Information Models

Your model — not a fixed vendor schema

At its core Helios is model-agnostic: every implementation defines its own information models. Your organization’s reality — not a vendor’s fixed data model — decides what exists in the platform and how it connects.

Attributes with meaning

Each model supports the common attribute types, with pre-defined values and restrictions where control matters. Validation lives in the model, so quality is enforced at the point of entry — from any source.

Relationships are first-class

Use relationships to describe how your data is actually connected: which person holds which clearance for which project, which system processes which information, which supplier delivers which component. Connect your HR, document, cloud and OT models into one graph — that connectedness is what lets a single control verify several regulations at once, and criticality derive from information classification.

Taxonomies and classifications

Models can include taxonomies — governed, often hierarchical classification structures such as information-classification levels, organizational units, asset categories and control frameworks. Objects reference taxonomy values instead of free text, so classification stays consistent across every source and can drive derivation: a system’s criticality follows from the classification of the information it handles. Taxonomies are governed like everything else in Helios — changes go through approval and land in the audit trail.

The model drives the platform

The information model is not documentation — it is configuration. It drives API endpoints, data ingestion mappings, forms, processes and visualization. Change the model and the platform follows, in your own environment, without vendor development.