Security & compliance
Your data never leaves your building. Here's the full picture.
The obligations that put public AI tools off the table for regulated firms — and the architecture Aurus uses instead.
The problem
Your clients expect AI-era service. Your obligations forbid AI-era shortcuts.
AI is the obvious lever for doing more with the same headcount. For firms holding privileged, regulated, or confidential material, the popular tools are off the table.
Privilege on the line
Pasting case materials into a public chatbot discloses them to a third party — and can undermine privilege and your duty of confidentiality.
HIPAA has no gray area
Patient information entered into a consumer AI tool is PHI handed to a vendor without a business associate agreement. That's a reportable breach, not a productivity hack.
Financial data is regulated data
Portfolios, returns, and account details carry GLBA, SEC, and FINRA obligations. “We put it in a chatbot” is not an answer for an examiner.
Your NDAs say no
Engagement terms routinely prohibit sharing client materials with outside parties. A cloud AI provider is an outside party — whatever its settings page promises.
The uncomfortable part: your staff may be using these tools already, because the time savings are real. AI is already inside your firm — without controls or an audit trail.
Security & compliance
Confidentiality isn’t a feature. It’s the architecture.
Most AI products ask you to trust their cloud. Aurus is data sovereignty in practice: your files are never in anyone else’s hands to begin with.
Zero data egress
Documents, questions, and answers are processed entirely on the Aurus appliance. Nothing is transmitted out — there is no cloud side to secure.
Self-contained inference
The models run on the appliance itself. No external API dependencies, no third-party calls.
No shared-responsibility gap
Cloud AI splits control between you and a vendor. Aurus runs inside your walls — one perimeter, one owner: you.
Air-gap capable
Aurus can operate with no internet connection at all. For the most sensitive environments, the appliance simply isn't reachable from outside.
Permission-aware by design
Aurus Console mirrors your existing file permissions. Ethical walls and need-to-know boundaries are enforced on every query.
Audit-ready
Every question, answer, and document accessed is logged in Aurus Console — on your hardware, under your control.
No master key. No backdoor. No ability to decrypt your data — because the keys never leave your control.
Data is encrypted at rest on hardware you physically control. Your existing security and retention policies apply, unchanged.
Encrypted at rest
Keys on your hardware
When your regulator, malpractice carrier, or client asks where the AI keeps your data — you can point at the room it’s in.
See what private AI can do for your firm.