Security
Built to be inspected.
NIIVO runs autonomous agents inside customer environments. That is only acceptable if every part of the system assumes it will be audited. This page describes the architecture; the whitepaper carries the detail.
Identity: named agents in the customer's tenant
Agents operate as named agent identities in the customer's own Microsoft Entra tenant (Microsoft Entra Agent ID). Every action appears in the customer's own audit logs, attributed to the specific agent that performed it.
- The customer's Conditional Access policies apply to agents
- Per-agent identities — no shared service accounts
- Customer-controlled kill switch revokes all agent access at once
Customer tenant (Microsoft Entra)
Credentials: brokered, never through the model
Credentials are brokered from Azure Key Vault at the moment of use. The AI model never sees a secret: prompts and completions contain no credentials by construction, not by policy.
- Secrets stay in Azure Key Vault
- Short-lived, scoped access per action
- Every credential access is itself an audit event
Audit: append-only and tamper-evident
Every action, credential access, and approval lands in an append-only, hash-chained audit trail. Each entry references the hash of the previous one, so removal or alteration is detectable. An operator can answer "what happened on this ticket" without trusting anyone's memory.
agent.action — password.reset
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credential.access — Key Vault
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approval.granted — via Teams
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Approvals: policy gates before risky actions
Every action class carries a policy: log, notify, or approve. Approval-gated actions pause until a human decides — delivered as interactive cards in Microsoft Teams. Per-customer tool blocking and spending caps bound what agents can do at all.
Reset MFA for a VIP account
Policy gate: approve
Delivered as a card in Microsoft Teams
Data residency: Switzerland
All processing runs on Microsoft Azure Switzerland North. Swiss data residency by default, nDSG-aligned. Audit trails and case data stay in-region.
AI safety posture
We map our controls to Microsoft's taxonomy of agentic-AI failure modes: scoped tools and per-customer blocking against misuse of capability, approval gates against consequential mistakes, identity and credential brokering against privilege escalation, and the audit chain against silent failure.
For your security reviewers
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