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The people who most need answers about sensitive data are rarely the people who can query for them. Ask Sentra is an AI assistant for data security, built into Sentra, that lets security, GRC, privacy and executive users ask in plain English. It answers from your Sentra data under each user's own permissions and keeps sensitive values away from the AI model. No new AI vendor to approve.
Key takeaways
- The bottleneck in most data security programs isn't the data. It's access to answers: GRC, privacy and executive teams wait on the few people who know how to query the platform.
- Ask Sentra lets anyone with access to Sentra ask in plain English, from audit prep and privacy questions to board briefings and "what can our AI see?"
- Every answer shows how it was reached, so teams can check it and trust it.
- It works under each user's own permissions and keeps sensitive values away from the AI model, so organizations that can't connect ChatGPT or Copilot to security data can still put AI to work on it.
The answer is in the platform. Most people can't reach it.
In most organizations, a GRC lead's "are we exposed?" becomes a request to the one analyst who knows the right page, the right filters and the right export. Getting to the answer depended on who was free.
The obvious fix, connecting ChatGPT, Copilot or Claude to the security platform, is one many organizations can't take. New AI tools face weeks of security, legal and privacy review, and many AI policies limit which assistants may touch internal systems.
Ask Sentra brings AI into the platform you already approved, under the controls you already have.
What is an AI assistant for data security?
An AI assistant for data security is a natural-language interface inside a data security platform. You ask a question, and it answers from your organization's own records (data stores, data assets, data classes, identities and access, issues, compliance posture and AI assets), not from general knowledge.
Five moments ‘Ask Sentra’ was built for
Who's asking | What they ask | What they get |
Compliance lead, the week before an audit | "Which open issues affect our PCI DSS posture, and in which data stores?" | Open issues mapped to the framework, grouped by data store |
Privacy team | "Which data stores hold EU customer PII and are publicly accessible?" | The matching data stores with account, data classes and exposure |
Analyst on call | "Explain this issue: what data is affected, and who can access it?" | The issue, the affected data and every identity with access, ready for follow-up questions |
CISO before a board meeting | "What should we fix first?" | A short summary of the highest-risk issues, each tied to its source |
AI governance committee | "Which AI assets are connected to data stores that hold PII?" | The AI assets Sentra discovered and the sensitive data they connect to |
Every answer is ready to share: export it as a report for the audit pack or the board meeting, or paste its tables straight into a spreadsheet.
AI your security team can say yes to
An AI assistant inside a data security platform is itself an AI agent with access to sensitive information, so Ask Sentra is built to the same standard Sentra applies to every AI system.
- It sees exactly what you can see. Every lookup runs with the signed-in user's own session, so roles and connector scoping apply exactly as they do in the Sentra UI.
- Sensitive values stay out of the model. Sample values, matched values and file contents are removed before anything reaches the model.
- Your region, no training on your data. Ask Sentra uses Anthropic's Claude on Amazon Bedrock, processed in your Sentra region (US or EU). AWS states that Bedrock doesn't use prompts or responses to train models (AWS documentation).
- No new AI vendor for your team. No AI client to install, no API key to manage and no separate AI contract.
The bottom line
The questions your security, privacy and compliance teams ask every week already have answers in Sentra. Ask Sentra lets everyone ask them, without waiting on an analyst or onboarding a new AI vendor. It's an AI assistant for data security that turns Sentra into a platform the whole organization can ask.
Ask Sentra is available now as an add-on. Already a Sentra customer? Ask your account team to turn it on. New to Sentra? Book a demo and ask it about your own data.
