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Data Governance

You can't say for certain what data you hold, where personal data sits, or who can reach it — and a regulator, auditor, or customer security review is going to ask. Symetriz builds governance on Microsoft Purview and your existing Azure controls, with evidence you can hand over.

The problem

Could you prove it tomorrow?

  • Nobody knows what data you hold

    Data has spread across databases, lakes, and file shares with no inventory, so basic questions go unanswered.

    How we fix it: Automated discovery and cataloging across your estate.

  • Compliance questions you can't answer

    The DPDP Act, GDPR, and customer security reviews all ask where personal data is and who can access it.

    How we fix it: Classification, lineage, and audit-ready evidence.

  • Policies nobody follows

    Governance lives in a document, not in the systems where data is actually used.

    How we fix it: Access policies and sensitivity labels enforced on the data itself.

The solution

Governance you can prove, built on Purview

  • Cataloging, lineage, and classification built on Microsoft Purview
  • Sensitivity labels and access policies applied to data, not just written down
  • Audit-ready evidence for DPDP Act, GDPR, and customer security reviews

Know what you have, and where it came from

Governance starts with an inventory. Most estates cannot answer basic questions about their own data because nobody has ever scanned it.

01

Discovery & cataloging

Azure SQL, Data Lake Storage, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and on-premises sources scanned into one searchable catalog, so people can find data without asking around.

02

Automated classification

Personal, financial, and regulated data identified by scanning rather than by survey, so the classification reflects what is actually stored.

03

End-to-end lineage

Trace a number on a dashboard back through its pipelines to the source system — the question that decides whether a report gets trusted or quietly ignored.

Governance that survives real usage

Controls only count if they hold once several teams depend on the same data.

01

Access policies & sensitivity labels

Who can read what, enforced through Entra ID and Purview labels, with the reasoning recorded so access reviews are not guesswork.

02

Data quality rules & monitoring

Freshness, completeness, and validity checks that run continuously and raise an alert before a stakeholder spots the gap first.

03

Ownership, stewardship & audit evidence

Named owners per domain, a workflow for resolving issues, and exportable evidence when an auditor or enterprise customer asks how data is controlled.

Ready when you are

Not sure what data you hold, or who can reach it?

We can start with a discovery scan of your existing estate and show you the catalog, classification, and access picture before you commit to a governance programme.

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