Why we built this
Every organization shares documents externally. Contracts, reports, spreadsheets, proposals. Most of them contain information that should never leave the building.
The existing solutions either block shares entirely (killing productivity) or scan with basic keyword matching that misses everything contextual. Neither works. So employees find workarounds, IT loses visibility, and sensitive data leaks silently.
Dataguard was built to solve this differently. It reads every word of every document against your actual privacy regulations and company policies, then strips the sensitive content automatically before the share goes through. The document still gets sent, clean. The employee sees exactly what was removed and why. Every share is logged for audit.
No training, no blocked workflows, no exposure.
Sidian isn't a firewall or antivirus. It doesn't keep attackers out. It makes sure your own team never sends something private out by accident.
Make government-grade sharing risk prevention something any organization can switch on in minutes, not a project that takes months.
Government-grade by default
Built to the data-governance standard of government systems: every flow audited and defensible, not bolted on after the fact.
Your data stays yours
Files never leave your environment. No third-party AI, nothing stored, nothing used for training.
Defensible by design
Every flow audited, every access logged, every redaction tied to the rule that triggered it.
Meet the team

Ben Reichwein
Founder & CEO
Ben built Dataguard from the ground up, drawing on his background designing and delivering intelligent data systems for the Government of Canada. He worked in environments where every data flow was audited, every access logged, and every disclosure had to be defensible. That governance standard is what shapes how Dataguard works today: automated protection any organization can switch on in minutes.
Backed and supported by
Microsoft Partner
Official Microsoft for Startups partner
MaRS Discovery District
Toronto's leading innovation hub
Advisors & Investors
Industry leaders and believers in the vision
