page

New Data Sources

We continue to cover digital data sources.

• ElasticSearch

• Amazon S3

• Microsoft Teams

• MinIO

• SSH

Customization Report

We’ve introduced a new feature that lists all the customizations made in your GEODI environment and packages the differences for easy tracking. This greatly simplifies configuration management and server migrations—while also serving as a powerful tool for troubleshooting.

Customizations

Discovery Agent Enhanced

Customizing the Discovery Agent by server or IP is now easier than ever—everything can be configured directly through the interface. Plus, agents now fully support data enrichment and actions across all platforms.

Discovery Agent - GEODI Desktop Explorer(GDE) Installation

Duplicate and Similarity Queries

We've enhanced how GEODI detects and queries duplicates or similar content. With these improvements, it's now much easier to take actions like identifying items in the same classification, removing near-duplicates, or securely disposing of exact copies.

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Workflow Scheduling

In GEODI 9, workflows can now be scheduled—not just created and run instantly. You can set them to run periodically or trigger them automatically after a discovery process. This makes it easy to automate tasks like:

• Sending an email when discovery ends

• Classifying newly found data

• Notifying you when PII is detected

Run multiple actions, effortlessly and on time.

Workflows 9

Secure Delete Action

The Secure Delete action has been enhanced to offer true permanent deletion—ensuring data cannot be recovered. Endpoint support has also been expanded: it now works not only on Windows, but also on Linux and macOS devices.

You can seamlessly integrate this action into complex workflows such as:

• Copy →

• Secure Delete →

• Send Email

Perfect for compliance, cleanup, and automation scenarios.

Workflows 9

Copy Action

The Copy action allows you to back up original content before executing actions like Secure Delete or in-place classification. It’s not limited to files—this action works across all content types, ensuring a reliable fallback before any critical operation.

Workflows 9

Masking Action

The Masking action has been significantly enhanced. You can now choose between in-place masking or creating a masked copy—offering flexibility for different security and compliance needs.

Endpoint support has also been expanded: the action now runs not only on Windows, but also on Linux and macOS systems.

Workflows 9

Encryption Action

The Encryption action has been upgraded to support multiple secure workflows—whether you want to encrypt the content in place or generate an encrypted copy.

With extended endpoint support, this action now runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS environments—ensuring cross-platform protection for your sensitive data.

Workflows 9

Classification Action

The Classification action has been enhanced with powerful new capabilities. You can now:

• Automatically classify during discovery

• Apply classification to existing data

• Create a classified copy

• Or classify content in place

All based on customizable classification rules.

Plus, it now works across all major platforms—Windows, Linux, and macOS—bringing full endpoint support to your data governance workflows.

Workflows 9

Send Email Action

A key component of any workflow, the Send Email action lets you notify stakeholders at any point—whether during or after the process. It keeps you informed about what happened and when it happened.

You can send emails to individuals or entire LDAP groups, and include reports or other attachments directly in the message.

Workflows 9

Classification Enhancements

Classification performance has been significantly improved—especially for large Excel files. You'll notice quicker processing times and smoother workflows when dealing with high-volume or complex datasets.

With GEODI Q, AI-powered automatic classification features have been enhanced.

Workflow/Action Logging

All actions within workflows are now thoroughly logged. Issues preventing successful execution, such as corrupted files, read-only documents, or unsupported formats, are clearly captured in the logs.

These logs are essential for diagnosing problems, improving workflows, and ensuring smooth operation.

Workflows 9

Log Enhancements

Logging capabilities have been expanded to cover additional system events, providing deeper visibility into operations. Syslog integration has also been improved—making it easier to forward logs to centralized monitoring and SIEM platforms.

Template Projects

A major upgrade to Template Projects now makes classification and discovery templates fully generic. With this enhancement, a single template can support global use—no more region-specific limitations. One template, worldwide coverage.

Interfaces

With GEODI 9, we’ve kicked off a series of UI improvements that will continue to evolve. Help texts are now right where you need them—no more “click to read” or “click to go to help page.” Everything is instantly accessible, right in front of you.

Based on our experience, we think you’re going to love it! 😊

DBMetas Enhanced

We’ve improved discovery for embedded and linked files—making it easier to surface hidden data. GEODI can now identify extensionless files, and we've also refined how display names appear for better clarity and consistency.

Detail Settings Dialogs Improved

Many sections within GEODI include advanced settings—and now, the editors for these configurations have been upgraded. With smarter error detection and a more refined interface, you'll save time and reduce misconfigurations.

Installation Made Easier

Many improvements have been made to simplify the installation of GEODI. With this development, online or offline GEODI module and agent updates are now fully automated.

You can find the details on the GEODI Server Installation page.

Smarter Web Discovery

A new option has been added to automatically remove unnecessary content while exploring web pages. This feature eliminates headers, footers, and menus, making the process more efficient. It’s a great enhancement for building a ChatBot with GEODI Q or for other discovery needs.

Expanded Classifier Tagging Options

GEODI Classifier now supports texts created with Word QuickPart. This allows you to develop non-standard tagging schemes more effectively.

Classification

Faster System Updates

Previously, system updates or other needs caused discovery to take time to stop. Now, it halts much faster, reducing system downtime significantly.

Notification When the Project Discovery is Complete!

When the discovery is complete, you will receive an email notification attached with the summary report. This way, you do not need to monitor Discovery process and you will have the result as soon as the discovery completed.

Scheduled Backup

New Dashboard Tools Added

GEODI Panels have been improved, and the Counter/Multi-Counter tool has been added. This allows for easily adding the number of words matching a rule in a query result.

Discovery:Panels

Discovery Panel Enhanced

Finding Trend analysis and Counters have been added to the Discovery Panel. With Counters

• Total PII content count

• Total PCI content count

• Copies count

• Data count older than 10 years

has been added.

With trend analysis, it is much easier to track the change in finding numbers over time. You can track the increase with newly discovered findings and the decrease with destruction/quarantine.

Client Panel Enhanced

The client panel now has new counters for the following:

• Total Number of PCs

• Number of PCs Analyzed

• Number of Operating Systems

• Existing GDE Versions

Additionally, detailed information on how much data has been received from each machine is now available. This improvement enhances system monitoring and analysis processes.

Client Panel

Info, Warning and Error Messages are More Readable

Info, Warning and Error messages are now more clear and informative. Now, each message has an Info, Warning, or Error tag. Error logs and summary reports are also affected.

Office Classifier Get Faster

The Office add-on is faster, especially for large Excel files. Once you update the GEODI, the agents will automatically update themselves.

Classification

GEODI Q Recognizer is Better

GEODI Q has numerous enhancements. Added Deepseek support. Writing prompts is easier, and we now resolve previously challenging topics internally. Features such as automatic segregation of multiple findings within a single content have been introduced.

Additionally, pre-built recognizers tailored for common purposes have been added.

GEODI Q Chat is Better

GEODI Q Chat is faster. You can use Support Q, an example of a GEODI Q Chat application from our support sites.

support.decesoftware.com

GEODI now discover SSH sources

SSh sources can now be discovered. For some of those sources, an agent can still be used.

Please check Source:SSHpage for the details.

The backup option is now the default.

All templates are now backup active. The default backup folder is /backup in the ındex folder. The project will be back up every day at 03:00.

Scheduled Backup

Various improvements for classification

1. Classify after discovery settings are now more manageable. Please check Classification page for details.

2. Recognition of labels and visual markings of alternative classification tools improved.

GEODI Q, many improvements

The GEODI Q recognizer and chat features have been improved greatly, improving advanced discovery and automated classification.

GDE Agent Installation Made Easy

The Project wizard generates the necessary Batch file for setting up the GDE agent. You can copy and use it with tools like ManageEngine or SCCM. Alternatively, manual installation is also possible.

GDE Agent

Error and Warning Messages Are Now Much More Readable

GEODI logs and displays messages in the interface for numerous situations, such as unreadable files, inaccessible web pages, invalid tokens, or user information. These messages and logs were often difficult to understand. With this new development, they are now much clearer and categorized as Error, Warning, or Information.

Exclude Views Option in Database Discovery

You can now exclude Views during database discovery. Since Views often contain data already present in other tables, excluding them will reduce duplicate data discovery and improve performance.

Source:DataBase

Manual Proxy Configuration for Email Connectionsyarı

You can now configure a manual proxy for email connections.

Kaynak:E-Mail

Solution for Non-Overlapping Sharing and File Permissions

During LDAP permission checks on shared resources, an option has been added to ignore sharing permissions and built-in permissions.

When settings are changed, re-scanning is not required. The new settings are applied to existing content via the "Adjust Permissions" feature.

User/Authorization Management

Default Speed is Now 5

The default value, previously set to 3, has been increased to 5. This means new projects will now start faster right away.

Improvements and Speed Enhancements in Summary Reports

Summary reports provide an overview of various details about projects and discoveries. Visual and performance enhancements have been made to these reports for a better experience.

Discovery:Reports

Classification Server and Agents Improved.

Labeling and annotation features are improved.

Agents are now on DECE-STORE

It is now much easıer to manage the agents. Agent update was otomatic but now it is much easier to manage on closed networks as well.

Offline Updates are much Easier

It is much easy to manage updates in closed networks.

Indexing of Unknown File Extentions

The files other than the ignore list will be indexed by their name and dates.

Default Values Updated

Based on user feedback, the default values have been changed.

1. Performance: The speed is now at its highest level.

2. Unrecognized File Extensions: These will now be indexed by file name (previously, they were ignored).

3. MDB and File-Based Databases: By default, they will be indexed by name. The required module can be installed from DECE-STORE to explore tables and rows.

Maintenance Tools Accelerated

Maintenance tools, such as updating permissions, are now faster.

Query for file names and file contents.

With this development, you can now search by specifying either just the content or just the file name. You can use this capability in searches or classifications.

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It is possible to compress old indexes.

With the new index improvements in GEODI, the index structure has become much more compact. This version allows for compressing old discovery and search indexes and transitioning them to the new structure.

Possible to modify default auto-classification rules by new dictionaries

There are two dictionaries for the Confidential and Restricted classes. Any addition, deletion, or modification to these dictionaries will affect the classification rules.

You can access these dictionaries under the Classification tab on the GEODI dictionaries page. You can delete or add entries as needed."

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Name recognizer covers more languages.

A critical feature of GEODI NLP is the name recognizer. Numerous improvements have been made to recognize names, the most important being the recognition of names in more languages. Recognizing names from unstructured data is crucial in discovery and classification.

Digits in all languages

The world has many alphabets, and digits are written differently in various languages, but they all refer to the same thing. GEODI now behaves the same no matter which alphabet or language a number is written in. This is true for an ID number, a date or any other text that contains a digit.

Ready SourceCode query added

predefined:SourceCode query lists all source code files. The query supports extensions for well-known languages.

You need to install the module from DECE-STORE.

Ready CV query added

predefined:CV queries various CV documents based on content. Currently, it supports English, German, French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindu, Urdu, and Turkish.

New Country and Regulation Templates

We have significantly enhanced the discovery scope and improved the performance of each country.

There are now templates for each country and regulation. Just choose a template and start discovering. This feature is part of GEODI Discovery.

You can now search DECE-STORE with regulation names, like GDPR, SAMA, or PDPL.

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Limiting System Admins Permissions

System Administrators don’t have to be superusers anymore. You can limit sysadmins’s access to the project, totally preventing them from seeing the content and discovery results, and just manage the system.

https://decesw.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/geodien/pages/3973808173/User+Authorization+Management#Limit%2FOverride-SystemAdmin-superuser-permissions

Improved LDAP Support and New Queries

Improvements have been made to LDAP file permissions. It is now also possible to query documents if a particular user and group sees.

User: <user> or user: <group> queries can also be used for classification. For example, if a particular group sees a document, it is confidential.

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Possible to see all permissions of a content

There is a new component for system admins to see the permissions for the documents on the search interface. Click a document to see who can access it.

Much less index disk requirements

GEODI index has been improved for disk size. There are also minor performance improvements.

Licence Dialog improved

License dialog has been improved for subscription licenses.

Now, the remaining time is much visible.

License deactivation/activation has also been simplified.

Faster Sampled DB discovery

The workload on DBs for sampling mode has been optimized. Sampled DB discovery is now up to %70 faster.

Uses less memory

Some discovery projects used too much memory, and it was possible to get an “out of memory” error in some cases.

Memory usage has been optimized and almost constant for any dataset.

The memory requirements mentioned in the system requirements are still valid.

New Queries

There are new predefined queries and a new page for a more deiled explanation. Predefined queries make addressing target data much easier.

1. Predefined:PCI → select discoveries in the PCI/DSS regulation scope.

2. Predefined:PII → to address PII data

3. Predefined:O5Y → legacy data older than 5 years

4. ..

For more

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