Findings Are an Attack Plan

A vulnerability report is not just any dataset. It describes exactly where and how you can be attacked. If that report sits in a foreign cloud, or passes through systems you don't control, you have handed your vulnerability out of your own hands. A leaked finding is a ready-made instruction manual.

Where the Data Sits Is Decided by the Law

For a security tool, what matters is not just the storage location but the jurisdiction. The US CLOUD Act obliges US providers to hand over data regardless of where it is stored. The GDPR, in Article 48, only recognizes an order from a third country's authorities if an international agreement exists. This tension hits vulnerability data and AI prompts especially hard.

EU jurisdictionGDPR Art. 48: access by third-country authorities only via an international agreement.
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US CLOUD ActData handover by US providers, regardless of storage location.

The same data, two legal jurisdictions. For a security tool, this concerns the most sensitive data there is.

The Supply Chain Is a Security Risk

Locking yourself into a single, often non-European provider is a supply chain risk. The EU agency ENISA estimated the number of supply chain attacks for 2021 at roughly four times the previous year's, about half of them attributed to sophisticated actors. The SolarWinds incident (CISA Emergency Directive 21-01, December 2020) showed how a compromised supplier becomes a gateway into thousands of organizations.

AI Requires Particular Care Here

When AI helps with analysis, information about your vulnerabilities leaves your own domain. What matters, therefore, is: processing through a provider within your own jurisdiction, masking sensitive data before every request, no use of your data for model training, and stateless requests. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) also stresses the duty of care in processing within AI models in its Opinion 28/2024.

Rule of thumb

The more a tool knows about your weaknesses, the more sovereign it must be. A security tool knows the most.

How Venedy Implements This

Venedy runs on European infrastructure and uses an EU AI provider. Secrets are masked before every AI request, your data does not flow into model training. Every finding comes with its complete log. That way, the most sensitive software in your house stays the most traceable, too.

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