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.

Six active certifications, audited by named third parties. Reports available under MNDA before any commercial conversation.

SOC 2
TYPE II

SOC 2 Type II

Active · expires Mar 2026

Annual audit covering security, availability, processing integrity, and confidentiality. Continuous monitoring on the underlying controls.

Auditor: A-LIGN
Period: Apr 2024 – Mar 2025
Report: available under MNDA
ISO
27001

ISO/IEC 27001:2022

Active · re-cert Aug 2026

Information security management system. Statement of applicability covers all 93 Annex A controls, with documented justifications for any scoped exceptions.

Auditor: BSI Group
Cert no.: IS 814-2024
Scope: all Permus entities
ISO
9001

ISO 9001:2015

Active · re-cert Nov 2026

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.

Auditor: BSI Group
Cert no.: FS 814-2023
ISO
42001

ISO/IEC 42001:2023

Active · first issued 2025

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.

Auditor: BSI Group
Cert no.: AIMS 814-2025
One of the first 50 issued globally.
HIPAA

HIPAA aligned

Independently attested

For US healthcare customers. Business Associate Agreement (BAA) executable on Keep and Citadel. Annual independent attestation against the HIPAA Security Rule safeguards.

Attestor: Schellman
Frameworks: HIPAA Security Rule, HITECH
CIS
v8

CIS Controls v8

IG3 self-attested

Implementation Group 3 — the most stringent tier — across all 18 control families. Quarterly internal review, evidence available to customers in their portal.

Attestor: Self · validated by SOC 2 audit
Tier: IG3 (highest)
IRAP
OFFICIAL

IRAP — in progress

In assessment · target Q3 2026

Australian Information Security Registered Assessors Program assessment, targeting OFFICIAL: Sensitive. For Commonwealth and NSW state-government tenants.

Assessor: Pure Security
Sponsor: tba
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.

Request →

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.

Request →

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+