overview.md

Data Control Center

Detect, block, redact, or observe sensitive data as it flows through AI agents and the MCP layer.

The Data Control Center is where platform administrators configure how sensitive data is handled as it moves through AI agents and the MCP layer. It gives security teams a single place to define what data is sensitive, where to enforce protection, and what to do when a detection fires.

How it works

Every prompt sent to an LLM, every response returned, and every MCP tool call — input and output — flows through the platform's inspection layer. The Data Control Center controls that layer through three building blocks:

1. Protection Profiles — define what to detect (email addresses, AWS keys, credit cards, custom patterns, etc.)
2. MCP Policies and LLM Policies — define where to enforce and what action to take when a detection fires
3. Field Controls — define which JSON fields to pass through or remove from specific tool outputs, independently of text-based detection

The flow is always the same: add profiles first, then attach them to policies.

Core concepts

Protection Profile

A Protection Profile is a named detection engine. It bundles together a set of detection types (e.g., "Social Security Number", "AWS Secret Access Key") with the runtime stages it scans and the actions it supports.

Profiles are reusable — create one and attach it to many policies. When the detection logic changes, update the profile and all policies using it inherit the change automatically.

Built-in profile types:

External providers (AWS Comprehend PII, AWS Bedrock Guardrails) are also available as catalog options.

MCP Policy

An MCP Policy governs what happens when a protection profile's detections fire on MCP tool calls — the structured calls AI agents make to connected servers (Salesforce, ticketing systems, internal APIs, and so on).

Each policy specifies:

• Which MCP Server(s) to apply to (or all servers)
• Which Protection Profiles to run
• The action to take when a detection fires
• Optionally, which groups or roles the policy scopes to

MCP policies inspect both the agent's tool input (what it sends to the tool) and the tool's response (what the tool returns to the agent).

Field Controls

Field Controls give you precise, field-level governance over structured tool output — independently of text-based detection. Instead of scanning free text for patterns, you name exact JSON field paths to either remove or allow through.

Each rule specifies:

• The MCP Server and tool it targets
• The direction (input or output)
• The mode:
  • Redact listed — the fields you name are removed; everything else passes through
  • Allow only listed — only the fields you name pass through; everything else is removed
• Optionally, which groups or roles the rule scopes to

Use field controls when you know the exact field paths — for example, always strip AnnualRevenue and BillingAddress from Salesforce Account records before an agent in the support group can read them.

Policy actions

Dry run mode

Any policy can be toggled into dry run. In dry run the policy runs and logs detections but does not enforce them. Use this to validate a new policy before making it active. There is also a global dry run that applies to all policies at once.

Runtime stages

Enabling the runtime

The global Enabled toggle at the top of the Data Control Center controls whether the inspection layer runs at all. When disabled, no policies execute and all traffic passes through uninspected. Changes take effect within seconds.