Author Policy How-to Guide
3 - Author policy how-to guide
Authoring global data policies to automate access controls involves using the data metadata and user metadata in Immuta to identify the data that should be governed and the users the policy should target.
This how-to guide demonstrates how to author a global data policy in Immuta to automate access decisions.
For detailed explanations and examples of how to author data policies, see the Author policy guide.
Requirements
Immuta permission: GOVERNANCE
global permission, Manage Policies
domain permission, or own the data source
Prerequisites
Understand your metadata
How you author policies is dictated by how your user and data metadata is organized to grant access. For this use case, the fact-based (ABAC) method is recommended. Organizations using this method use to determine access, and data sources are tagged at the column and table level.
Author a data policy
Next steps
Learn
Explore this use case to learn more about using Immuta to automate data access control decisions.
Automate data access control decisions: This section focuses on how to use Immuta to automate decisions that determine whether users should have access to data objects.
Implement
Follow these guides to test your policies and use Immuta to enforce fine-grained access controls.
Optionally test and deploy policy.
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