Frameworks & Standards
NIST Privacy Framework
The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary, outcome-based tool for managing privacy risk through enterprise risk management. The published 1.0 Core uses five functions: Identify-P, Govern-P, Control-P, Communicate-P, and Protect-P.
This mapping uses the version 1.0 Core. Use the version selected by your organization when assessing individual outcomes.
Buyer question
"Can Legra help us identify personal-data processing, govern its purpose and authority, give people and organizations meaningful control, communicate how data is used, and protect it?"
Legra fit
| Privacy Framework function | Legra fit | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Identify-P | Catalogs, semantic metadata, provenance, classifications, workspace boundaries, and graph queries can identify data, processing context, actors, dependencies, and affected resources. | Partial fit |
| Govern-P | Policies, ownership, purposes, Use Cases, validation rules, approvals, and signed history can be represented and governed with the data. Enterprise privacy governance remains organizational. | Partial fit |
| Control-P | Workspace membership, encryption, scoped queries, branches, and revocation provide technical control. Preference, consent, correction, deletion, and portability workflows require application and policy coverage. | Partial fit |
| Communicate-P | Machine-readable metadata can describe purpose, provenance, policy, access, and processing context, but notices and communication with individuals remain the organization's responsibility. | Partial fit |
| Protect-P | End-to-end encryption, signed commits, validation, and controlled workspace membership protect data confidentiality and integrity. | Native fit |
What Legra can say
The Privacy Framework fits Legra's evidence model because privacy risk depends on relationships that can be represented and queried:
- Which workspace contains personal or sensitive data.
- Why that data exists and which Use Case or purpose justifies it.
- Where it came from and which identities changed it.
- Which policies, classifications, and validation rules apply.
- Which members and services have authority over it.
- Which branches, commits, tasks, and events affected it.
This allows privacy evidence to remain connected to the governed data instead of being maintained only in a separate spreadsheet or policy repository.
Assessment boundary
The NIST Privacy Framework evaluates an organization's privacy-risk outcomes. Legra cannot determine lawful purpose, define acceptable privacy risk, write notices, collect valid consent, answer every data-subject request, or operate the organization's broader privacy program automatically.
It provides data-layer controls and evidence that support those outcomes. The assessment must still cover people, processes, applications, suppliers, and the full processing lifecycle.