Platform / Security

End-to-end security on every interaction

CData enforces identity, encryption, and audit at every read and write—keeping enterprise access controlled, logged, and provable.

End-to-end security
Trusted by enterprise teams
GSK
Palantir
Anthropic
Office Depot
Google
Fit Check

Will this meet our security standards?

Identity, encryption, certification, and deployment controls that map to the questions your security team asks first.

Access controls

Passthrough identity • SSO / SAML • Granular kill switches by user, connection, workspace, or account

Compliance

SOC 2 Type II • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 • Regular third-party penetration testing

Encryption

AES-256 at rest • TLS 1.3 in transit • Centralized secrets management

Deployment

Cloud • Hybrid — data stays in your environment

The Problem

Security reviews should take days, not months

Every new integration reopens the security review

Each connector that copies data expands the attack surface and restarts the review cycle. Velocity stalls waiting on sign-off.

Credentials sprawl across tools and scripts

When every integration stores its own keys, secrets end up in config files and logs — with no clear picture of who has access or how to revoke it.

Read-only access drives risky workarounds

When governed tools can only read, teams write custom code to make changes — bypassing the audit and controls security depends on.

How It Works

Control enforced where execution happens.

Security lives at the context layer—applied to every prompt and action the moment it runs, not assumed from a perimeter.

01

A request arrives carrying the user's own identity through SSO — no shared service accounts and no source credentials stored in CData.

02

CData checks the request against policy: who the user is, the operation they are attempting, and the connection, workspace, or account it touches.

03

The operation runs at the source over TLS 1.3, with data encrypted at rest and secrets managed centrally — no copy is made to an intermediate store.

04

Every read and write is logged at the query level, and kill switches can revoke access at any level the instant it is needed.

Controlled access in. Provable, auditable execution out.

Key Capabilities

What a security review actually checks.

01
Incident response

Shut anything down in seconds, not hours

Granular kill switches revoke a user or agent's access, disable a connection, suspend a workspace, or trigger account-wide lockdown — and changes take effect instantly.

Shut anything down in seconds, not hours
02
Encryption

Data protected in transit and at rest

AES-256 encryption at rest exceeds Federal compliance minimums, TLS 1.3 secures all data in transit, and secrets are managed centrally for every credential and config value.

Data protected in transit and at rest
03
Compliance

Audited against the standards you require

SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, backed by regular third-party penetration testing. Independent findings are available under NDA.

Audited against the standards you require
04
Identity

Every action carries the user's identity

Passthrough identity means each source enforces its own permissions — there are no shared service accounts and no source credentials stored in CData.

Every action carries the user's identity
05
Audit

Every read and write is provable

Query-level audit logging captures each operation across every connected system, so you can answer who did what, where, and when.

Every read and write is provable
06
Data residency

Less data movement, smaller attack surface

Federated execution queries sources directly instead of copying data into another store, so sensitive data stays inside your environment.

Less data movement, smaller attack surface
Shut anything down in seconds, not hours
Data protected in transit and at rest
Audited against the standards you require
Every action carries the user's identity
Every read and write is provable
Less data movement, smaller attack surface
Trusted where the stakes are highest
“Our security team approved CData in a single review cycle. Passthrough identity and query-level audit answered most of the questionnaire before we got on a call.”
Director of Information Security
Financial services enterprise
“We retired a pile of one-off scripts with hard-coded keys. Access is now centralized, logged, and revocable in seconds — that alone changed our risk posture.”
VP, Platform Engineering
Healthcare technology company
Implementation Path

A practical path from first connection to sign-off.

Day 01

Connect with SSO

Connect the first source using passthrough identity and your existing SSO or SAML provider.

Milestone: Live access with no stored source credentials. Every session tied to a real user identity.

Day 03

Turn on audit & controls

Enable query-level audit logging and configure kill switches across priority systems.

Milestone: Every read and write is logged. Access can be revoked by user, connection, workspace, or account in seconds.

Day 07

Clear the review

Hand your security team the audit trail, certifications, and pen-test summary for sign-off.

Milestone: Security review completed against live evidence — SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, encryption, and identity all demonstrable.

Security & compliance

Data control that preserves governance.


Governance model
  • Passthrough identity on every read and write
  • No source credentials stored in CData
  • Query-level audit logging for every operation
  • Granular kill switches — by user, connection, workspace, or account
  • No data movement required — sources queried in place
Certifications & controls
  • SOC 2 Type II — Completed.
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — Completed.
  • Third-party penetration testing — findings available under NDA.
  • AES-256 at rest · TLS 1.3 in transit
  • Centralized secrets management — all credentials and config data.
FAQ

Questions security teams ask first.

  • How does CData authenticate users against source systems?
  • Where are source credentials and secrets stored?
  • What can a kill switch actually stop, and how fast?
  • Does using CData mean copying our data somewhere new?
  • What compliance evidence can we get for our security review?

Give your security team controlled, auditable access across live enterprise data.

Talk to our team about connecting your first source with passthrough identity and audit enabled. Or review the certifications, controls, and architecture behind CData security.