Trust & security

Bring this page to your risk team

Data security is the first question we hear, and the one we most like answering. This page says plainly how your documents are held, who can see them, and what we will put in writing.

Security is a design principle of this platform, not something added to it afterwards. Confidentiality, integrity and availability decide how it is built, run and operated.

Our team has over 50 years of managing corporate IT infrastructure behind them, and the platform is built on that experience. Questions for your security team go to cybersecurity@unseen.id.

How it holds up

Three things a risk team checks, and where we stand on each

Security

Platform infrastructure The platform runs on Google Cloud Platform and AWS infrastructure services. Secure, robust, resilient and scalable.
Security infrastructure A layered approach to protecting data. Relationship-based access control, least privilege access, secure software development, and encryption at rest and in transit.
Security operations We monitor the platform and its perimeter for malicious activity continuously, with a best-in-class security operations partner.
Platform security A zero trust approach to user access. Every user authenticates with a validated email address and an encrypted token, and user management gives you visibility of your data and your user community.

Stability

Uptime and availability Expected monthly uptime meets or exceeds 99.0%. Customers get a dedicated support portal for logging service and support requests.
Backup and recovery All platform data is backed up for disaster recovery. Recovery procedures mean services and data can be restored quickly if the underlying infrastructure is lost.
Resiliency The platform scales on demand, so performance holds as demand for resources grows.

Protection

User access administration Comprehensive access controls give your administrators visibility of every data set and of which users can reach it.
Data governance Tools to import and manage your own data, a full data audit capability, and the ability to roll data back to a prior version. Platform-provided data sets are read-only.
Data residency All data in the platform is stored and processed in Google's and AWS's Australian availability zones.
Compliance

Certified, assessed, and happy to show the paperwork

BSIGlobal ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management, certified SOC 2 Type 1
  • We subscribe to global, local and industry standards and codes of practice, and are certified against ISO 27001:2022 by BSIGlobal. The certificate and Statement of Applicability are available on request.
  • We hold a SOC 2 Type 1 report, and we have self-assessed against NIST SP 800-171. The report summary and the self-assessment are available on request.
  • We are a member of the Australian Cyber Security Centre Business Partner program, and we are pursuing certification against ISO 42001:2023 for AI management systems.
  • ISO 27001:2022 certified
  • SOC 2 Type 1
  • Hosted in Australia
  • Row-level access control
  • Full audit trails
FAQs

Some of the most common Security and Risk questions we get asked

Data and security

Where is our data stored? +

On Google Cloud Platform infrastructure in Australia. The core application and customer databases are hosted there. Other residency can be arranged per engagement and is written into the contract.

How is it encrypted? +

AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, on a zero-trust approach to data and user access. Cloud security operations systems monitor the platform and its perimeter, and external penetration testing is conducted periodically.

Is our data in its own environment, or a shared one? +

The platform is shared. Segregation is enforced by the permissioning system, which applies access control at row level inside individual tables. Entitlements are resolved at query time and applied to the retrieval layer before the model is invoked, so a query only ever reaches records the requesting user is entitled to.

What certifications do you hold? +

ISO 27001:2022, certified by BSIGlobal. We hold a SOC 2 Type 1 report. We are pursuing certification against ISO 42001:2023 for AI management systems, and we have self-assessed against NIST SP 800-171. The certificate, Statement of Applicability, report summary and the self-assessment are available on request.

Who at Unseen can see our data? +

Nominated members of the Unseen team, for analysis and operational support. Their access is logged like anyone else's.

Is the platform backed up? +

Yes, at infrastructure level and at database level. Backups are encrypted and stored separately from the platform, and no individual, Unseen technical staff included, can reach individual data elements inside a backup.

How long do you keep our data? +

For the length of the contract, or as otherwise agreed. Data held in backups is retained until the backup set is deleted, typically two years from creation.

What uptime should we expect? +

Typical availability meets or exceeds 99.0%. The platform runs on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and scales with user and processing load.

What happens when something goes wrong? +

A structured incident management process captures the incident and manages communication to affected stakeholders, with defined escalation and notification paths.

Is activity logged? +

Every interaction is traced and logged, including the requesting user, the query, the data scope retrieved and the output returned. The underlying cloud environment is continuously monitored for security and configuration issues with Rapid7 and Google Security Command Centre. Monitoring is real time, confirmed daily, and reviewed by management at least monthly.

Access and permissions

Who decides who can see what? +

You do. Permissions are granted by your own administration team through the Unseen Admin Portal. We provision the first administrator account, and every account and permission after that is under your control.

How do permissions work? +

Roles are assigned to groups, users inherit the roles of the groups they belong to, and groups are granted access to individual assets or portfolios and the buildings under them.

Can access be scoped to a few buildings rather than a whole portfolio? +

Yes. Access is granted at the level of individual assets and their buildings, not only whole portfolios, so someone can be entitled to three buildings out of thirty.

How do people sign in? +

With their work email address and a one-time token sent to it, or through your own single sign-on, integrated following OIDC best practice.

How do we review who has access? +

Your administration team can generate permission roll-ups and reports from the Admin Portal for audit and review.

AI safeguards

Could someone reach data they are not entitled to by asking the right question? +

No, and it does not depend on the model behaving. A user's entitlements are resolved server-side before the query runs, and the retrieval layer returns only the records that user is permitted to see. The model reasons over that filtered set alone. Records outside the entitlement are excluded before the model runs, so rephrasing cannot surface them.

Why does that distinction matter? +

A control that depends on the model recognising and refusing an improper request is probabilistic. Constraining the query to the user's entitlements before it runs is deterministic. We rely on the deterministic constraint, with input sanitisation, system-prompt hardening and monitoring behind it as defence in depth.

Do you use public AI models? Does our data reach them? +

We use a mix of privately hosted models and privately accessed services such as Google Vertex AI, reached over authenticated APIs. Data is not sent to public models.

Is our data used for training? +

Not for public model training. Where you approve it, your data is used to test features built for your requirements, so that what the platform does to your data stays verifiable end to end.

What stops an instruction hidden inside a document from being obeyed? +

Document content is retrieved as data through tools and kept separate from the system's own instructions. Adversarial text embedded in a lease or a valuation report is read as evidence, not as a command.

What stops someone extracting everything, or overwhelming the platform? +

Request rate limiting and concurrency caps apply at the platform edge, sized above normal working patterns so ordinary analyst work is unaffected. Sustained abnormal volume triggers throttling. These limits apply to queries, not to how much data you ingest or store.

Can the system be pushed outside what it is meant to do? +

Queries are scope-bound. A request falling outside the defined data and functional boundary is refused rather than attempted, each component is constrained to its own area of expertise, and tracing across every interaction lets us monitor for anomalous behaviour.

Getting your documents in

What can we send you? +

Excel and PDF today, with more formats to follow. Where a direct connection is wanted, our APIs can read from your existing back-end databases, so there is no need to stand up a new data store.

How much do we have to prepare? +

Nothing. Upload the documents to the agreed location and our team handles ingestion from there.

Are there size limits, and does storage cost extra? +

No restrictions on file sizes, and we do not charge for storage. Keep as much on the platform as your work requires.

Should we strip out sensitive fields first? +

You are welcome to remove any fields you would rather not have ingested.

What about personal data? +

The platform does not support the ingestion of private data or personally identifiable information. Remove it from the dataset before uploading.

Something here you need in writing, or a question we have not answered?

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