Before you begin
Choose a business owner and a technical owner. State which Nova outcome needs the evidence, which environment is approved, and whether the connection is for evaluation or ongoing use.
Confirm the supported connection method with Hansec or your Nova administrator before creating access. Do not create broad credentials first and reduce them later.
Record the connection plan
- Purpose and expected Nova views or outcomes.
- Included accounts, subscriptions, projects, clusters, products, and regions.
- Explicit exclusions and known blind spots.
- Approved access method, owner, review date, and revocation path.
- Expected evidence interval, initial collection window, and acceptable delay.
- Validation records and the person who will confirm completeness.
Validate before relying on the connection
- Confirm that the source reports a healthy state and a recent successful collection.
- Compare a small approved sample with the provider source.
- Check that included and excluded scopes behave as planned.
- Confirm how the team will detect, own, and escalate a future connection failure.