Prescriptive paths

When creating a standard or rule, you select which asset(s) you want to protect and/or grant access to. By default, you can grant access to a data set, a data category, and a business process. Collibra Protect searches the knowledge graph, through relationships and/or intermediate assets, to find which set of physical data layer assets, such as columns and tables, this resolves.

The traversal of the knowledge graph is done through a set of prescriptive paths. For each type of asset, there is a set of prescriptive paths to traverse to the column assets. See the images below for more details.

Prescriptive path for data set

Prescriptive path for data category

Prescriptive path for business process