# Govern - [Use Cases](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure.md): Select your Govern use case to help you build access controls for your organization - [Automate Data Access Control Decisions](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/automate-data-access-control-decisions.md): Learn how Immuta automates access decisions based on user and data metadata - [Managing User Metadata](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/automate-data-access-control-decisions/managing-user-metadata.md): Understand how to organize your user metadata for subscription policies - [Manage User Metadata How-to Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/automate-data-access-control-decisions/managing-user-metadata/manage-user-metadata-how-to-guide.md): Organize your user metadata for use in subscription policies - [Managing Data Metadata](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/automate-data-access-control-decisions/managing-data-metadata.md): Understand how to organize your data metadata for subscription policies - [Manage Data Metadata How-to Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/automate-data-access-control-decisions/managing-data-metadata/manage-data-metadata-how-to-guide.md): Organize your data metadata for use in subscription policies - [Author Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/automate-data-access-control-decisions/author-policy.md): Understand how to use metadata in Immuta subscription policies - [Author Policy How-to Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/automate-data-access-control-decisions/author-policy/author-policy-how-to-guide.md): Build a subscription policy using user and data metadata to automate access control decisions - [Compliantly Open More Sensitive Data for ML and Analytics](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/compliantly-open-more-sensitive-data-for-ml-and-analytics.md): Learn how Immuta uses granular access controls to safely open more data to support machine learning and analytics needs - [Managing User Metadata](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/compliantly-open-more-sensitive-data-for-ml-and-analytics/open-managing-user-metadata.md): Understand how to organize your user metadata for data policies - [Manage User Metadata How-to Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/compliantly-open-more-sensitive-data-for-ml-and-analytics/open-managing-user-metadata/manage-user-metadata-how-to-guide.md): Organize your user metadata for use in data policies - [Managing Data Metadata](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/compliantly-open-more-sensitive-data-for-ml-and-analytics/open-managing-data-metadata.md): Understand how to organize your data metadata for data policies - [Manage Data Metadata How-to Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/compliantly-open-more-sensitive-data-for-ml-and-analytics/open-managing-data-metadata/manage-data-metadata-how-to-guide.md): Organize your data metadata for use in data policies - [Author Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/compliantly-open-more-sensitive-data-for-ml-and-analytics/open-author-policy.md): Understand how to use metadata in Immuta data policies - [Author Policy How-to Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/compliantly-open-more-sensitive-data-for-ml-and-analytics/open-author-policy/author-policy-how-to-guide.md): Build a data policy using user and data metadata to automate access control decisions - [Test and Deploy Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/getting-started-with-secure/test-and-deploy-policy.md): Test policies on data in a cloned test database before deploying policies to production data - [Author Policies for Data Access Control](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data.md): Learn how Immuta enforces access controls for your users - [Introduction](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/secure-introduction.md): Understand the governance principles behind the design of Immuta - [Scalability and Evolvability](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/secure-introduction/scalability-and-evolvability.md): Understand how attribute-based access control compares to role-based access control - [Understandability](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/secure-introduction/understandability.md): Understand the importance of clear, comprehensible policy enforcement - [Distributed Stewardship](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/secure-introduction/distributed-stewardship.md): Understand the importance of separation of duties - [Consistency](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/secure-introduction/consistency.md): Understand the importance of consistent policy enforcement across platforms - [Availability of Data](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/secure-introduction/availability-of-data.md): Understand how anonymization techniques can safely make more data available for users - [Policies](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure.md): Learn about the policy types available in Immuta to enforce access controls - [Subscription Policies](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents.md): Learn how to manage table-level access with subscription policies - [How-to Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/how-to-guides.md) - [Author a Subscription Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/how-to-guides/subscription-policy-tutorial.md): Build a subscription policy to grant table-level access to users - [Author an ABAC Subscription Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/how-to-guides/abac-subscription-policy.md): Build a subscription policy that enforces access controls based on users' groups or attributes - [Subscription Policies Advanced DSL Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/how-to-guides/advanced-dsl-policies.md) - [Author a Restricted Subscription Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/how-to-guides/restricted-subscription-policies.md): Build a subscription policy that applies only to data sources you own - [Reference Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/reference-guides.md) - [Subscription Policies Reference Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/reference-guides/subscription-policies.md): Learn how grant and guardrail subscription policies protect and grant access to data - [Subscription Policy Access Types](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/reference-guides/subscription-access-types.md): Learn what data platforms support read and write access subscription policies - [Advanced DSL Policy Builder Functions and Variables](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/reference-guides/advanced-special-functions.md): Learn about the definitions and behavior of the variables and functions supported in the advanced DSL policy builder - [Data Policies](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies.md): Learn how to manage row-, column, and cell-level access with data policies - [How-to Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/how-to-guides.md) - [Author a Masking Data Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/how-to-guides/data-policy-tutorial.md): Build a policy that masks columns for users - [Author a Minimization Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/how-to-guides/minimization-tutorial.md): Build a policy that limits the amount of data returned for users - [Author a Purpose-Based Restriction Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/how-to-guides/purpose-tutorial.md): Build a policy that limits access to a specific purpose - [Author a Restricted Data Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/how-to-guides/restricted-data-policies.md): Build a data policy that only applies to data sources you own - [Author a Reveal Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/how-to-guides/author-a-reveal-policy.md): Build a policy that automatically grants exceptions to masking policies - [Author a Row-Level Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/how-to-guides/row-redaction-tutorial.md): Build a policy that limits rows visible to users - [Author a Time-Based Restriction Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/how-to-guides/time-based-tutorial.md): Build a policy that returns data from a specified period of time - [Policy Certifications and Diffs](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/how-to-guides/manage-policies-per-data-source.md): Create certifications for global policies, certify a policy, and view changes made to a data source's policy - [Reference Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/reference-guides.md) - [Data Policies Reference Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/reference-guides/data-policies.md): Learn how protect policies and reveal policies enforce access controls - [Masking Policies](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/reference-guides/masking-matrix-functions.md): Learn about the types of masking policies Immuta supports - [Orchestrated Masking Policies](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/reference-guides/masking-matrix-functions/orchestrated-masking-policies.md) - [Row-Level Policies](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/reference-guides/row-redaction-explained.md): Learn how row-level policies limit what data users are allowed to see once they are granted access to a data source - [Limit to Purpose Policies](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/reference-guides/limit-to-purpose-policies.md): Learn how purpose policies limit users' access to data - [Custom WHERE Clause Functions](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/reference-guides/custom-where-clause-functions.md): Learn about the custom WHERE clause functions Immuta supports - [Lookup Tables](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/data-policies/reference-guides/lookup-tables.md): Learn how lookup tables can be used to reference user metadata - [Clone, Activate, or Stage a Policy](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/clone-activate-stage.md): Clone and manage the status of existing global policies - [Data Engineering with Limited Policy Downtime](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/dbt-transform-workflow.md): Minimize policy downtime as you execute transforms using dbt or other transform tools - [Projects and Purpose-Based Access Control](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control.md) - [Projects and Purpose Controls](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index.md) - [Getting Started](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/getting-started.md): Purpose-based access control - [How-to Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/how-to-guides.md) - [Create a Project](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/how-to-guides/create-project-tutorial.md) - [Create and Manage Purposes](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/how-to-guides/purposes-tutorial.md) - [Project Management](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/how-to-guides/project-management.md) - [Manage Projects and Project Settings](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/how-to-guides/project-management/manage-projects.md) - [Manage Project Data Sources](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/how-to-guides/project-management/manage-data-sources.md) - [Manage Project Members](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/how-to-guides/project-management/manage-members.md) - [Reference Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/reference-guides.md) - [Projects and Purposes](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/reference-guides/projects.md) - [Concept Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/concept-guide.md) - [Why Use Purposes?](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/purpose-index/concept-guide/purposes-explained.md) - [Equalized Access](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/equalized-access.md) - [Manage Project Equalization How-to Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/equalized-access/manage-equalization.md) - [Equalized Access Reference Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/equalized-access/equalization.md): Project equalization - [Why Use Project Equalization?](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/equalized-access/equalization-explained.md) - [Masked Joins](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/masked-joins.md) - [Enable Masked Joins How-to Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/masked-joins/enable-masked-joins.md) - [Why Use Masked Joins?](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/masked-joins/masked-joins-explained.md) - [Writing to Projects](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/write-index.md) - [How-to Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/write-index/how-to-guides.md) - [Reference Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/write-index/reference-guides.md) - [Project UDFs (Databricks)](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/projects-and-purpose-based-access-control/write-index/reference-guides/project-udfs.md) - [Data Consumers](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers.md): Learn how to subscribe to data sources, query data, and impersonate Immuta users - [Subscribe to a Data Source](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/subscribe-to-data-source.md): Subscribe, view, and search for data sources - [Query Data](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/query-data.md) - [Querying Snowflake Data](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/query-data/snowflake.md): Query Immuta-protected data in Snowflake - [Querying Databricks Data](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/query-data/databricks.md): Query Immuta-protected data in Databricks - [Querying Starburst (Trino) Data](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/query-data/trino.md): Query Immuta-protected data in Starburst or Trino - [Querying Databricks SQL Data](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/query-data/databricks-sql.md): Query Immuta-protected data in Databricks SQL - [Querying Redshift Spectrum Data](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/query-data/querying-redshift-spectrum-data.md): Query Immuta-protected data in Redshift Spectrum - [Querying Azure Synapse Analytics Data](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/query-data/synapse.md): Query Immuta-protected data in Azure Synapse Analytics - [Subscribe to Projects](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/project-member-guide.md): Subscribe to a project, add data sources to a project, or switch project contexts - [Impersonate a User](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/secure-your-data/data-consumers/user-impersonation.md): Impersonate another Immuta user - [Observe Access and Activity](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data.md): Learn how Immuta monitors your environment - [Introduction](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/detect-introduction.md): Understand the challenges involved in detecting internal data security risks - [Access Summary Export](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/access-summary-export.md) - [Set Up Access Summary Export](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/access-summary-export/set-up-access-summary-export.md) - [Latest Access Summary Export Schema Reference Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/access-summary-export/latest-access-summary-export-schema-reference-guide.md) - [PrPr 1 - Access Summary Export Schema](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/access-summary-export/latest-access-summary-export-schema-reference-guide/access-summary-export-schema-reference-guide.md) - [Early Access Data Model Changes](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/access-summary-export/early-access-data-model-changes.md) - [Audit](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit.md): Learn about the audit capabilities Immuta provides - [How-to Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/how-to-guides.md) - [Export Audit Logs to Amazon S3](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/how-to-guides/enable-uam.md): Export your Immuta audit logs to an Amazon S3 bucket - [Export Audit Logs to ADLS](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/how-to-guides/export-adls.md): Export your Immuta audit logs to your ADLS Gen2 storage account - [Use Immuta Audit](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/how-to-guides/use-immuta-audit.md): Filter and manually ingest audit events - [Run Governance Reports](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/how-to-guides/governor-guide.md): Build Immuta governance reports to view user activity across Immuta - [Reference Guides](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides.md) - [Universal Audit Model (UAM)](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/index.md): Learn about the components of the universal audit model and what platforms support query audit - [UAM Schema Reference Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/index/uam-schema.md): Understand audit event schemas - [Query Audit Logs](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/query-audit-logs.md) - [Snowflake Query Audit Logs](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/query-audit-logs/snowflake.md): Learn about the audit schema for Snowflake queries - [Databricks Unity Catalog Query Audit Logs](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/query-audit-logs/databricks-uc.md): Learn about the audit schema for Databricks Unity Catalog queries - [Databricks Spark Query Audit Logs](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/query-audit-logs/databricks.md): Learn about the audit schema for Databricks Spark queries - [Starburst (Trino) Query Audit Logs](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/query-audit-logs/trino.md): Learn about the audit schema for Starburst and Trino queries - [Audit Export GraphQL Reference Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/immuta-audit-export-to-s3-and-adls-gen2-graphql-reference-guide.md): Use GraphQL to manage exporting your audit logs to Amazon S3 and ADLS Gen2 - [Unknown Users in Audit Logs](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/unknown-user.md): Identify unknown users in query audit logs for Databricks Unity Catalog - [Governance Report Types](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/audit/reference-guides/reports.md): Understand the report types available for viewing user activity across Immuta - [Dashboards](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/detection.md): Learn about audit dashboards - [Use the Audit Dashboards How-To Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/detection/use-dashboards.md): Visualize the data being queried by your users with audit dashboards - [Audit Dashboards Reference Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/detection/detect-concept.md): Learn about the design and capabilities of audit dashboards - [Monitors](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/monitors.md) - [Manage Monitors and Observations](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/monitors/create-monitor.md) - [Monitors Reference Guide](https://documentation.immuta.com/SaaS/govern/detect-your-data/monitors/index.md) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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