The enterprise AI privacy challenge
Customer support, internal copilots, and document Q&A systems must not leak PII or proprietary data to public model providers. Architecture decisions at design time determine compliance outcomes.
RAG done right
Chunk documents with metadata tags for access control. Use vector databases with tenant isolation. Filter retrieved context by user permissions before sending to the LLM.
Guardrails and audit trails
Input classifiers block PII submission. Output filters redact sensitive patterns. Log every prompt and response with user ID for compliance audits.
Deployment options
Choose between managed APIs with data processing agreements, VPC-hosted models on AWS Bedrock or Azure OpenAI, or fully on-premise open-weight models depending on regulatory requirements.