Security & Governance

Security that adapts to your environment,
not the other way around.

Every VOC workspace is designed on a defense-in-depth baseline — identity, encryption, auditability, and governed AI — then aligned during technical discovery with the standards your organization already operates under.

“Security architecture is configured according to the client's hosting environment, regulatory requirements, risk profile, and internal IT policies.”

This is the operating principle behind every VOC deployment. We do not force a one-size-fits-all posture — we implement the controls your environment requires.

Deployment Environments

Designed for your security environment

A VOC workspace is the operational layer above your existing systems — so it deploys where your security organization wants it to run. The final security architecture is defined during technical discovery and aligned with the customer's infrastructure, policies, regulatory requirements, and risk profile.

Customer Azure

The workspace deploys into your own Azure tenant. Entra ID, Key Vault, VNets, and your cloud governance apply directly; VOC builds and maintains the application within them.

Customer AWS

The workspace runs in your own AWS account under your IAM policies, KMS keys, and VPC design — your organization retains account-level control throughout.

VOC-managed cloud

VOC provisions and operates a dedicated, isolated environment for your workspace — typically the fastest deployment path, with customer-managed keys available as an option.

Private cloud

The workspace runs on private-cloud or on-premises infrastructure you operate, entirely inside your network perimeter, with every infrastructure control in your hands.

Hybrid

Components can be split across environments — for example, the application in your cloud tenant with specific data stores kept on-premises — where your policies require it.

Not sure which fits? That is exactly what technical discovery is for — the deployment environment is selected with your IT and security teams, not for them.

Discuss Your Operation
Capabilities

Security capabilities across the stack

Four control domains cover every VOC workspace — from the identity layer through the development pipeline.

Role-based access control

Permissions are scoped by role, module, and record type, so every user sees exactly what their function requires — nothing more.

SSO via SAML & OIDC

Workspaces integrate with your identity provider — Entra ID, Okta, Ping, and other SAML 2.0 or OIDC platforms — for centralized sign-on.

Multi-factor authentication

MFA is enforced through your identity provider or natively in the workspace, with support for authenticator apps and hardware keys.

Least-privilege defaults

New accounts start with minimal rights. Elevated access is granted explicitly, time-bounded where required, and visible in the audit trail.

Provisioning & deprovisioning

User lifecycle can follow your directory: joiners are provisioned by role, and leavers lose access the moment they are deactivated upstream.

Session & token controls

Configurable session timeouts, token expiry, and concurrent-session limits align workspace behavior with your access policies.

Shared Responsibility

Who secures what — honestly

Enterprise security is layered. Some controls are engineered by VOC, some are inherited from the cloud provider, and some are enterprise options you choose to enable. Here is the split, plainly.

Built by VOC

Platform capabilities

Controls engineered into every workspace and maintained by VOC.

  • Role-based access, SSO integration, MFA enforcement
  • Application-layer encryption configuration
  • Audit trails and activity logging
  • Secure development lifecycle and code review
  • AI governance and prompt/response logging
Inherited from cloud

Cloud-provider capabilities

Controls inherited from Microsoft Azure or AWS when workspaces run on their infrastructure.

  • Physical data-center security and hardware controls
  • Infrastructure compliance programs maintained by the provider
  • Network backbone protection and DDoS mitigation
  • Regional redundancy and availability zones
  • Managed encryption services and key infrastructure

Provider compliance attestations apply to their infrastructure — they are not certifications of the VOC application itself.

Optional controls

Optional enterprise controls

Additional controls enabled per engagement to meet stricter internal or regulatory requirements.

  • Customer-managed encryption keys (CMK / BYOK)
  • Private networking, VPN, or peered connectivity
  • Log export to your SIEM (Sentinel, Splunk, and others)
  • DLP integration with your existing tooling
  • IP allowlisting and conditional access policies
Certification Roadmap

Roadmap — not current certifications

We tell you exactly where we are. VOC does not currently hold formal certifications; the items below are planned or on our roadmap, and we build to their control expectations today.

In practice today

Security capability baseline

Identity, encryption, audit, and secure-SDLC controls described on this page are implemented in current deployments.

Planned

SOC 2 Type I readiness assessment

An independent readiness assessment against the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria — planned, not yet completed.

Roadmap

SOC 2 Type II

A full observation-period audit is on our roadmap following Type I readiness. No SOC 2 report exists today.

Roadmap

ISO 27001 alignment review

A structured review of our ISMS practices against ISO 27001 controls — roadmap item; we do not claim ISO 27001 certification.

Regulatory requirements, per engagement

If your organization operates under HIPAA, GDPR, GLBA, or sector-specific frameworks, those requirements are scoped during discovery and reflected in the workspace's architecture, hosting model, and contractual terms.


Clients' regulatory and compliance requirements are addressed per engagement. Nothing on this page constitutes a certification claim or a substitute for your own compliance review.
Hosting Models

Security posture by hosting model

Where your workspace runs determines who controls each layer. Select a model to see how responsibility for identity, keys, network, and backups is assigned.

Fastest to deploy

Control ownership for the selected hosting model
Control areaControlled byHow it works

All four models retain the same application-layer controls: RBAC, audit trails, encryption in transit and at rest, and governed AI usage.

IT Ownership

Can your IT team control it?

Yes — that is the design intent, not a concession. A VOC workspace is designed to sit inside your IT organization's governance, not alongside it.

Customer-controlled identity

Your identity provider governs sign-on, MFA, and lifecycle — users are created, changed, and revoked in your directory, not in a vendor console.

Permissions mapped to your org

Roles and record-level access mirror your actual org structure and approval chains — configured with your administrators, adjustable without code changes.

IT at every architecture gate

Your IT and security teams participate in the executive gates at architecture, prototype, and go-live — nothing reaches production without their review.

Client-hosted options

Where policy demands it, the workspace runs in your tenant, account, or data center — and standing VOC access can be reduced to supervised sessions or removed.

Questions

Security FAQs

The questions security and IT teams ask first — answered directly.

Wherever you decide it should. Workspaces deploy to a VOC-managed cloud environment, your own Azure tenant or AWS account, or your own infrastructure. Region selection follows your residency requirements, and each client's data is stored in its own isolated environment — never in a shared multi-tenant database.
Your users, under the roles and permissions your administrators define. VOC engineers access production environments only for agreed support and maintenance activities, under least-privilege accounts, and every access is captured in the audit trail. In client-hosted models, you can restrict VOC access further — or remove standing access entirely.
AI features run under explicit governance: models do not train on your client data by default, AI access respects the same role-based permissions as the rest of the workspace, and prompts and responses are logged in the audit trail. Model providers, data-handling terms, and any human-review boundaries are documented per engagement, and AI features can be scoped or disabled by policy.
Yes. Customer-managed keys, deployment into your own Azure tenant or AWS account, private networking, IP allowlisting, and SIEM log export are all supported as optional enterprise controls. The right combination is selected during discovery based on your risk profile and IT policies.
Your data is yours — that is contractual, not a courtesy. At the end of an engagement, data is exported to you in standard formats and then deleted from VOC-managed environments on a documented schedule, with confirmation provided. In client-hosted models, the data never leaves your environment in the first place.

Bring your security requirements.
We'll design to them.

Walk through identity, hosting, and governance decisions with our team — typically starting with one department, expanding when the value is proven.