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Enterprise Control Plane

Activity across users, agents, applications, and data becomes uniquely valuable when governed through one enterprise control plane that reveals how work moves north, south, east, and west securely.

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Centralized Governance

Govern in Granular Detail

A control plane provides the centralized governance layer for activity across users, agents, applications, data, and infrastructure throughout your organization.

It captures essential context, including the request, its identity, destination, policy decision, and resulting action. Signals flow north and south between users and systems, while east and west traffic moves across applications, agents, clouds, and services, creating a unified operational record.

Examining this activity enables administrators to enforce policy consistently, while security teams can trace decisions, investigate incidents, and maintain oversight across distributed enterprise workflows securely and consistently.

Operational Impact

Immediate Value Realized

  • Govern Activity

    Record north-south and east-west activity with precision tailored to policy and operational context.

  • Document Behavior

    Document every interaction across users, agents, applications, and data, then trace critical events through decisions, routes, actions, and outcomes.

  • Gain Insight

    Gain insight into the context of every request, enabling teams to govern access, autonomy, and data movement without disrupting legitimate business work.

  • View All Activity

    Access a comprehensive view of enterprise activity through customizable dashboards and integrate with SIEM, analytics, identity, and operations platforms for complete unified visibility.

Governance in Action

Embracing a Governed Digital Future

  • Ensuring Compliance with Enterprise Policy

    Frameworks such as CIS, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 affect organizations across many industries. A control plane helps demonstrate that policies were consistently applied to users, agents, applications, and data, while preserving the detailed auditable evidence required to validate compliance within a defined timeframe.

  • Investigating Data-Movement Issues

    A control plane preserves connected historical data that is invaluable for reconstructing how information moved before, during, and after an incident. These records help distinguish authorized business activity from mistakes, policy violations, agent errors, malicious behavior, or system failures. They also support faster resolution by revealing which identity initiated an action, which policy evaluated it, where data traveled, what systems received it, and which downstream applications or agents were directly affected.

  • Reconstructing Security Breaches

    When a breach occurs, the control plane becomes instrumental in reconstructing the full path of the incident. For example, if sensitive payroll information changes unexpectedly, investigators can review north-south access and east-west system activity to identify the responsible identity, determine which policy allowed the action, and establish when and where the information was altered.

Design Principles

Advantages of a North–South–East–West Control Plane

  • Completeness

    A comprehensive control plane must collect relevant context to maintain a complete record of enterprise activity.
    Recording an action without its identity, destination, policy decision, timestamp, and downstream effect produces an incomplete picture.

  • Consistency

    To streamline operations and reduce fragmented tooling, a control plane should apply consistent governance across devices, browsers, applications, agents, clouds, and data systems.
    Inconsistencies, such as governing north-south user activity while leaving east-west agent or application traffic unobserved, should be avoided.

  • Easy Querying

    For effective analysis, the control plane should transform raw activity into structured information containing identities, events, policies, destinations, decisions, actions, and outcomes.
    Once normalized, the platform should make it easy to search, filter, tag, and correlate activity across north-south and east-west flows, allowing teams to reconstruct incidents and understand enterprise behavior easily with greater precision.

Regulatory Oversight

New Regulatory Governance Requirements

Regulators increasingly expect organizations to disclose significant cybersecurity incidents promptly and demonstrate disciplined oversight of digital risk.

A unified control plane helps document material events and produce evidence concerning governance, policy enforcement, identity, data movement, and operational accountability.

Full-Spectrum Coverage

Ways to Adapt Primary to your Enterprise

  • Train your Control Plane to notice Sensitive Data

    Detect, classify, and block sensitive information before it reaches unauthorized AI models, applications, agents, or external services.
    Identify personally identifiable information, financial records, credentials, confidential business data, and organization-specific patterns across prompts, files, API calls, agent actions, and application traffic. Examples include Social Security numbers, credit card data, health information, customer records, API keys, private keys, database connection strings, source code, and proprietary company information.

  • Block exfiltration of that data in real time

    Once you've defined sensitive information, Primary enables you to stop it at the moment before exposure—not after the damage is done.
    The Control Plane can automatically block a request, redact protected fields, quarantine a file, restrict an agent action, or require additional approval before data is allowed to move beyond an authorized boundary.

  • Apply policy by context

    Not every sensitive-data event should be treated the same way. Policies can adapt based on the user, agent, application, destination, data type, business purpose, geography, and level of risk. Customer data may be permitted within an approved internal workflow, for example, while the same data is blocked from being sent to a public AI model.

  • See it Happen in Real Time

    Every detection includes the context required for immediate investigation: what data was found, where it originated, which user or agent was involved, where it was going, and what action was taken.
    Real-time alerts and complete audit trails help security, privacy, and compliance teams respond faster, investigate with confidence, and demonstrate that sensitive information is being governed consistently.