About Data Access
Collibra Data Access simplifies how you manage data access controls across your organization. With Data Access, you can define access controls, such as who can access data objects (roles), how sensitive columns appear (column masks) to them, and which rows they can see (row filters). These access controls are automatically enforced in your underlying data sources, eliminating the need to manage isolated access controls separately in each of your data sources.
Data Access serves as a centralized governance layer, separating permission management from the technical complexities of the systems where your data resides. The access controls you define in Data Access are automatically translated into the specific technical access controls that are native to your data sources. This ensures faster access to data for data consumers, while maintaining consistent data protection, regardless of the underlying database technology.
Why use Data Access
- Unified data access management: Manage access for an individual user regardless of the account or platform they use to query data. This allows you to govern the person, rather than managing fragmented access controls across multiple external systems.
- Flexible access governance workflows: Streamline how you grant access to data products. You can make data publicly available, enable self-service requests, or automate access through birth-right policies that are based on tags such as department, region, or group membership.
- Fine-grained security: Enforce strict compliance using column masking and row filtering. These features restrict data visibility based on the legal purpose of the data product or the specific context of the user, such as their department or geographic location.
- Inbound and outbound flow: Keep your governance and technical environments in sync. Data Access pushes your governance rules to your external systems. Additionally, it imports existing permissions and usage logs so you can monitor activity and identify any unused privileges.
How to open Data Access
Data Access is available only in the latest user interface of Collibra Platform. You can open Data Access if you have a global role with the Product Rights → Data Access global permission.
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Supported data sources
Data Access supports the following data sources:
- Data warehouses: BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake
- Identity stores: Microsoft Entra ID, Okta