Simplify CPS 230 & CPG 235 Compliance with Alation
Discover how Alation can help you strengthen your cybersecurity posture and safeguard sensitive data in line with APRA CPG 235 guidance.
Ensure Compliance & Risk Management with APRA's Compliance
APRA CPS 230 and CPG 235 ensure that financial institutions effectively manage operational and data risk, safeguarding data integrity, security, and compliance.
Alation helps you find CDEs across your enterprise, foster collaboration to build understanding, formalise governance to maintain regulatory alignment, and build trust in your data.
Achieve CPG 235 compliance and enable your teams to confidently deliver data and AI initiatives with trusted, well-governed data.
Data Architecture (27)
Alation centralises business definitions, lineage, and metadata and links them together to create a unified view of your data landscape. Ensure everyone understands how data is structured, managed, and flows through the organisation—supporting data integrity and compliance.
Business Lineage
Provide a clear, high-level view of how CDEs flow through the business with Alation business lineage. Helps stakeholders understand data usage, supporting better governance and decision-making.
Technical Lineage
Alation’s pre-built connectors capture column-level lineage, offering a detailed view of data flows and transformations. This feature helps track dependencies, identify data quality issues, and ensure transparency in data movement across systems.
Business and Metric Definitions Consistency
Alation centralises key business terms and metric definitions, making it easy to document and link them to data assets. Ensure consistent usage and understanding across teams, enabling accurate analysis and informed decision-making.
Classification by Criticality & Sensitivity (18)
Alation enables organisations to classify and tag data based on criticality and sensitivity, ensuring it is managed in alignment with APRA’s CPG 235 guidelines and by priority. Automated rules apply classifications to all assets, providing consistent protection and regulatory compliance.
Roles and Responsibilities (23)
With Alation, document definitions of key roles, like data owners, data stewards, and data consumers. Benefit from a collaborative environment where responsibilities can be clearly assigned and managed.
Clear Ownership and Stewardship
Use Alation to define roles and recognise responsibilities across data owners, stewards, and consumers. This clarity helps ensure that all data assets are managed effectively, fostering a strong foundation for data governance.
Foster Collaboration with Alation Anywhere
Alation Anywhere delivers trusted data and helpful context to popular tools like MS Teams, Slack, Excel, and Chrome. Ensure users can access, understand, and share trusted data wherever they work. Make data collaboration effortless.
Systemised & Formalised Approach (20)
Deliver relevant policy guidance with the impacted data to users, when they need it. By embedding data governance policies directly into the catalog, Alation supports a systematic and formalised approach to governance. Uplift data literacy and people-first compliance across the organisation.
Data Governance Framework
Ensure users naturally interact with governance standards when searching the catalog. Alation links data governance policies directly to data assets. This active approach uplifts data governance literacy by making policies accessible and understandable.
Policy and Standards Management
With Alation, you can easily document, manage, and enforce governance policies, linking them to data assets. Ensure users follow the right standards and consistent governance practices, aligned with APRA’s CPG 235 requirements.
Auditability (43) and Monitoring Progress (58)
Ensure compliance and visibility across your organisation. Alation enables continuous monitoring and auditability of data governance activities. By tracking data quality, risks, and controls, and leveraging custom reporting through Alation Analytics, you can maintain alignment with APRA’s CPG 235 guidelines while supporting effective issue identification.
Data Quality Monitoring
Ensure data meets quality standards with best-of-breed DQ and DO monitoring integrations. Share quality details with native DQ in Databricks, Snowflake, and other top tools. Overlay data quality health on lineage diagrams for a complete picture in Alation.
Risk and Control Tracking
Use flexible templates to capture risks and controls, and link them to related CDEs for a comprehensive view of governance. Our expert local team can guide you on configuring Alation to align with Australian standards like APRA CPG 235
Protect Sensitive Data with Centralised Governance
Strengthen compliance with APRA’s CPG 235 guidelines by centralising data governance, linking policies, and enabling effective risk management in Alation. Enhance data integrity, build operational resilience, and maintain stakeholder trust while ensuring alignment with data management standards.
Alation provides the platform and capability for stakeholders … to be able to search for the data they need, [and] have confidence in using that data for their business needs.
Alation plays a vital role in protecting our sensitive data. Adding the confidentiality classification to data in the catalog and linking the data to policies (e.g. personal data to the privacy policy) ensures that risk management and compliance is ‘front of mind’ and applied across all data life-cycle processes and practices.
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