Security & Trust

Enterprise security posture, engineered for sovereign workloads.

How we protect sovereign data, regulated systems, and enterprise AI for governments, banks, telecoms, and global ecosystems.

ISO 27001 Ready
SOC 2 Aligned
GDPR Compliant
Enterprise SLA-backed
Data Sovereignty Ready

Control framework

Nine pillars of enterprise trust

Each pillar maps to a section in our vendor security questionnaire response pack. Available under NDA for active RFPs.

01 — Infrastructure security

Hardened, segmented, sovereign-ready infrastructure

Production workloads run on hyperscaler and sovereign cloud regions with private networking, zero-trust segmentation, DDoS protection, and continuous configuration drift monitoring.

  • Private VPCs with no public ingress to application or data tiers
  • WAF, L3/L4 and L7 DDoS protection at the edge
  • Immutable infrastructure-as-code with peer-reviewed change control
  • Hardened OS baselines, CIS benchmarks, and continuous vulnerability scanning
  • Segregated environments (dev / staging / production) with no shared credentials

02 — Encryption

Encryption in transit, at rest, and in use

All customer and citizen data is encrypted using modern, audited primitives. Keys are managed in HSM-backed key management services with documented rotation and separation of duties.

  • TLS 1.3 enforced on all public endpoints; HSTS preloaded
  • AES-256 at rest across databases, object storage, and backups
  • Envelope encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK) on request
  • Field-level encryption for PII, financial, and biometric data
  • Confidential computing options for regulated AI inference workloads

03 — Data residency

Sovereign-by-design data residency

Data residency is configurable per tenant and per workload. We support in-country processing for government, banking, and telecom clients across African and global jurisdictions.

  • Regional pinning for storage, compute, backups, and logs
  • Cross-border transfer controls with documented legal basis
  • Schrems II–aware architecture for EU↔Africa data flows
  • Data classification taxonomy mapped to client regulatory regimes
  • Tenant-isolated databases for sensitive sovereign workloads

04 — Access control

Zero-trust identity and least privilege

Every human and machine identity is authenticated, authorised, and audited. Standing access to production is eliminated in favour of time-bound, just-in-time elevation.

  • SSO via SAML / OIDC with enforced phishing-resistant MFA
  • Role-based and attribute-based access control (RBAC + ABAC)
  • Just-in-time privileged access with approval workflows
  • Hardware-key authentication for engineers accessing production
  • Quarterly access recertification across all production systems

05 — Audit trails

Tamper-evident, queryable audit history

Every privileged action, data access, and configuration change is logged to an append-only audit pipeline retained for the duration of the contractual and regulatory window.

  • Centralised SIEM with 24/7 anomaly detection
  • Immutable, hash-chained audit logs with WORM storage
  • Per-tenant audit export in machine-readable formats
  • Linked identity, action, resource, and justification on every record
  • Regulator-ready audit packs for ID, banking, and telecom workloads

06 — AI governance

Governed AI lifecycle, not opaque models

Every model deployed for a client is inventoried, version-controlled, and gated by documented risk, bias, and performance reviews aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 principles.

  • Model registry with lineage, training data sources, and approvals
  • Pre-deployment bias, fairness, and robustness testing
  • Human-in-the-loop for high-impact decisions (credit, identity, public services)
  • Prompt, output, and tool-call logging for enterprise LLM systems
  • Customer data excluded from model training by default

07 — Compliance posture

Aligned to the standards procurement requires

Our control framework is designed to map cleanly into RFP and vendor risk assessments across government, banking, telecom, and multinational buyers.

  • ISO/IEC 27001 — Information Security Management (Ready)
  • SOC 2 Type II — Security, Availability, Confidentiality (Aligned)
  • GDPR + national data protection acts across operating jurisdictions
  • PCI DSS scope minimisation for payment-adjacent workloads
  • Enterprise SLA-backed availability and response commitments

08 — Responsible AI framework

Principles that bind every engagement

We will not ship AI systems that we cannot explain, monitor, or unwind. Our Responsible AI framework is contractual, not aspirational.

  • Lawful, fair, and transparent processing of personal data
  • Explainability and recourse for any automated decision affecting a citizen or customer
  • Documented red-team and abuse-case reviews before production
  • Sovereign override: clients retain the right to disable, audit, or extract any model
  • Continuous post-deployment monitoring for drift and harm

09 — Incident response

Rehearsed response, contractual notification

Incidents are detected, contained, and communicated under a documented runbook with named accountable owners and regulator-aware notification timelines.

  • 24/7 on-call with tiered severity classification
  • Documented containment, eradication, and recovery playbooks
  • Customer notification within contractual SLA windows
  • Forensic preservation and root-cause analysis for every P1/P2
  • Annual tabletop exercises with executive and client participation

For procurement & vendor risk

Vendor security pack, available under NDA

Full control documentation, sub-processor list, data flow diagrams, BCP/DR posture, and regulator-ready audit packs are available to qualified buyers under mutual NDA. Typical turnaround: two business days.

Security disclosures, vulnerability reports & compliance enquiries: security@zuritechglobal.com

RFP / procurement pack: proposals@zuritechglobal.com

  • SIG / SIG Lite questionnaire response
  • Sub-processor & data-flow inventory
  • BCP / DR test summary
  • Penetration test executive summary
  • Insurance certificates on request

Talk to ZuriTech

Scope a Cybersecurity Readiness Review.

Zero-trust, identity, SOC and regulatory readiness — packaged into a senior-led engagement with NDA-ready intake.

  • 24-hour response SLA — 1 hour for high-priority sectors
  • NDA-ready intake · RFP upload · secure routing
  • Senior-partner-led delivery on every engagement

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