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Powering your data infrastructure
Securely connect data across boundaries
Apheris powers your data infrastructure with federated ML and analytics offering unprecedented ways to securely connect data across boundaries.
Ensuring security and privacy
Data and IP protection is at the core of Apheris. Our platform is designed around exceptionally high standards for security, privacy and governance.
Enterprise-grade security
Apheris supports the highest requirement to network security design and security protocols. You don’t need to move data you and you always stay in full control of your data and IP.
Access security
Restrict and monitor all authorized users:
- User authentication with multi-factor authentication
- Fine-grained data access policies
- User permissions / roles
- Enterprise single sign-on (SSO)
Data security
Processes and structures within the platform to safeguard sensitive data:
- Federated infrastructure
- Segregated users, projects and data
- User role-based access to data
- Encryption of data
- Data export control
System security
Maintain and monitor the system to ensure performant and secure operations:
- Disaster recovery
- Network security
- Backups
- Data isolation from compute environment
- Strict isolation between different tenants
- Audit logging
- Vulnerability scanning & penetration testing
- Cloud Security
- Physical & environmental security
- Resiliency
- Hardware virtualization
Certifiably secure
Apheris is ISO-27001 certified and meets requirements from HIPAA, GDPR and more.
Always protect data and IP and manage privacy risk
Apheris’ modular approach to privacy enables you to set the right level of privacy while maximising the analytical value of data.
Privacy controls on the computational level
Control access and privacy of your data via fine-granular asset policies:
- Raw data never leaves your environment
- Code audit (human-in-the-loop) functionality to assess custom code and enforce only audited code
- Approval mechanisms for computations and controls for returning results
Modular Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Apheris offers the benefits of various PETs in a suite of business-ready solutions:
- Privacy for statistics – bounding, rounding and differential privacy
- Adversarial attack testing – inference and reconstruction attacks
- Secure aggregation during federated learning
Support for differentially private ML - Support for cryptographic approaches
Compliance across privacy regulations
Govern your data in compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA or more:
- Federated infrastructure - data doesn’t need to move
- Audit logging
- Full compatibility with on-premises systems and data
- Geography-specific cloud environments
- Support for DPIAs and compliance audits
- GDPR compliant
Oversight in your data, workflows, and collaborations
The Apheris platform provides you full oversight for all your data, workflows, and collaborations – reducing risk, costs and supporting compliance audits.
Stay in full control of your data and IP, always
Manage your data collaborations via the 5 safes frameworks and securely access distributed data.
Safe people
Data access and usage is restricted to eligible users and all actions are traceable. Only accredited users are able to login to the Apheris platform with defined roles coupled to appropriate user rights. The logging system enables granular activity tracking for full auditability of which computations were run on which dataset by which user.
Safe projects
Collaborating parties leverage a transparent process for data access, being clear for which purpose they are using the data and resulting models. Traceable activities and computation results for participants and auditability of data usage for approved projects ensure trust among collaborating parties.
Safe settings
Data doesn’t need to move and stays under the full control of the data custodian. Data custodians control access to their data via asset policies. Industry-standard security controls are in place such as data encryption, no export of individual-level or raw source data, and the ability to track user activity.
Safe data
Collaborating parties agree on the data they are provisioning for federated training or analysis. Only necessary data (often de-identified) is registered in the platform. Data is encrypted both at rest and in transit. Individual-level data never leaves the Compute Gateway, and whatever aggregated data is returned is controlled via asset policies that the data custodian defines.
Safe outputs
Full control over the process to return results computed on the data. This prevents the unauthorised exfiltration of data from the Compute Gateway.
Fulfilling all security and compliance standards
MedTech
“The Apheris platform is our Trusted Research Environment of choice - their end-to-end solution fulfills all security and compliance standards for even the most sensitive data.”
Compliance officer Top-30 MedTech company
Related reading
Publication
Security of AI Systems: Fundamentals
Advising the German Federal Office for Information Security on the Security of AI-Systems, Apheris provides an overview on attack vectors and threats of AI systems where external data is used or trained models are exposed to third parties. Recommendations are derived on how to systematically safeguard and test AI-systems.
White Paper
Privacy and Security Whitepaper
Privacy and security considerations are an important part of adopting a federated infrastructure for machine learning and analytics. This whitepaper outlines the various security techniques and privacy controls used by Apheris to safely collaborate and build data applications and AI across organizational and geographical boundaries.
White Paper
Privacy-preserving Data Ecosystems in Support of Drug Discovery
In recent years, Deep Learning has gained considerable traction in many fields, but none more so than in the realm of drug discovery. Applications range from generating de novo hit-like molecules, predicting drug-disease associations and activity, toxicology estimation, to the analysis of medical images.