EY Questions

Question 1

What is DSES?

Answer 1

Data Security Enablement Studio - web app that allowed for permissions to be set up at database level, table level or column and row level for data in Omnia and GDW.

Question 2

What is vert.x?

Answer 2

Java based API/backend

Question 3

What is the policy engine?

Answer 3

A bespoke python-based automation tool which enforces permission policies

Question 4

What did you do as business engagement lead?

Answer 4

Trying to get data stewards to classify data. Ran predictive classification models on database names, table names, column names.

Question 5

How did DSES integrate with the policy engine?

Answer 5

JSON file generated from DSES would be copied into Github by Manju and Partha and they would check it and merge it in. PE would read from there once per hour I think.

Question 6

What is Omnia and GDW?

Answer 6

Big data platforms in CDO - Group Data Warehouse. GDW is Teradata and Omnia is Cloudera Hadoop datalake so they needed separate policy engines.

Question 7

What is HDFS?

Answer 7

Hadoop Distributed File System