Fides Documentation – Ethyca

POC: Data Mapping with Fides

Our POC (Proof of Concept) guides are intended for enterprise organizations evaluating Fides deployed in their environment and are a helpful way to guide you through deploying and evaluating the world's leading privacy engineering platform.

Prerequisites Guide for AWS Data Mapping and Data Inventory

Please follow these guides, in order, for the appropriate environment to get started quickly with your Fides POC (Proof of Concept):

In-House Systems

Step	Description	Notes
AWS Provisioning	Provision AWS Credentials	AWS Guide to provisioning Access Key (opens in a new tab)
SQL Database Credential Provisioning	Provision a service account for Database Access	Fides requires read-only permissions for classification.
Kubernetes Deployment (If Self-Deploying)	Access to deploy to AKS	AWS Guide to setting up Helm with EKS (opens in a new tab)

Third Party SaaS

Step	Description	Notes
Credential Provisioning	Provision Access Keys for third party systems	Refer to vendor documentation for seeding third party system data
Seed Test Data	Evaluator will provision sandbox data in a non-production environment	Example: Stripe - Generating test data (opens in a new tab)

POC Checklist for Data Mapping

In-House Systems

Step	Description	Notes
Fides Scanning & Data Mapping	Scan the AWS Instance	Fides guide to scanning AWS Infrastructure
Classify Sandbox AWS MySQL Database	Perform a classification and view results.
Create a System in Fides and link MySQL Dataset	Linking the dataset to a system.	Adding Data Uses and Processing Activities
Visualize Datamap, Filter Data, and Export a Report	See, explore, and understand your Datamap.	Data Mapping and Report Exporting

Third Party SaaS

Step	Description	Notes
Integrate Third Party System	Fides will use its data dictionary to identify PII.	Example: Stripe - Configuring the integration