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Security & data residency

Last updated: 10 September 2026

Hosted operational data is stored in Azure Australia East. Advisory inference runs in Australia by default, with an on-site option. Access is tenant-scoped, and commands and AI usage are audited. Consystence is in public beta and does not hold ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification.

This page describes the controls and processing options behind the platform. It complements our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Data residency

Your platform data and your AI prompt content are processed in Australia by default.

Platform data
Cloud-hosted tenant data, historian and operational records are stored in Azure Australia East. Identity and other service processing are listed separately below.
AI inference
Production advisory inference runs on AWS Bedrock in Australia — Sydney (ap-southeast-2), with routing constrained to Australian regions. A direct Anthropic US path exists but is disabled by default.
On-premises
The site server runs on your infrastructure. Advisory inference can run on an on-site appliance, or be disabled. Deployment and external service connections determine which data leaves the site.
Cross-border
Billing (Stripe), website contact-form email (Resend), Cloudflare's global network, and Microsoft identity operate overseas. See the subprocessor register.

How your data is protected

  • Tenant isolation is architectural. Access to organisation data is tenant-scoped and enforced server-side. Cross-tenant tests check that requests cannot access another organisation’s data without authorisation.
  • Encryption in transit (TLS) across every service.
  • Authentication credentials are stored as hashes. Site PINs are salted and hashed (PBKDF2), programmatic API keys are HMAC-hashed with a separately-held pepper, and invitation and activation codes are stored as one-time SHA-256 hashes — with constant-time comparison throughout. New API keys and activation codes are shown once; verification uses their stored hashes.
  • Secrets at rest are encrypted with rotating data-protection keys.
  • Defensive session handling — HttpOnly, SameSite session cookies, failed-sign-in lockout, and rate limiting on authentication.

Identity and access

Sign-in is delegated to Microsoft Entra External ID (OpenID Connect) — we never see or store your password. Identity is keyed on your stable Microsoft object identifier, not an email string. Cloud and on-site authentication are two independent authorities by design: no site credential (such as an operator PIN) can ever authenticate cloud access, and no cloud credential reaches into a site. Access within an organisation is role-based (owner, admin, member), enforced server-side on every privileged action.

Advisory-only AI

  • It advises; it does not act. The AI tier reads plant state and recommends — it has no pathway to command equipment. Every command and every code deployment requires an explicit human confirmation the AI cannot bypass, and all control actions reach equipment only through your controllers on their established deterministic paths.
  • Processed in Australia, by default. As above, production inference runs on AWS in Australia.
  • Never trained on your data. We do not use your data or prompts to train machine-learning models, and our model providers operate under API terms that do not permit training on customer content.
  • Content-minimising audit. Our AI gateway holds no database, authenticates to AWS with short-lived federated credentials (never static keys), and its audit trail records cryptographic hashes of prompts and completions — never the text — with token and cost metering.

Operational accountability

Because the platform operates plant, it records who did what: equipment commands, alarm acknowledgements, and AI usage are attributed to the acting user, giving your organisation a durable operational audit trail. These records are described in thePrivacy Policy.

Compliance and assurance

We handle personal information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, and we assess suspected breaches under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. Our in-Australia residency and on-premises/air-gapped options are designed to support customers in critical-infrastructure sectors — such as mining and water — that carry their own regulatory obligations.

We can walk enterprise security teams through our architecture and controls in detail —contact us.

Reporting a vulnerability

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability, please tell us atsecurity@consystence.com. We welcome good-faith reports, will acknowledge them, and ask that you give us a reasonable opportunity to remediate before any public disclosure. Please do not run intrusive testing against production tenants or other customers' data.

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