Mastering Compliance in ArcGIS with AI: Are you Really in Control?

A few years ago, a small incident in our production environment made us pause and reflect: Were people actually following our working agreements? We had accidentally published data from a production file share as an editable development service. What seemed like a one‑off mistake turned out to be a real ‘can of worms.’

Instead of just reacting to issues, we decided to focus on proactively preventing them. Let’s be honest: manually checking whether all working agreements are followed is nearly impossible — especially in environments with many users constantly creating and modifying data. You might think things are under control, but mistakes happen — especially under pressure. So, we started looking for a more foolproof way to automatically check whether working agreements are being followed and to inform users when they’re not.

In this session, I’ll show how we use FME Flow automations to monitor every change in real time — from creating items to updating sharing settings. We can dynamically validate whether all working agreements are being followed, tailored to each client and environment. We’ve also integrated AI to detect potential data leaks early on. This has already helped us clean up over 250,000 sensitive records across multiple organizations.

Curious what this could mean for your organization? Whether you’re using ArcGIS software, managing it as an admin, or safeguarding data as a privacy officer — come see what’s possible when you start connecting data across your applications.