Abstract: Various embodiments of a hierarchical system or method of identifying sensitive content in data is described. In some embodiments, sensitive data classifiers local to a data storage system can analyze a plurality of data items and classify at least some data items as potentially containing sensitive data. The sensitive data classifiers can provide the classified data items to a separate sensitive data discovery component. The sensitive data discovery component can, in some embodiments, obtain the classified data items, perform a sensitive data location analysis on the classified data items to identify a location of sensitive data within some of the classified data items, and generate location information for the sensitive data within the data items containing sensitive data. The sensitive data discovery component can provide to a destination this information, in some embodiments, where the destination might redact, tokenize, highlight, or perform other actions on the located sensitive data.

Abstract: Ordering data objects. The method includes, for each object to be ordered into a set of ordered objects, determining whether the object has static dependencies or dynamic dependencies. A dynamic object is an object that may have circular dependencies. For each static object with only static dependencies, the objects are ordered according to a pre-determined type order. The method further includes, for one or more dynamic objects with dynamic possibly circular dependencies, resolving the circular dependencies such that the dynamic objects can be ordered with the static objects.