Zero Trust for the AI era
Keep AI under owner control — secure private infrastructure that AI runs on, and enforce cyber discipline on agents themselves — whether from cloud platforms or otherwise — with a human in the loop when it matters
Traditional network security is no match for AI chaos
AI is another cloud layer — with the same centralized vulnerabilities, a high-value target in its own right, and the ability to act in ways its owners never intended. Despite this, AI is becoming woven into how organizations operate — drawing on data from across the enterprise, connecting to cloud and third-party AI services, with full access to critical systems and networks — all while being adopted by far more users and systems than anyone planned for at the outset. Its boundary expands faster than it can be governed, with potentially catastrophic risks for organizations that have no visibility or control.
Containment and control of AI have not yet been solved. Decades-old network security, such as firewalls and VLANs, is built for statically deployed workloads. When AI is introduced into such an environment, it is simply beyond the capacity of these tools to enable IT staff to keep up — or even understand the impacts. SDNs and cloud-based Zero Trust solutions bring a more robust approach, but are far beyond the reach of most organizations in their cost and complexity.
Faction applies owner-controlled Zero Trust to the networking and hardware layers beneath AI — the foundation everything else depends on — and adds a non-bypassable control layer whose root of trust is anchored in hardware and bound to humans. And it does so without the cost and complexity that put SDN and cloud Zero Trust out of reach: Faction is turnkey, low-cost, and runs with minimal IT support — enterprise-grade protection an organization of any size can own and manage itself.
Secure Private AI Infrastructure
For organizations running AI on-premise or in private cloud — and for the platforms that support that model — Faction secures the foundation everything depends on. It takes the entire AI infrastructure off the public internet and ensures that authorized humans control access and remain accountable.
- Data servers — the data used to train and feed AI
- AI models — the intelligence that directs agents
- AI governance — the software that keeps AI behaving
- MCP servers — access to your resources and secure connections to third parties
Move private AI infrastructure off the public internet and into a Faction Virtual Private Circuit — where it can't be seen, scanned, or reached from the outside, and access is controlled by the humans you authorize and can hold accountable.
- Default OS biometrics
- 5-Factor human identity verification
- Escalation to out-of-band, human-to-human authentication with multi-step workflows
- Zero cloud attack surface
- No anonymous actors — no hidden addresses are possible
- Accountability — every agent is tied to the humans who authorize and direct it
Cyber Discipline & Control of Agentic AI
Even well-secured AI can act in ways you didn't intend. Faction monitors and enforces cyber discipline on AI agents — and when something goes wrong, the control layer ensures enforcement actually works, with a human in the loop.
- Faction Trust & Control Layer governs AI access and contains the blast radius.
- AI Cyber Guardian — advising, monitoring, and enforcing cyber discipline at machine speed with human-in-the-loop escalation.
- Human approval with un-bypassable enforcement at the moments that matter.
- Cryptographic kill switch guarantees human-in-the-loop control.
Faction enforces cyber discipline at machine speed and keeps a human in the loop where it counts — with enforcement no agent can bypass.
What Faction brings to AI security
The outcomes cloud-native SDN and Zero Trust platforms promise — delivered through an architecture that gives you ownership and control of trust, all with a cost and ease of use that makes it accessible.
Off the public internet
Your AI infrastructure isn't reachable or scannable from the internet — and the control plane stays off the public internet entirely.
Owner-held keys
You create and control your own trust relationships and encryption keys. Faction routes your traffic but can't read what you protect.
Authorization for every access
Faction and iValt bind every access to verified human identity, so only authorized users reach AI — and controls govern what data the AI itself can access.
Contained by default
AI instances are segmented so a breach can't move laterally. The blast radius is held to one place, not the whole estate.
Protected from exfiltration
An owner-keyed data plane keeps training data and model parameters from leaving — the very data attackers routinely exfiltrate elsewhere.
Connect across your estate
Connect AI workloads on-premise, in the cloud, and at the edge — the Faction Virtual Private Circuit overlay network makes connecting across complex hybrid infrastructure easy.
Secures OT & IoT
Extend the same owner-controlled trust to the vulnerable OT & IoT machines and devices that software-only tools can't reach.
Human-in-the-loop control
AI agents act under un-bypassable enforcement, with human approval and a cryptographic kill switch at the moments that matter.
Hardware-anchored trust
The root of trust is anchored in hardware you own, not promised by software policy or cloud servers completely out of your control and visibility.
Zero Trust Compliance
Owner-controlled Zero Trust across identity, devices, networks, applications, and data — aligned to the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model.
Deploy without rip-and-replace
Faction Pods & Portals deploy in minutes behind existing routers, with no changes to your network or equipment — or Factionize the infrastructure you already have.
Independently verified
Continuous, independent verification of Zero Trust network integrity; Pods and Portals cyber assured in the USA with ORION.
A different architecture — not a fancier version of the same one
Cloud-native tools can't deliver owner-controlled trust without giving up the centralized architecture and model their business depends on. Compared by category.
| Capability | Business VPNs | ZTNA+ | Enterprise SDN | Faction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No central cloud attack point | ✕ | ◐ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Real protection for OT / IoT equipment | ✕ | ◐ | ◐ | ✓ |
| AI security & control layer resilient to cloud / AI compromise | ✕ | ✕ | ◐ | ✓ |
| Low cost, minimal IT support required | ◐ | ◐ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Customer holds the keys, not the vendor | ✕ | ◐ | ✕ | ✓ |
Own your trust. Keep your peace of mind.
The new threat environment calls for a new Zero Trust model. We'd welcome the chance to show you how Faction puts you in control and secures your critical systems and assets rapidly with low cost and IT overhead.