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Integrated Compliance & Policy
Integrated Compliance & Policy enables organizations to enforce regulatory and business controls across integrations by design. It supports requirements such as GDPR, SOC 2, and HIPAA by embedding access rules, usage constraints, and auditability directly into the integration layer.
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Overview
Integrated Compliance & Policy provides a centralized layer for enforcing regulatory, contractual, and business rules across APIs, data flows, and partner integrations. It ensures that access, usage, and data handling policies are applied consistently, regardless of where integrations originate or terminate. By embedding compliance controls directly into the integration layer, organizations reduce risk while maintaining operational flexibility.
What Problem It Solves
As integrations scale across organizations, ensuring consistent compliance becomes complex and fragmented. Policies are often enforced inconsistently across systems, making it difficult to manage access, track usage, and demonstrate accountability. This creates risk, operational overhead, and compliance gaps as regulatory requirements increase.
What Problem Integrated Compliance & Policy solves
Compliance Scope & Coverage
This service applies common technical compliance controls across integrations to support widely adopted regulatory and governance frameworks.
GDPR-aligned data access, usage, and protection controls
SOC 2–oriented security, monitoring, and audit practices
HIPAA-aware access restrictions for sensitive data flows
Business and contractual policy enforcement across integrations
Core Capabilities
These capabilities define how compliance and policy controls are applied consistently across the integration platform.
Centralized policy definition and enforcement
Access rules and usage constraints across APIs and data flows
Audit logging and traceability for compliance evidence
Policy application across partners, clients, and systems
Consistent enforcement without custom integration logic
How It Works
Integrated Compliance & Policy embeds compliance controls directly into the integration flow. Policies are defined once and consistently enforced as requests move across APIs, data flows, and partner integrations, ensuring governed access by design.
How Integrated Compliance & Policy Works
Policy Enforcement Model
Policies are centrally defined and applied uniformly across partners, clients, and systems.
Access rules based on identity, role, and context
Usage constraints enforced at runtime
Consistent behavior across all integrations
Separation between policy definition and enforcement
Policy Enforcement Model
Auditability & Traceability
All integration activity is recorded to support visibility, accountability, and compliance evidence.
Centralized audit logs across integrations
Traceability of access and policy decisions
Visibility into data access and usage patterns
Support for audits and compliance reviews
User Experience & Configuration
Compliance and policy controls are managed through an intuitive, UI-first configuration experience.
Centralized policy configuration
Low-code / no-code rule management
Clear visibility into applied controls
Easy updates without modifying integrations
Use Cases
These use cases show how Integrated Compliance & Policy is applied to real-world integration scenarios.
Governed Partner Access Enforce consistent access rules when multiple partners interact with shared APIs and data.
Controlled Data Sharing Apply usage and access policies to regulate how sensitive data is shared across organizations.
Audit-Ready Integrations Maintain traceability and evidence for compliance reviews and audits.
Policy Enforcement Across Ecosystems Apply the same policies across internal systems, vendors, and clients without duplication.
What’s Included in the MVP
The MVP delivers foundational compliance and policy capabilities to demonstrate governed integrations.
Centralized policy definition and enforcement
Access and usage controls across integrations
Audit logging and traceability
UI-first policy configuration
Basic support for common regulatory controls
Additional MVP capabilities, including schema normalization, intelligent mapping, and the unified API, are described in their respective service sections.
What’s Coming Next
Future phases will extend compliance capabilities with deeper automation and regulatory coverage.