Accelerating Data Pipeline Development

Chapter 5. Coalesce Security and Data Governance

Throughout this guide, you’ve laid the foundation for your data projects. You’ve used Coalesce’s building blocks to construct your house, and in the previous chapter, you organized everything inside your home. Now it’s time to protect what you’ve built. In this chapter, you’ll focus on security and data governance in Coalesce—locking the doors, securing the windows, and keeping everything safe.

By the end of this chapter, you’ll know how Coalesce supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO). You’ll learn how to configure OAuth for secure authentication. You’ll also understand how role-based access control (RBAC) works and how to set it up for your organization. Finally, you’ll learn how to get a clear view of everything you’ve built and see how it connects across your entire data stack. Let’s dig in!

Account Access

Let’s begin the conversation about security by talking about accessing your Coalesce instance. Coalesce provides different methods to authenticate, or log in to, your Coalesce account. As of the time of this writing, those methods are to enter a username with a password and to use a variety of supported single sign-on providers, such as Okta. Let’s go over single sign-on a bit more.

Single Sign-On

Single sign-on allows users to authenticate into Coalesce using credentials managed by an external identity provider, streamlining access and improving security. Coalesce supports multi-organization ...