VaultSage: AI Without The Risk
Generative Artificial Intelligence has changed the way we work in a few short years. It helps us search for documents, automates tedious tasks, summarizes content, and helps us draft emails. Used correctly, AI makes us more productive and more efficient.
Not everyone can easily realize those benefits, however. Many organizations in regulated industries face a tough choice: embrace the power of AI or risk falling behind.
Most AI tools require you to upload your files to the cloud, which can introduce risk.
That’s a problem for companies with sensitive data, strict compliance requirements, or concerns about copyright and licensing. For these organizations, compliance isn’t optional.
Fortunately, there’s now a way for regulated industries to embrace both AI and data security. VaultSage is a secure, encrypted solution that allows you to leverage AI while keeping your data safe.
The AI privacy paradox
We have a lot of data these days. In fact, we have so much data, it’s hard to know where all of it is. It’s even harder to find the data you need quickly. Your teams are drowning in internal documents — PDFs, Word files, presentations, technical specs, SOPs, contracts — and they waste countless hours hunting for the right information. AI could transform that chaos into clarity.
However, this is where you can run into problems with data security. Giving AI access to your proprietary files usually means uploading them to a third-party cloud, to be stored, analyzed, and sometimes even retained by the provider.
This can cause several problems:
Loss of data control
When you upload data to a cloud AI provider (especially to a free service), you're often giving up more than you realize. Even if a vendor claims they won’t train their models on your data, the terms of service may allow them to store it, analyze it, or share it with third parties. That’s a serious problem when your files contain:
- Patient records (HIPAA)
- Financial transactions (FINRA, SOX, GLBA)
- Client-attorney privileged communications
- Classified or export-controlled data (ITAR, CMMC)
To remain compliant, regulated industries must be able to prove they’re protecting data, but once data leaves their infrastructures, proving compliance becomes a lot more difficult.
Unclear data residency and jurisdiction
Cloud providers often store data in multiple locations around the world. For organizations subject to data residency laws (such as GDPR in Europe or data localization rules in finance and healthcare) this can cause confusion and non-compliance.
When data is in the public cloud, you may not know:
- Where your data is being stored
- Who has access to it
- Which country’s laws apply
This lack of transparency can expose you to regulatory violations, legal disputes, and breaches of customer trust.
Audits, access, and accountability
Regulated organizations must be able to show who accessed what data, when, and why. That’s difficult to do when you rely on third-party AI tools that don’t offer full audit trails or user-level visibility.
Copyright and licensing issues
If you upload licensed or copyrighted documents (like legal databases, research publications, or third-party code) to a generative AI tool, you may risk violating your contracts. Many cloud AI tools reserve broad rights over any uploaded data, even if they claim to “respect privacy.”
If your data includes licensed material that can’t be redistributed or repurposed, you may inadvertently be breaching your agreements, or even contributing it to someone else’s training dataset.
The threat of data leakage
AI models don’t always “forget.” Even when they’re not explicitly trained on your data, cloud-based models can leak sensitive information through repeated queries, prompts, or API use. That means that if an employee mistakenly uploads a document with personal or confidential data, you may not be able to remove it.
How can you keep your data safe while leveraging AI?
To safely reap the benefits of AI in a regulated industry, you need solutions that are:
- On-premise or private-cloud deployable
- Compliant with industry-specific regulations
- Integrated with your access controls and audit systems
- Transparent about data handling and retention
- Capable of processing documents without storing or learning from them
In short, you need AI on your terms. That’s where NURIE AI’s VaultSage comes in.
VaultSage: AI you can use securely
VaultSage is a private AI solution that plugs into your existing file systems — SharePoint, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, or even local servers — and gives you conversational AI access to your internal documents.
VaultSage is built to work where your files already live:
- Secure by design: With advanced permission settings, multi-factor authentication, and encrypted sharing, VaultSage lets you stay in control of your own data.
- Document-native intelligence: VaultSage understands file structures, document hierarchies, and embedded relationships across formats (contracts, spreadsheets, even code).
- Compliance-ready: Whether you're dealing with GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, or other regulatory frameworks, VaultSage fits into your compliance strategy.
You don’t have to choose between innovation and information security. With VaultSage, you can unlock the power of AI inside your organization without risking your IP, violating compliance, or compromising trust.
Ready to give it a try? Learn more about VaultSage by NURIE AI.