Abstract: In some examples, a system provides a representation of a storage topology including a plurality of levels of entities that store data in a computing environment, the plurality of levels of entities including a first level including storage volumes and a second level including entities that request storage of data in the storage volumes. A policy repository stores data protection policies for respective entities in the computing environment. The system determines, based on the representation of the storage topology, whether an overlap exists between a first data protection policy and any of the data protection policies in the policy repository. Based on determining that the overlap exists between the first data protection policy and a second data protection policy in the policy repository, the system initiates an action including making a change associated with the first and second data protection policies or making a change associated with an entity in the computing environment.