Step 04
Security & Compliance
Least privilege, audit logs, dependency review, secure SDLC, and readiness for SOC 2, ISO, GDPR, and HIPAA contexts.
Why this matters
Security decided at the start is a design input that costs a conversation. Retrofitted, it is an expensive rewrite that tends to arrive at the least convenient moment — usually when a customer, auditor or regulator asks a question the system cannot answer about its own behavior. This matters more for AI work than for conventional software, because a system whose output depends on data and models needs to be able to reconstruct why it did what it did on a particular day for a particular customer.
In practice
An honest note on compliance claims
LYVATE can build to the controls your auditors and compliance function specify, and can prepare the evidence a framework expects. What we cannot do is certify you, and no engineering firm can. Certification depends on your organization, your jurisdiction and an assessor's judgment. Where a page on this site mentions SOC 2, ISO, GDPR or HIPAA, it means readiness work and control implementation — never that a certification has been obtained on your behalf.
Described as how LYVATE runs this work. It is not an account of a completed client engagement.