Product/Governance

What compliance and governance teams do in obstruo

This is the side of obstruo your compliance, risk and data-protection colleagues work in: the posture they are measured against, the policies and redaction standards they own, and the registries they keep.

Compliance posture

Start from the frameworks you are measured against

The posture view is where a compliance lead opens obstruo: which obligations are in scope, which controls cover them, and which evidence is already being collected in path. Every card below links to the records that support it, so a reviewer does not have to ask an engineer for a screenshot.

EVIDENCE IN PATH
EU AI Act
Article 14 oversight records, per agent and per action
EVIDENCE IN PATH
GDPR
Article 32 minimisation, per jurisdiction redaction standards
EVIDENCE IN PATH
Data residency
EU processing, pinned per project
IN PREPARATION
SOC 2 Type II
Control set defined, audit not yet completed
IN PREPARATION
ISO 27001
Information security management being certified
TEMPLATES
Sector rules
Healthcare and financial redaction templates to start from
Policy catalog

Write the rule once, in the catalog

Governance teams keep every rule in one catalog: what it does, which projects it reaches, and how strongly it binds them. Locked policies cannot be edited inside a project. Recommended ones can be declined with a reason. Optional ones are there for teams that want them. Each change produces a new version with a diff and an author, and a request is always evaluated against the version that was active at the time.

Locked, recommended and optional strengths
Versioned with a diff, never edited in place
Coverage shown per project and per agent
Policy catalog, organisation18 of 21 projects covered
EU personal data redactionv14LOCKED
Approved models onlyv9LOCKED
High-risk agent baselinev6RECOMMENDED
Secret detection in promptsv3RECOMMENDED
Per-project spend ceilingv2OPTIONAL
Redaction standards
STANDARDCATEGORIESPROJECTS
eu-gdpr-strict14 categories11
us-ccpa-default11 categories4
br-lgpd12 categories2
healthcare-hipaa18 categories3
dev-passthroughnone6
Client {PERSON_18b}, IBAN {IBAN_3d2}, born {DATE_0f4}
Redaction standards

One standard per jurisdiction, not per team

A redaction standard says which categories of personal data are stripped, how they are tokenized, and what happens when detection cannot run. Compliance owns the standard, engineering only picks which one a project inherits. A prompt from Germany leaves with GDPR-grade redactions, the same prompt from California gets CCPA-grade, and the standard that applied is written into the record.

Category lists per jurisdiction, maintained by obstruo
Reversible tokenization that restores inflected forms in languages that decline names
Failure behaviour comes from the policy, not the standard
Access and identity

Separate the people who propose from the people who approve

Governance work only holds up if the roles are split. Policy authors propose, compliance approves, platform teams operate, and auditors read. Administrative activity is recorded per action, so a policy edit or a key rotation has a name and a timestamp attached to it.

SSO through SAML and OIDC, MFA for local accounts
Role-based access with read-only auditor role
Per-action audit of policy edits and key rotations
Roles and access
ROLECAN DOMEMBERS
Policy authorPropose, edit drafts6
Compliance approverApprove models, servers3
Platform operatorKeys, routing, projects9
AuditorRead and export only2
SSO enforced for 18 of 20 members, 2 local accounts with MFA
Asset registryAGENTS AND SKILLS NEXT

Every agent, MCP server and skill in one registry

The registry is where governance teams see what exists: owners, risk ratings, data sources, tools and coverage. MCP servers are governed today. Agents and skills are next, discovered from real live traffic rather than a questionnaire, so the register reflects what is actually running.

4 / 9 governed
Agents

Owners, risk, data sources, tools, and approvals in one registry. Auto-discovered from live traffic.

Owner Risk Coverage
LIVE
MCP servers

Trust, transport, auth posture, and per-tool permissions. Flag destructive tools before an agent connects.

Verified Transport Per-tool
5 / 10 governed
Skills

Source, bundled scripts, and the capabilities each skill is allowed to use. Approve code execution and egress.

Source Capability Trust
MCP server governance is live in the console today. Agent and skill registries are in preview, with the governance model already wired into the control plane.
Vendor and processor register5 processors, 1 pending
PROCESSORREGIONDPA
EU model providereu-centralOn file
US model providerus-east, SCCOn file
github-mcpeu-westOn file
postgres-mcpon premisesInternal
analytics-mcpus-eastRequested
Vendor and processor register

Know which processor saw what, before the auditor asks

Every provider and MCP server your organisation uses is a processor or a sub-processor. The register keeps the contract state, the processing region and the data categories allowed for each one, and connects them to the projects and agents that actually call them. When a provider is added in the console, it appears here, not in a spreadsheet three quarters later.

DPA state, processing region and transfer basis per vendor
Linked to the projects and agents that use them
Data categories permitted per processor
Approvals, incidents and evidence
The records this page produces live on evidence and assurance

Approval queues, incident linkage, retention, framework mappings and evidence exports are all views over the same audit record. They have their own page, because that is the part an auditor reads.

Evidence and assurance
On the governance roadmap

Not built yet, and labelled that way

Two governance surfaces are in progress. They are on this page so your review can plan around them, not so a sales deck can imply they exist.

IN DEVELOPMENT
Exposure map

One picture of what your AI can currently reach: which data sources feed which agents, which tools those agents hold, and which processors sit on the other side. Built from real live traffic rather than a questionnaire, so it shows exposure as it is, not as it was designed.

PLANNED
DPIA and data-subject workflows

Impact assessments started from what the registry already knows about a project, and data-subject requests answered against the redaction and retention state of real traffic. The intent is that a DPIA stops being a document written from memory.

Your AI. Your data. Your control.

Start free on one project, then make the same policy executable across the organisation.

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