What to do with highly sensitive data?

If a customer has highly sensitive data and really needs the most controls from an access standpoint, does Anaplan recommend….

The data lives in a model it's own workspace
The data lives in a model in it's own tenant that only has the data.

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Dikshant

It depends upon how that data needs to be consumed. If that data needs to do some analytics in the spoke model, then you can store it in a different workspace and pull the aggregated values into the spoke, This way, your data is secure and you're getting required insights from it in the spoke.

Tiffany.Rice

Bifurcating your workspace facilitates the ability to control your admin access - for example you may allow more builders/admins in a DEV or less sensitive workspace while limiting access on an as needed basis for more sensitive models.

Typically, a customer will only have a single tenant.

Below is a quick view of different levels of security within Anaplan, you can use a combination of tailor the user's experience to only see data which is appropriate for their usage:

Tenant - overarching processes/functionality that apply to all models including license management, SSO configuration, and ancillary functionality access (CloudWorks, Page Builder, etc.)
Workspace - container that houses models for a specified use case. SSO and Model Builder (Workspace Admin) assignments occur at this level.
Model - driven by user's model role, this defines the modules (inputs, calculations, etc.) and actions with which the user may interact.
List Selective Access - defines the list components (for example: certain cost centers) to which the user has access to view or edit. Modules that are dimensioned by a selective access enabled list will enforce both the model role + list component access.
Cell - access drivers defined by Boolean indicators to provide users access to specific cell intersections. This can be layered on top of Model & List selective access to further restrict user access. ***Typically cell level access drivers are not user centric but rather used to enforce business logic or optimize the user experience, for example if there is a pre-requisite data point before a calculation can be completed.

sychtysz18

Thank you for the responses. I still feel like having a seperate tenant for ultra secure data offers an additional level of security.

Senario A - If you split a sensitive data model into another tenant (meaning 2 total tenants), you might be able to have only 2 tenant admins in other tenant due to it being smaller. Meaning 2 people who have power to give people access to sensitive data

Scenario B - You have 4 tenant admins in 1 tenant that has sensitive data. These 4 tenant admin are needed given the size of the organization. Those 4 tenants could give access to the sensitive data workspace.

From a security standpoint, scenario A is more secure.

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