🔐 Governed Operations

Overview

Governed Operations provides enterprise-grade security and compliance for streaming architectures. Define policies once and enforce them consistently across all streaming resources—from development environments to production clusters across multiple regions.

Key Capabilities

Fine-grained Access Controls

Control who can produce, consume, and administer streaming resources with attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies.

• Topic-level permissions — Grant read, write, or admin access per topic or topic pattern
• Consumer group isolation — Ensure teams can only access their designated consumer groups
• Schema registry ACLs — Control who can register, evolve, or deprecate schemas
• Transactional boundaries — Restrict exactly-once semantics to authorized producers

Identity Integration

Integrate with your existing identity providers for seamless authentication and authorization.

• SAML 2.0 and OIDC support
• Active Directory and LDAP integration
• Service account management with automatic credential rotation
• mTLS for service-to-service authentication

Payload Classification & Masking

Automatically detect and protect sensitive data flowing through your streaming pipelines.

• Automatic PII detection — ML-powered identification of names, emails, SSNs, credit cards, and more
• Dynamic masking — Apply field-level masking based on consumer permissions
• Tokenization — Replace sensitive values with reversible tokens for downstream processing
• Encryption at rest and in transit — End-to-end encryption with customer-managed keys

Cross-region Data Residency Guardrails

Ensure data stays where regulations require with automated data residency enforcement.

• Geo-fencing policies — Define which regions can store specific data types
• Replication controls — Prevent cross-border data replication for regulated topics
• Data sovereignty reporting — Audit trails proving data residency compliance
• Automatic routing — Route messages to appropriate regions based on content

Compliance & Audit

Meet regulatory requirements with comprehensive audit logging and compliance reporting.

Audit Logging

• Complete audit trail of all administrative actions
• Message-level access logging (optional)
• Tamper-evident log storage with cryptographic verification
• Long-term retention with configurable lifecycle policies

Compliance Frameworks

Pre-built policy templates for common compliance requirements:

• GDPR — Data subject access requests, right to deletion, consent tracking
• HIPAA — PHI protection, access controls, audit requirements
• PCI-DSS — Cardholder data protection, network segmentation
• SOC 2 — Security, availability, and confidentiality controls
• CCPA — California consumer privacy requirements

Network Security

Secure connectivity for streaming across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Private endpoints — Connect via AWS PrivateLink, Azure Private Link, or GCP Private Service Connect
• VPC peering — Direct, low-latency connectivity to your VPCs
• IP allowlisting — Restrict access to known IP ranges
• Zero-trust networking — Service mesh integration with Istio and Linkerd

Policy Management

Define, version, and deploy policies as code with full GitOps support.

• Policy-as-code with OPA (Open Policy Agent) integration
• Version-controlled policy definitions
• Policy simulation and testing before deployment
• Centralized policy dashboard with compliance status

Getting Started

Our security team can help you design a governance strategy that meets your compliance requirements while enabling developer velocity.