Alation Security

Product Security

Alation customers include large global enterprises in financial services, healthcare, insurance, and technology. These companies are subject to rigorous internal and external regulations and information security standards. They are able to continue meeting their security and compliance objectives with Alation as an integral part of their environment—both by applying organization-specific controls and by leveraging the strength of Alation’s product and operational security. On Alation Cloud Service, customers’ data is encrypted and not accessible by Alation’s site engineers.

Operational Security

Alation has made significant investments in security and privacy that meet or exceed industry best practices. We have adopted and are certified for the ISO 27001:2022 framework as a baseline security standard for the entire company and the development and maintenance of our products. Additionally, we have met all controls for SOC 2 Type 2 (which includes HIPAA and HITECH), ISO 27017:2015, ISO 27018:2019, and ISO 27701:2019. Our operational security consists of:

• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Management

• Organizational and Operational Security

• Secure System Development Life Cycle

• Third-Party Risk Management

• People Operations Security

• Incident Management

• Asset Management

• Communications

• Access Control

• Encryption

Risk and Vulnerability Management

Alation employs static code analysis, dynamic code analysis, and vulnerability scanners as part of its development and environment process to discover and address vulnerabilities. Additionally, Alation goes through a penetration test at least twice annually, maintaining risk management that captures business and third-party risk. We review every third party that is introduced into our infrastructure and conduct annual risk assessments against our key third-party partners.

Compliance

Compliance

ISO 27001:2022 certified as of January 29, 2020. Alation’s ISO 27001 certification is available here.

ISO 27701:2019 certified as of January 12, 2022. Alation’s ISO 27701 certification is available here.

ISO 27017:2015 certified as of February 24, 2026. Alation’s ISO 27017 certification is available here.

ISO 27018:2019 certified as of February 24, 2026. Alation’s ISO 27018 certification is available here.

SOC 2 Type 2: Alation maintains an American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 report. Our report is available here. 

HIPAA/HITECH: Alation has attained an attestation of compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). Both are included in our SOC 2 report.

FedRAMP Moderate: Alation continues to pursue full authorization with updates provided upon request.

Security documents can be requested through your sales representative. Security-related issues can be reported through security@alation.com.