In today’s globalized business landscape, data is a critical asset. However, they must still contend with the friction between provisioning data in real-time, and maintaining security and compliance. For companies dealing with sensitive defense-related information, the stakes are particularly high due to the non-negotiable need to ensure compliance with regulations like the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
This is where Immuta’s powerful policy engine comes into play. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Immuta’s fine-grained access controls help organizations achieve and maintain ITAR compliance, without sacrificing speed and performance.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a regulatory framework that dictates how defense-related articles and services are exported and imported. It applies to any person or organization that deals with defense-related items, regardless of location. All manufacturers, exporters, and brokers of defense articles, services, or related technical data must be ITAR compliant. As a result, more public sector agencies require their supply chain members to meet ITAR compliance standards.
Although ITAR compliance is necessary for national security and intelligence, it can present a complex set of challenges. Agencies and companies subject to ITAR must navigate legal ambiguity, strict data security and access control mandates, data sharing and monitoring across international borders, and the administrative burden of enforcing ITAR compliance throughout complex data environments.
Immuta helps overcome these challenges – without delaying data access or sharing – through a policy-based approach to data governance and access control. With Immuta, organizations are better able to ensure ITAR compliance using:
Because Immuta’s flexible policy engine allows organizations to create custom policies, they are better able to meet their specific compliance requirements at the speed and scale that the government requires.
Let’s explore a scenario in which ITAR Officers want to enable access to sensitive data for authorized users, and mask it from others. The officers leverage a tag hierarchy to set a default masking condition on any column with the tag “ITAR.” They do this by setting global policies that mask data based on a hierarchical metadata tag presence on the column. This ensures that as new data comes into the environment, it will only be accessible by exception, following zero trust frameworks.
As the ITAR Officers allow for exceptions based on the export license, they can build an additional action within the global policy to grant users with that specific attribute unmasked access to those tagged columns. All other consumers will continue to be restricted.
The ITAR Officers can manage these exceptions in a single global policy, allowing them to have a unified place to manage all exceptions, in addition to reporting on who has access to what export license and where that data is tagged.
With this flexible, dynamic policy in place, Immuta simplifies the ITAR compliance process, reduces risk by ensuring that only authorized users can access sensitive data, improves data governance with fine-grained controls, and bolsters operational efficiency through streamlined data access processes. This enables the secure flow of information across governmental bodies, so agencies are able to move faster and make informed decisions without delay.
ITAR compliance is a critical requirement for organizations dealing with sensitive defense-related data. Immuta’s policy-based approach provides a powerful solution for achieving and maintaining compliance. By simplifying access controls, reducing risk, and improving data governance, Immuta helps organizations meet their regulatory obligations while protecting valuable assets – including national security.
Learn more about how Immuta can help your organization achieve ITAR compliance. Schedule a call with our public sector team today.
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