ActiveNav, a leading provider of data discovery and governance solutions for the law firms and corporate legal teams, today announced its recognition in three 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ reports:
Hype Cycle for Backup and Data Protection Technologies, 2025
Hype Cycle for Data Security Technologies, 2025
Hype Cycle for Privacy, 2025
This recognition highlights ActiveNav’s role in helping legal, IT, and information governance teams address one of today’s most urgent challenges—organizing, protecting, and preparing unstructured data for secure use and responsible AI enablement.
“Law firms and corporate legal teams are under pressure to balance innovation with defensibility, but they're currently stuck with one-size-fits-none options,” said Peter Baumann, CEO of ActiveNav. “Being recognized across three Gartner Hype Cycles underscores our commitment to providing a solution designed for the legal industry's unique needs and giving them the clarity and control to reduce risk, lower costs, and responsibly adopt AI.”
The inclusion across multiple Hype Cycles reflects the growing market need for integrated data discovery and governance tools that help organizations:
Secure and streamline data protection by identifying redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information.
Simplify privacy compliance with automated detection, classification, and retention aligned with modern privacy regulations—covering nearly 75% of the world’s population as of 2025
According to Gartner, “To implement a consistent and holistic privacy program, organizations require two sets of capabilities — privacy management and data-centric control. Some organizations opt to tackle data issues first: discovery, classification, authorization and access controls, and operationalizing end of life.¹”
This observation reflects the growing consensus across the legal and compliance sectors that managing unstructured data is the foundation for both privacy and governance maturity. ActiveNav Cloud enables organizations to take that first, practical step—unifying discovery, classification, and defensible lifecycle management to create a reliable base for privacy compliance and AI readiness.
¹Gartner, Hype Cycle for Legal, Risk, Compliance and Audit Technologies, 2025, Weston Wicks, Devanshu Mehrotra, Ron Friedmann, Kerrie McDonald, Joel Backaler
Gartner, Hype Cycle for Backup and Data Protection Technologies, 2025, Michael Hoeck, July, 9, 2025
Gartner, Hype Cycle for Data Security Technologies, 2025, Andrew Bales, July 10, 2025
Gartner, Hype Cycle for Privacy, 2025, Stefan Dumitrescu, Bernard Woo, July 28, 2025
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