Concentric AI is expanding the Private Scan Manager functionality in its Semantic Intelligence data security governance platform—enabling customers to deploy Semantic Intelligence within their own private Microsoft Azure cloud.
According to the company, this follows an announcement earlier in 2025 where Concentric AI announced support for private scanning in AWS environments and gives customers the choice of deploying in either private cloud environment.
With Concentric AI’s Private Scan Manager for Azure, organizations can now meet compliance standards while also benefiting from the advanced categorization, robust remediation, and comprehensive GenAI data security capabilities of its leading data security governance solution.
Private Scan Manager for Azure is an ideal deployment option for U.S. government agencies, public sector entities, and contractors that use Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud (GCC) High to manage and secure Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), the company said.
It also gives other organizations with highly sensitive data that cannot leave their on-premises environments, such as those in healthcare and financial services, the flexibility to leverage AI-driven data security governance to discover and categorize all their structured and unstructured data at unprecedented speeds and with exceptional accuracy, all while maintaining regulatory compliance by ensuring that their sensitive data never leaves their on-prem environments, the company said.
With Private Scan Manager for Azure, all raw data scanning and categorization occurs in the organization’s private Microsoft Azure cloud. As a result, organizations don’t need the significant computing resources required to run the software on their own servers or the operational resources to manage, maintain, and upgrade it.
“While other vendors are stepping away from on-prem deployments, Concentric AI remains focused on giving our customers choices,” said Dhruv Jhain, VP of product at Concentric AI. “Concentric AI’s Private Scan Manager for Azure is important to organizations in highly regulated industries, for example, hedge funds, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, telcos, and so on, because it can help them reap the operational benefits of SaaS and alleviate heavy data processing burdens while at the same time enabling adherence to compliance mandates.”
Semantic Intelligence redefines what’s possible in data security governance by serving as a single end-to-end platform to protect enterprise data wherever it lives and however it travels, according to the vendor. This includes data at rest across cloud and on-premises environments; data in motion being emailed, uploaded to file sharing applications, and posted on social media; and across all the GenAI applications users interact with today.
Concentric AI’s new Private Scan Manager for Azure is available now on the Semantic Intelligence platform.
For more information, see www.concentric.ai.