How to govern Haystack
A step-by-step guide to governing Haystack with Rencore: detect with 21 policies, review with 6 reports, and remediate with 11 automations.
Governing Haystack means keeping its access, configuration, and lifecycle under continuous control rather than reacting after something breaks. Rencore governs Haystack with 21 pre-built policies, 6 reports, and 11 automations, so teams can detect risk, review posture, and remediate with an audit trail. The steps below turn that coverage into a repeatable routine.
Steps
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Inventory Haystack
Connect Haystack and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Haystack to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Haystack reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Recommended Haystack policies
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Haystack catalog on the Haystack connector page.
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Haystack pipeline is live in production
Pipelines in production status serve live traffic, raising the likelihood that any weakness is exercised
Severity: High -
Shared prototype is publicly reachable
Publicly accessible prototypes are reachable without authentication, raising the likelihood of exposure
Severity: High -
Haystack user holds an administrative role
Users with an admin role have a wide blast radius, raising the likelihood that any weakness has real impact
Severity: Medium -
Haystack index is populated and in active use
Indexes that hold documents are a live data surface, raising the likelihood of exposure if reached
Severity: Medium -
Haystack user is deactivated in Entra ID
Detects Haystack users who are deactivated in the parent Entra ID
Severity: Medium -
Haystack user is external user in Entra ID
Detects Haystack users which are guest in the Entra ID directory
Severity: Medium -
Public shared prototype detected
Detects shared prototypes that are publicly accessible
Severity: High -
Haystack secret not updated in 90 days
Detects secrets that have not been rotated in the last 90 days
Severity: Medium -
Expired Haystack API token
Detects API tokens that have passed their expiration date
Severity: Medium -
Haystack pipeline in draft state
Detects pipelines that are still in draft status
Severity: Medium -
Haystack pipeline not updated in 90 days
Detects pipelines that have not been modified in the last 90 days
Severity: Medium -
Haystack pipeline with too many nodes
Detects pipelines that have more than 20 processing nodes
Severity: Medium
