The most valuable feature of CA Data Content Discovery is the ability to recognize, in an intelligent and accessible way, which data sets on the mainframe contain sensitive data that needs to be protected from a governance and regulatory perspective. It then gives you the ability to easily monitor how those data sources are being used, and to alert you if they are being misused. This can save a company a lot of grief, both in terms of violating regulations, as well as in terms of being hacked for things like credit card numbers. This is a very important solution for some of today's most pressing security risks.

From a security perspective, the most interesting thing is the number of classifiers the product has right out of the box. When I first started with the product, it had 88 and now it has 133. So you know that CA has been working to add more classifiers by talking to their user community. That's very impressive from an end-user standpoint. It shows me what have they been doing since the product first was unveiled last year.