Secure By Design

Security · Defense‑in‑Depth

Secure by Design: Embeddings, metadata, and rerankers wired to Pinecone, Qdrant, or Postgres/pgvector.

Design and run RAG with least‑privilege connectors, encrypted data paths, permission‑aware retrieval, and full auditability—without slowing teams down.

Secure RAG architecture visualization
Access Controls

Permission‑Aware Retrieval

Row‑level security at query time; metadata filters for tenant, role, sensitivity; signed queries and scoped API keys.

Encryption

Data in Motion & at Rest

TLS everywhere; KMS‑managed keys for Pinecone, Qdrant, or pgvector; optional client‑side encryption for sensitive fields.

Compliance

Audit & Guardrails

Immutable logs, retention policies, PII redaction at ingest, answer abstention & citation thresholds to curb hallucinations.

Model the Threats

Map assets & flows: docs → embeddings → vector store → LLM; identify risks (data leakage, escalation, prompt injection).

Least‑Privilege Integrations

Issue short‑lived credentials; scope to index/namespace; separate read/write; per‑tenant namespaces and quotas.

Validate & Monitor

Golden‑set evals, toxic/PII classifiers, retrieval score floors, reranker sanity checks, drift + cost dashboards.

Prove & Scale

Evidence packs for audits; disaster‑recovery runbooks; multi‑region replicas; cache & batching for cost/latency.

  • Healthcare & Life Sciences PHI‑aware retrieval with field‑level redaction and ePHI access logs.
  • Financial Services SOC/PCI‑aligned pipelines, separate duties for ingestion vs. query, tamper‑proof logs.
  • Public Sector Data locality controls, FedRAMP‑aligned deployment patterns, key segregation.
  • Enterprise Support Tenant‑scoped indexes and permission‑checked citations for customer‑facing answers.
  • Legal & Compliance Effective