FIG. 06 Trust & compliance

We hold ourselves to the bar we hold your business to.

A managed-security provider has a privileged view of your business. We take that responsibility seriously — through certifications you can verify, an architecture you can interrogate, and documentation that's available before you sign. This page exists so your security and procurement teams don't have to ask.

§ 01Certifications

Independently audited, continuously.

Two active ISO certifications (9001 & 27001), with ISO 42001 and SOC 2 in progress and further frameworks aligned. Certificates available under MNDA before any commercial conversation.

SOC 2
TYPE II

SOC 2 Type II

In progress · expected Q4 2026

Type II attestation covering security, availability, processing integrity, and confidentiality. Engagement underway; trust-services criteria mapped today.

Status: Type II attestation in progress
Target: Q4 2026
ISO
27001

ISO/IEC 27001:2022

Active · valid to May 2029

Information security management system. Statement of Applicability dated 16 Jul 2025, covering the Annex A controls with documented justifications for any scoped exceptions. Scope includes cyber-security services.

Registrar: Gabriel Registrar (IAF / EIAC)
Cert no.: 07020001076
Holder: Permus Information Technology LLC
ISO
9001

ISO 9001:2015

Active · valid to May 2029

Quality management system. Why a security company carries 9001? Because predictable processes are a security control. Onboarding, change management, and incident handling are audited the same way detection is.

Registrar: Gabriel Registrar (IAF / EIAC)
Cert no.: 07020001075
Holder: Permus Information Technology LLC
ISO
42001

ISO/IEC 42001:2023

Certification in progress

AI management system — the new standard for organisations that build with AI. Covers model lifecycle, training-data governance, human oversight, and the harms-mitigation register.

Status: certification in progress
Scope: our detection & AI Guardian pipeline
HIPAA

HIPAA aligned

Aligned

For US healthcare customers. Business Associate Agreement (BAA) executable on Keep and Citadel. Controls aligned to the HIPAA Security Rule safeguards.

Frameworks: HIPAA Security Rule, HITECH
CIS
v8

CIS Controls v8

Self-assessed

Aligned to CIS Controls v8 across all 18 control families. Quarterly internal review, evidence available to customers in their portal.

Assessment: internal, against CIS Controls v8
Frameworks: CIS Controls v8
ADGM /
DIFC

ADGM & DIFC ready

Compliance pack maintained

For UAE financial-zone tenants. Mapped controls for ADGM Data Protection Regulations and DIFC Data Protection Law. Onshore data residency available out of UAE Central region.

Reference: ADGM DPR 2021, DIFC DP Law 2020
GDPR /
UK

GDPR & UK GDPR

DPA template available

EU and UK GDPR-aligned. Standard contractual clauses (2021) and IDTA in our DPA. Subprocessor list public and watchable.

DPO: [email protected]
EU rep: Permus EU B.V., Amsterdam
§ 02How we're built

Six architectural positions.

Trust starts with technical choices. These are the ones we made — and the ones we'd push back on if a customer asked us to compromise.

P 01

Tenant isolation, end-to-end.

Every customer's telemetry is logically isolated by tenant key from ingest through detection through retention. There is no analyst console that can join across tenants without a tenant-key claim derived from the customer's own SSO context.

  • Per-tenant encryption keys in AWS KMS · keys are customer-bindable on Citadel
  • Row-level security in ClickHouse with tenant-key as primary partition
  • Cross-tenant query audits reviewed quarterly; zero permissible cases
P 02

Encryption, everywhere.

In transit and at rest. We don't accept insecure transport even for low-sensitivity telemetry — there is no "but it's just metrics" exception in the spec.

  • TLS 1.3 required on all endpoints; 1.2 deprecated end-of-life Q3 2025
  • AES-256-GCM at rest, with envelope encryption per tenant
  • Mutual TLS for on-prem collector relays
  • HSM-backed key custody (AWS CloudHSM)
P 03

Least privilege, every shift.

Analysts get the least access they need to do the work in front of them. Privileged actions require fresh auth, are time-boxed, and are logged to an append-only audit ledger.

  • Just-in-time access via Okta workflows · 4-hour max grant
  • Quorum approval for cross-tenant or high-impact actions
  • Separation of duties between detection eng. and SOC ops
  • Append-only audit ledger · cryptographically signed, exportable to customer on request
P 04

Data residency, by design.

Your telemetry stays in the region you sign up in. We don't relocate data to chase compute price arbitrage. Cross-region transfer requires customer consent.

  • AU region: AWS ap-southeast-2 (Sydney)
  • UAE region: AWS me-central-1 (UAE) and Azure UAE Central
  • EU region: AWS eu-west-1 (Ireland) and eu-central-1 (Frankfurt)
  • US region: AWS us-west-2 (Oregon)
  • Disaster recovery is in-region; never cross-border without authorisation
P 05

AI with a human on top.

Models propose. Humans approve. The two narrow, customer-configured exceptions (high-confidence containment actions you pre-authorise) are the only places automation acts without an analyst in the loop — and you can pause them with a single switch.

  • Models trained on tenant-aggregate features, never raw cross-tenant data
  • Customer data is not used to train foundation models, full stop
  • Auto-response actions configurable per detection class, opt-in
  • ISO 42001 AI management system covers full model lifecycle
P 06

No data hostage, ever.

If you leave us, we hand your telemetry back. Not a portal export limited to last 30 days — your full retained event corpus, in a documented schema, to a destination you control.

  • Parquet-formatted export to S3 / GCS / Azure Blob
  • Schema documentation ships with the data
  • 30-day grace after termination before deletion
  • Deletion certificate issued on request
§ 03Architecture

A simplified view of the data path.

Detail your security team will care about. Full architecture diagrams (component-level, with VPC layouts, key custody, and trust boundaries) are available under MNDA.

DATA PATH · CUSTOMER → IRONCASTLE → ANALYST
Customer side · your trust boundary
Endpoint agentSigned binary · ≤90 MB · OS-level integrity check
Cloud connectorRead-only IAM · OAuth scopes · STS rotation
Identity log feedSAML / OIDC audit logs from your IdP
Network forwarderOptional · mTLS to ingest
Ingest & storage · IronCastle · per-region
TLS 1.3 ingestmTLS for collectors · HMAC-signed batches
Tenant taggingEnrich with tenant key · row-level partitioning
ClickHouse fabricAES-256-GCM at rest · per-tenant KMS keys
Detection engineAI scoring · MITRE mapping · run-book draft
Analyst & customer access · least-privilege boundary
SOC consoleJust-in-time access · quorum on high-impact actions
Owner portalPer-tenant SSO · row-level security · MFA enforced
Audit ledgerAppend-only · cryptographically signed
Customer exportParquet to your bucket · scheduled or on-demand
§ 04Subprocessors

Every vendor in our supply chain.

Public list, version-controlled. Customers are notified 30 days before any addition. Removals are silent.

VendorPurposeRegionData category
Amazon Web ServicesCompute, storage, KMSAU · UAE · EU · USAll telemetry & metadata
Microsoft AzureUAE region compute (UAE tenants)UAE CentralTelemetry · UAE-only customers
CloudflareEdge TLS, DDoS, WAFAnycast (region-locked routing)Connection metadata only
OktaWorkforce IdP for IronCastle staffMulti-regionStaff identity · no customer data
PagerDutyInternal incident pagingUSAlert summaries · tenant-pseudonymised
LinearInternal ticketingUSEngineering tickets · no customer data
StripeBillingUS · EU · AUBilling contact & payment metadata
AnthropicLLM inference for run-book draftingUS (no-train enterprise)Pseudonymised event summaries · no PII
OpenAIOptional fallback LLM (Enterprise opt-in)US (zero data retention enterprise)Same as Anthropic above
§ 05Documentation

What you'll read before you sign.

Every artefact a thorough security review needs, available before commercial close — most under MNDA, some public.

SOC 2 Type II report

PDF · 142 pp · MNDA

Full A-LIGN audit report with control descriptions, testing procedures, and any noted exceptions.

Request →

ISO 27001 Statement of Applicability

PDF · 38 pp · public

All 93 Annex A controls with applicability decisions and justifications.

Download →

Architecture deep-dive

PDF · 64 pp · MNDA

Component-level diagrams, key custody flows, trust boundaries, multi-region failover.

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Pen-test summary

PDF · 24 pp · MNDA

Bishop Fox annual external + internal engagement. Findings & remediation evidence.

Request →

Data Processing Addendum

DOCX · public · GDPR/UK SCCs

Pre-signed by Permus, fillable by you. Includes EU SCCs (2021) and UK IDTA.

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Subprocessor list (live)

JSON + RSS · public

Watchable feed. New additions notified 30 days in advance.

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Business Continuity & DR

PDF · 28 pp · MNDA

RTO/RPO targets, regional failover topology, last test results, runbook excerpts.

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Security questionnaire

CAIQ v4 · SIG Lite · public

Pre-completed CAIQ v4 and SIG Lite. We accept yours too — turnaround 5 business days.

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AI governance summary

PDF · 18 pp · public

ISO 42001-aligned summary of model lifecycle, training-data governance, human oversight.

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§ 06Vulnerability disclosure

Found something? Tell us.

We run a coordinated vulnerability disclosure program. Researchers acting in good faith will be acknowledged; serious findings on in-scope assets are eligible for bounties.

CONTACT
[email protected]
PGP fingerprint:
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RESPONSE TARGETS
Acknowledgement · 24 hr
Triage decision · 5 business days
Fix or mitigation · 30 days for HIGH+