AI Security & Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR for AI Systems

The Compliance Challenge

Every enterprise deploying AI faces the same question from their security team: "Where does our data go?" AI APIs send potentially sensitive data to third-party model providers. Compliance frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR have specific requirements about data handling, storage, and processing.

Data Flow Security

import Vincony from "vincony";

const client = new Vincony({
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
  security: {
    // PII detection and redaction before data leaves your network
    pii: {
      detect: true,
      action: "redact_and_log",
      categories: ["names", "emails", "ssn", "credit_cards", "addresses", "phone_numbers"],
      custom_patterns: [
        { name: "employee_id", pattern: /EMP-d{6}/ },
        { name: "internal_project", pattern: /PRJ-[A-Z]{3}-d{4}/ }
      ]
    },
    // Encryption
    transit: "tls-1.3",
    at_rest: "aes-256-gcm",
    // Audit trail
    audit: {
      enabled: true,
      include_prompts: false,          // Don't log actual content
      include_metadata: true,          // Log model, tokens, user, timestamp
      export: "s3://audit-logs/"
    }
  }
});

SOC 2 Type II

SOC 2 requires controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Vincony's SOC 2 Type II certification covers: access controls and authentication, encryption in transit and at rest, change management and incident response, vendor management for model providers, and continuous monitoring.

HIPAA Compliance

For healthcare AI applications, HIPAA requires a Business Associate Agreement (BAA), PHI encryption, access logging, minimum necessary data principles, and breach notification procedures. Vincony offers HIPAA-eligible configurations with automatic PHI detection.

GDPR & Data Residency

// GDPR-compliant configuration
const client = new Vincony({
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
  gdpr: {
    data_residency: "eu-west-1",        // Data never leaves EU
    data_retention: "none",              // No data stored after response
    right_to_erasure: true,              // Support deletion requests
    consent_tracking: true,
    dpa_signed: true                     // Data Processing Agreement
  }
});

// Handle GDPR data subject requests
await client.gdpr.erasure({
  user_id: "user-123",
  scope: "all_data"                     // Delete all stored data for this user
});

Prompt Injection Prevention

Security isn't just about data — it's about adversarial inputs. Vincony's security layer detects and blocks prompt injection attempts, jailbreak attempts, and data exfiltration patterns before they reach the model.

Pricing

SOC 2 compliance features are included on Pro plans. HIPAA BAA, GDPR data residency, and custom security configurations require Enterprise plans. Security audits and penetration testing are available on request.