Kiteworks Compliant AI
Secure Data Governance for AI Agents
Your AI agents are already inside your most sensitive workflows. They are reading protected health information, handling controlled unclassified information, pulling client financial records, and touching legally privileged documents, right now, at a scale no human workforce ever could. Your auditors know it. Your regulators are catching up fast. And HIPAA, CMMC, PCI DSS, SEC, and SOX do not contain an exemption for AI agents. Every access control requirement, every encryption mandate, every audit log obligation your organization already carries applies to every agent interaction with regulated data. Most enterprises are deploying agents without the governance infrastructure to prove it. Kiteworks Compliant AI changes that by governing the data layer directly: every agent authenticated, every access policy-enforced, every data interaction encrypted to FIPS 140-3 and captured in a tamper-evident audit log, before anything moves.
Regulators Govern Data, Not Models or Agents
Whether your organization runs Claude, GPT-4o, or a proprietary model is immaterial to a compliance auditor. What matters is what data the agent accessed, whether access was authorized, whether it was encrypted, and whether it was logged. Kiteworks answers all four questions for every agent interaction, automatically.
AI Agents Have No Scruples About Data Access
Unlike human employees who recognize a policy violation and escalate, AI agents will access any data, call any tool, and trigger any function they are not explicitly prevented from using. System prompts and model-level guardrails are not audit-defensible controls. Only governance enforced at the data layer is.
Governance Built Into the Architecture, Not Bolted On
Kiteworks Compliant AI sits between your AI agents and the regulated data they need. Every interaction passes through identity verification, policy evaluation, validated encryption, and audit logging before any data moves. When your auditor asks how you control AI access to sensitive data, the answer is an evidence package, not an investigation.
Four Governance Pillars for Every Agent Interaction
Kiteworks Compliant AI enforces four controls on every agent data interaction before any data moves:
Purpose-Built Governed Assists for Regulated Data Operations
Kiteworks ships three Governed Assists, each enforced end-to-end by the Data Policy Engine:
- Governed Folder Operations Assist: AI agents create and manage compliant folder hierarchies using natural language, with access controls applied automatically
- Governed File Management Assist: AI agents handle the full data lifecycle, satisfying retention, access, and disposal requirements
- Governed Forms Creation Assist: AI agents generate governed forms, with submissions routed to policy-governed storage
The Answer Every Stakeholder Needs
- CISO: Every agent interaction is authenticated, policy-governed, FIPS 140-3 encrypted, and logged in a tamper-evident audit log feeding your SIEM.
- CCO: Produce audit-ready evidence packages in hours, pre-mapped to HIPAA, CMMC, PCI DSS, SEC, and SOX.
- CIO: Governance is built into the architecture so AI projects deploy at speed without compliance debt.
- GC: Every agent interaction is logged and policy-governed. When inquiry or litigation arrives, the evidence is already compiled.
Compliance Is an Architecture Decision, Not an Afterthought
Most enterprises address AI compliance through manual review processes that bottleneck deployment and cannot scale. Kiteworks embeds governance directly into the data access layer, so every agent workflow inherits compliance controls automatically.
- No post-deployment patching.
- No manual review layer.
- No compliance debt accumulating with every new agent you deploy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Regulators focus on the data accessed by AI systems, not the specific models or agents used. They are concerned with whether access was authorized, if the data was encrypted, whether interactions were logged, and if proper governance was in place. Kiteworks ensures compliance by automatically addressing these concerns for every agent interaction.
Kiteworks Compliant AI enforces governance by sitting between AI agents and regulated data, ensuring every interaction undergoes identity verification, policy evaluation, validated encryption, and audit logging before any data is accessed or moved. This built-in architecture provides audit-ready evidence packages.
Kiteworks enforces four key controls for every AI agent data interaction: authenticated agent identity linked to a human authorizer, attribute-based access policy at the operation level, FIPS 140-3 validated encryption in transit and at rest, and a tamper-evident audit log integrated with your SIEM system.
In wealth management, Kiteworks enables AI agents to produce SEC-defensible workflows, such as quarterly portfolio review packages. It authenticates agents, enforces client-specific access scopes, encrypts interactions, and provides a complete auditable record, eliminating the need for manual compliance reviews.
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