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AI-Ready Data: Pillar 3

Compliance Can't Be an Afterthought

By the time data reaches your warehouse, it's already crossed borders and touched systems it shouldn't have. Enforce rules at the source.

What Is Data Governance?

Enforcing compliance rules, access controls, and regulatory requirements at data creation - not after data has moved, been copied, and spread across your infrastructure.

The Three Parts of Governance

Based on Gartner's AI-Ready Data framework

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Compliance & Stewardship

GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA impose strict requirements on how data can be collected, stored, and processed.

Expanso enforces compliance at the source. PII masked before data moves. Data sovereignty keeps data in-region. Automatic, not manual.

  • PII masking at origination
  • Data sovereignty enforcement
  • Regulatory policy automation
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Controlled Distribution

Different consumers need different views. Raw data for auditors, anonymized for analytics, aggregates for dashboards.

Expanso routes different representations to different destinations. Raw to secure archives, sanitized to warehouses, aggregates to analytics. You control what goes where.

  • Policy-based routing
  • Multiple output formats
  • Purpose-based access
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AI Fairness

AI models trained on biased data produce biased results. Training data must be representative.

Expanso filters and balances training data at the source, helping ensure models train on representative datasets.

  • Training data sampling
  • Representation checks
  • Bias detection flags

Problems This Solves

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Compliance Violations During Transit

Without

Data with PII crosses borders or enters wrong systems. GDPR violation notices arrive. Legal involved. Fines follow.

With Expanso

Compliance enforced at origination. PII masked before movement. Sovereignty rules prevent crossings. Violations prevented.

Compliance at source
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No Control After Data Moves

Without

Once data reaches the warehouse, control is hard. Data gets copied, exported, shared. You lose visibility.

With Expanso

Different consumers get different views. Analytics gets anonymized. Auditors get raw in secure environments. Controlled distribution.

Controlled distribution
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Governance Is Manual and Reactive

Without

Compliance teams review after the fact. Violations discovered during audits. Remediation expensive and embarrassing.

With Expanso

Governance rules enforced automatically at every source. Compliance continuous, not periodic. Audits become non-events.

Automated enforcement

How It Works

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Define Governance Policies

PII handling, sovereignty rules, access controls - all in declarative config. Apply consistently across sources.

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Enforce at Origination

Every piece of data evaluated against governance rules at the source. Non-compliant data masked, blocked, or routed appropriately.

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Prove Compliance

Every governance action logged immutably. Show auditors exactly what happened, when, why. Complete trail.

Governance in Practice

Healthcare

Healthcare: HIPAA at the Device

Patient identifiers masked before data leaves medical devices. PHI never enters general systems raw. Compliance is architectural.

HIPAA built into data flow
Financial Services

Financial Services: Data Sovereignty

EU customer data stays in EU. Only aggregated, anonymized data crosses borders. GDPR enforced automatically.

Automated sovereignty
Public Sector

Government: Classification Enforcement

Classification rules enforced at source. Sensitive data routed to appropriate systems. Unauthorized access prevented architecturally.

Classification at origination

Make Compliance Automatic