Quick Start

This guide walks you through connecting your first cloud storage provider and running your first scan. You will go from initial login to actionable findings in under 10 minutes.

Step 1: Access Your Provisioned Tenant

Your organization’s Slim.io tenant is provisioned by our team. Once your tenant is ready, you will receive onboarding credentials from your account manager.

1. Navigate to your organization’s Slim.io dashboard URL (e.g., https://slim.io/dash/).
2. Log in using the credentials provided during onboarding, or via your organization’s SSO provider if configured.

Step 2: Connect Your First Cloud Provider

From the Customer Dashboard sidebar, navigate to Connectors and click Add Connector.

For AWS S3

1. Select Amazon Web Services as the provider.
2. Enter your AWS Account ID and the target S3 bucket region.
3. Copy the generated IAM Role trust policy.
4. In the AWS Console, create a new IAM Role with the provided trust policy and attach the required S3 read permissions.
5. Paste the Role ARN back into Slim.io and click Test Connection.

For Google Cloud Storage

1. Select Google Cloud Platform as the provider.
2. Follow the prompts to configure Workload Identity Federation (WIF).
3. Create a service account in your GCP project with Storage Object Viewer permissions.
4. Enter the service account email and project ID, then click Test Connection.

For Azure Blob Storage

1. Select Microsoft Azure as the provider.
2. Create a Service Principal in your Azure Active Directory.
3. Grant the Service Principal Storage Blob Data Reader access on the target storage account.
4. Enter the Tenant ID, Client ID, Client Secret, and Storage Account name.
5. Click Test Connection.

Step 3: Run Your First Scan

Once the connector shows a Connected status:

1. Click the Scan button next to the connector, or navigate to Scans in the sidebar.
2. Select the connector you just created.
3. Choose Full Scan for the initial run (subsequent scans can be incremental).
4. Click Start Scan.

The scan will process files in parallel using Slim.io’s distributed scanning engine. Progress is visible in real time on the Scan Monitor page.

Step 4: Review Findings

After the scan completes:

1. Navigate to Data Catalog to see all discovered files with sensitive data.
2. Click any file to view detailed findings — each PII match includes the category, confidence score, and location within the file.
3. Use the Investigation view to explore findings by category (SSN, email, credit card, etc.) or by risk severity.

Next Steps

• Configure additional connectors for other cloud providers or buckets
• Set up classifiers to customize detection rules for your data
• Create governance policies to automate responses to findings
• Explore the API to integrate scan results into your security workflows