Cloud Data Policy Orchestration for Real-Time Compliance Remediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data governance systems lack centralized capabilities to orchestrate, manage, and monitor data policies and data lifecycle actions, leading to inadequate policy compliance and reporting, especially in cloud environments.
Innovation Solution
Implement a system with a control plane that executes computer-coded policies in a cloud environment, enabling dynamic and real-time data governance by associating data assets with policies, monitoring for compliance, and performing remediation actions in response to violations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data governance policies are implemented in cloud environments, then data compliance and security are improved, but the complexity of managing and monitoring these policies increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized policy management service as an intermediary between data producers/consumers and governance policies. This service orchestrates policy enforcement, monitoring, and remediation actions across distributed cloud resources, simplifying management complexity while maintaining compliance reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous monitoring and feedback loops that track policy compliance status in real-time. When violations are detected, the system automatically triggers remediation actions and updates compliance status, creating a closed-loop control system that maintains reliability without requiring manual intervention
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual policy enforcement and monitoring is performed, then flexibility in handling edge cases is improved, but the time and effort required increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated remediation capabilities where the system self-corrects policy violations without human intervention. The policy management service automatically detects compliance failures, determines appropriate remediation actions, and executes them, eliminating manual effort while maintaining adaptability through configurable remediation strategies
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures remediation actions and compliance rules in advance. When violations occur, pre-defined remediation workflows are automatically triggered, eliminating the need for manual decision-making and execution while maintaining flexibility through configurable policies
3Measurement precision
If centralized policy orchestration is implemented, then policy compliance monitoring is improved, but the system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs a universal policy management service that handles multiple policy types, enforcement mechanisms, and monitoring functions through a single centralized platform. This multi-functional approach improves compliance monitoring accuracy while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate systems by consolidating capabilities
Data Source
AI summary
A system and supporting method enable receipt of a computer-coded policy for execution in a control plane associated with a cloud environment to provide data governance in a data plane using one or more data assets of the cloud environment, where the one or more data assets are automatically associated to the computer-coded policy using a set of pre-determined rules associated with the computer-coded policy and using annotations associated with the one or more data assets, and where dynamic changes are to be performed with respect to the annotations based in part on real-time changes to the computer-coded policy to allow monitoring contents of the one or more data assets in accordance with the computer-coded policy and to perform a remediation action that is associated with the one or more data assets in response to a violation associated with the computer-coded policy.