Research & IP Protection

Protect Your Most Valuable
Intellectual Property

Proprietary algorithms, research data, and trade secrets are only as secure as the infrastructure they run on. DSEC OS provides hosting where data exfiltration is monitored at the kernel level and every access is logged.

Early access — accepting research organisations

Every Outbound Byte Is Accounted For

Traditional security focuses on keeping attackers out. But for organisations whose primary asset is intellectual property, the greater risk is often data leaving — whether through a compromised process, a misconfigured service, or an insider threat.

DSEC OS uses eBPF-based network policy enforcement to monitor and control all egress traffic at the process level. Unauthorised outbound connections are blocked and logged. You know exactly what data is moving, where, and which process initiated it.

  • eBPF per-process egress monitoring and control
  • Whitelist-only outbound network policies
  • All blocked connection attempts logged with process identity
  • Private network namespaces prevent cross-container lateral movement
  • No internet access by default — explicitly granted per workload
NETWORK POLICY — RESEARCH WORKLOAD
ALLOW egress → internal-db:5432
ALLOW egress → artifact-store:443
DENY egress → 0.0.0.0/0 (all external)
DENY egress → DNS external resolvers
— all violations logged with process ID —

Separate Research Streams Without Separate Infrastructure

Research organisations often run multiple projects with different confidentiality requirements — some collaborative, some proprietary, some under NDA. DSEC OS enforces strict isolation between workloads so you can run them all on the same infrastructure without cross-contamination risk.

  • SELinux MCS labels enforce project-level data separation
  • Each workload runs in its own network namespace
  • Per-container AppArmor profiles limit filesystem and capability access
  • Rootless containers with user namespace remapping
  • Seccomp syscall filtering per workload
Proprietary Algorithm R&D
ISOLATED
Collaborative Research
ISOLATED
NDA-Protected Client Work
ISOLATED
External Contractor Access
ISOLATED

Your Research Never Leaves Your Premises

Cloud hosting for sensitive research means trusting a third party's infrastructure, their employees, and their jurisdiction's legal framework for data access. For valuable IP, that trust model can be unacceptable.

DSEC OS runs on your hardware, in your facilities. Your research data, models, and algorithms never transit through infrastructure you don't control. Once we complete handover, the platform operates entirely under your authority.

  • On-premises deployment on your own hardware
  • No third-party data access — ever
  • Complete infrastructure ownership after provisioning
  • LUKS2 encryption at rest for all persistent storage
  • Secrets vault with runtime injection — no plaintext credentials
0
Third-Party Access
LUKS2
Encryption at Rest
100%
Egress Monitored
Your
Premises
Research & IP Protection

Your IP Deserves
Infrastructure to Match

If your organisation's competitive advantage lives in its research, algorithms, or proprietary data, we'd like to discuss how DSEC OS can protect it. We work with a small number of clients through our early access programme.