Data assurance capabilities are received that are related to at least one individual persistent object type in a plurality of persistent object types linked to persistent objects stored on the service provider server. In addition, data assurance specifications are received from a customer, the data assurance specifications being based on the data assurance capabilities. Computer-readable data assurance policies for the at least one persistent object type are generated based on the received data assurance specification. The computer-readable data assurance policies then are combined with a corresponding template of data assurance capabilities for the at least one individual persistent object type to generate an enforceable customer-specific data policy.