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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Watson Studio
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 1, 2017

Restrict amount of data that can be returned through gateway to DSX

Our deployment architecture for WDP has the experience layer hosted in the 6 key IBM Cloud Regions with compute (Analytics Engine) and storage (COS) able to be deployed to many more locations to support data residency requirements. Even within those key Regions the experience layer runs in a less-isolated compute environment than what we envision for IAE.

When presented with this architecture some clients are asking whether there are controls in place to prevent a DSX user from leveraging the interactive gateway to pull large amounts of data out of the isolated environment and bypass controls that the company would otherwise have in place. I don't believe we have any such controls today.

Specific client example motivating this idea is Bank of Ireland.

  • Guest
    Dec 14, 2018

    Hey Adam, can you elaborate on this requirement? How does Data Catalog figure in your assessment? Is the main idea, for example, that we don't have controls to stop a user from moving data outside of Europe if the user is, say, working in a Notebook and writes some code to send this data to a database hosted elsewhere?