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Discovery – Import into the Align environment targeted database schemas and LDAP user stores via Align Identification Agents |
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Data-Policy Element Classification – Classify and organize enterprise data assets, entities and actions for subsequent data-policy modeling |
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Data-Policy Development – Elaborate on data-policies and practices using pre-defined templates in structured, machine-readable English language, using point-and-click and drag-and-drop functionality |
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Flexible Policy Classification – Classify policies by geography, business process, organization, law or regulation, or by any other criteria |
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Expert System Policy and Practice Analysis – Provides automatic, real-time consistency analysis of policies and practices during policy model development and practice registration |
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Central Policy Repository – Data store for policies, practices and monitored data activities (captured through the Align Data-Policy Transaction Management module) provides both a central policy repository and a complete audit trail |
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Robust Reporting – Standard predefined reports, as well as custom report generation functionality for Policy Dashboards showing potential policy violations and pending requests, ad hoc and scheduled report generation. Web-based reporting |
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Instant Assessment – Immediate assessment, via expert system analysis, whether a data activity is policy compliant or non-compliant, with report of potential policies violated |
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Policy and Practice Analysis Report – Report based on a history of actual data transaction activities, showing gaps between policies and practices |
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Decision Support – Environment for ‘what if?’ analysis of impact of new policies or practices on historical data activities |
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Policy Versioning and Rule-based Switching – Policy version control with rule-based policy switching (e.g., useful for switching policies in emergency operations) |
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Open APIs – Facilitates integration with middleware and security infrastructure |
