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Ensighten was acquired by CHEQ (Aug 2022)— see CHEQ for current status.
Ensighten

Ensighten

Tag Management & Web Securityensighten.com

Ensighten gives enterprises real-time visibility and control over all third-party scripts and marketing tags on their digital properties, preventing data leakage and ensuring continuous privacy compliance without sacrificing marketing agility.

Last updated Jun 23, 2026 by ATDb automated enrichment

Founded
2009
HQ
San Jose, California, United States
Parent
Connections
23

At a glance

Employees
51-200
Funding
$60M
Revenue
$10M-$50M
19integrations2corporate family2acquisitions

About

A pioneer in enterprise tag management that has repositioned as a client-side web security and privacy compliance platform, now operating under CHEQ's go-to-market security umbrella.

Ensighten is a pioneering enterprise tag management and web security company that has evolved from its roots as a tag management system (TMS) into a comprehensive client-side security and privacy compliance platform. Originally founded to help enterprises manage the proliferation of marketing tags and pixels across their digital properties, Ensighten expanded its mission to address the growing risks posed by third-party scripts, data leakage, and regulatory requirements such as GDPR and CCPA. Its platform enables organizations to gain visibility and control over all JavaScript running on their websites, preventing unauthorized data collection and enforcing consent policies in real time. Ensighten is now part of CHEQ, the go-to-market security company, which acquired Ensighten to strengthen its client-side protection and privacy compliance capabilities. Under CHEQ's ownership, Ensighten continues to operate as a distinct product offering, extending CHEQ's portfolio with enterprise-grade tag governance and data privacy enforcement tools. Ensighten's core technology centers on its Omnibug-powered tag auditing, client-side data loss prevention (DLP), and consent management capabilities. The platform sits between a brand's website and the third-party vendors loading scripts on it, acting as a policy enforcement layer that ensures only authorized technologies execute and only permissioned data is shared. This positions Ensighten squarely at the intersection of AdTech governance, MarTech management, and cybersecurity — a niche that has grown significantly in importance as regulators and consumers demand greater transparency over digital data flows. In the competitive landscape, Ensighten competes with tag management systems like Google Tag Manager and Tealium, as well as client-side security specialists such as PerimeterX and Source Defense. Its differentiation lies in combining enterprise-grade tag management with proactive security and compliance enforcement, making it particularly attractive to large enterprises in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and retail. The acquisition by CHEQ further reinforces Ensighten's position as a security-first solution in the marketing technology governance space.

Business model

SaaS

Target market

Enterprise

What they offer

  • Ensighten Privacy

    Consent management and data privacy enforcement platform that ensures only consented data is collected and shared with third-party vendors, supporting GDPR, CCPA, and other global privacy regulations.

  • Ensighten Protect

    Client-side security solution that monitors and controls all JavaScript executing on a website, preventing unauthorized data exfiltration, Magecart attacks, and rogue tag behavior.

  • Ensighten Manage

    Enterprise tag management system (TMS) that enables marketing and IT teams to deploy, manage, and govern marketing and analytics tags across digital properties without requiring code deployments.

  • Ensighten Audit

    Automated tag auditing and data governance tool that provides continuous visibility into what data is being collected and shared by all tags and scripts on a site.

  • Ensighten Analytics

    First-party data collection and analytics capability that captures behavioral data independently of third-party tools, ensuring data fidelity and ownership.

Key features

Real-time client-side script monitoring and enforcementConsent management and privacy policy enforcementTag governance and lifecycle managementData loss prevention (DLP) for web propertiesAutomated tag auditing and compliance reportingMagecart and formjacking attack preventionFirst-party data collectionRole-based access controls for tag managementCross-domain and multi-property tag managementIntegration with major consent management platforms

Use cases

Enforcing GDPR and CCPA consent requirements across digital propertiesPreventing unauthorized third-party data collection and Magecart attacksCentralizing tag management across large, complex enterprise web estatesAuditing marketing technology stacks for compliance and data governanceProtecting checkout and form pages from script-based data theftManaging first-party data collection strategies in a cookieless world

Customer segments

Large enterprise brands in regulated industriesFinancial services and banking institutionsHealthcare and pharmaceutical companiesRetail and e-commerce enterprisesMedia and publishing companiesTravel and hospitality brands

Tech & specs

Technology stack

JavaScript / client-side script execution engineCloud-based tag delivery network (CDN)REST APIs for integration and managementMachine learning for anomaly detection in script behaviorReal-time data stream processing

Security & compliance

GDPRCCPAPCI DSSSOC 2ISO 27001ePrivacy Directive

Deployment

CloudHybrid

API

Yes

Corporate history
  1. 2009 · Founded
  2. 2014Absorbed TagMan3 sources
  3. 2022Acquired by CHEQ
    Still operating as part of CHEQ
Connection details
See integrations with Ensighten (19) See acquisitions by Ensighten (1)

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