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The ways your information can reach the platform

Organisations differ in what they will share, with whom, and how.

Demonstration: Halden Hospitals Group (fictional) · Healthcare. Fictional data and a scripted answer.

The situation

Organisation
Halden Hospitals Group (fictional)
Who is asking
Chief information security officer
Industry
Healthcare
What happened
The group is choosing how its records could reach an analytics platform, and its policy forbids sending patient data outside its own environment.

The question asked

Which way of connecting should we start with, given that our data must stay in our environment?

What it reads, and who can see the result

  • Connection options documentThe ways information can reach the platform.
  • Security requirements documentThe hospital's data location and access rules.
Reads
The option descriptions and the group's security requirements.
Does not read
Any patient data.
Permission
The CISO's office.
Who sees it
The CISO, the data protection officer and the head of IT.

Try it

Change how much each criterion matters. The ranking is recomputed, and the page tells you whether the leader would survive a different judgement.

How much each thing matters (0 to 10)
9
7
4
3
  1. 1Customer-hosted connector reading a read-only replicaRuns inside our network; only results leave.Data stays in our environment: 5We can revoke access instantly: 5Information is current: 4Low set-up effort: 24.43
  2. 2Message feed of events to a gateway we operateNear real-time; more engineering.Data stays in our environment: 4We can revoke access instantly: 4Information is current: 5Low set-up effort: 13.78
  3. 3Scheduled file export to a folder we controlSimple; stale between exports.Data stays in our environment: 4We can revoke access instantly: 4Information is current: 2Low set-up effort: 43.65
  4. 4One-off upload of selected documentsGood for a trial; manual.Data stays in our environment: 3We can revoke access instantly: 5Information is current: 1Low set-up effort: 53.52
  5. 5Cloud service reading the database directlyFresh and simple; data leaves.Data stays in our environment: 1We can revoke access instantly: 3Information is current: 5Low set-up effort: 42.70

Leader's margin over the next option: 0.65. The leader holds under every weighting tested.

The answer

Simulated answer. Written for this fictional case, not produced by a live model. Only the figures in it are computed, from what you decided above.

With these weights the best starting connection is: Customer-hosted connector reading a read-only replica (score 4.43).

Each option is scored against the group's own rules [S1][S2]. Because staying in the environment weighs most, a direct cloud connection scores low whatever its convenience. The order is holds under the weightings tested; it would change if none of the tested weightings.

Every option here is read-only: none of them writes back to a source system. The choice is how information is read and where it travels, and the weights say which of those the group fears more.

Relies on: S1 · Connection options, describedS2 · Group data location rules

Review and approval

The chief information security officer decides. Approving records the connection pattern chosen for the first pilot. It does not open a connection or send any data.

Ready for the reviewer.

In the product this is a different person with the right permission. Here you play that role to see the rule.

What it produces

recommendationDraft, not approved

First connection pattern

  • Start with: Customer-hosted connector reading a read-only replica.
  • Sensitive to: none of the tested weightings.

Limits of this example

  • Scores are judgements against the group's stated rules.
  • A connection design still needs the security team's review before use.
  • This is a scripted demonstration on fictional data. No model was called and no real organisation, person or result is shown.

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