In Control Compliance Suite, a platform is defined as the category to which a group of entities belong. For example, SQL can be a platform, which contains entities that define the SQL application.

See About entities.

The Control Compliance Suite supports certain predefined platforms that are acknowledged by the infrastructure for data collection. For every predefined platform, a default data collector of Control Compliance Suite performs data collection. An entity schema contains the blueprint of a data collector and drives the data collector for data collection.

See About the entity schema .

You can define a platform for any custom application for which you want to collect data through a CSV file.