Secure AI Adoption
Put AI to work. Keep control of your data.
We help your team adopt AI tools and AI agents safely, with the same discipline we use on HIPAA and SOC 2. AI does the legwork. Our experts stay accountable for every finding.
AI moved in faster than the rules did
Your team is already using AI to draft, summarize, and analyze. Now AI agents are arriving too: tools that don't just answer questions but take actions, connect to your email, files, and systems, and run on their own. That's a real advantage. But most teams are adopting it faster than they're governing it. Nobody is sure what the agents can reach. Nobody wrote down what data they're allowed to touch. And when a customer, an auditor, or a regulator asks how you control it, there's no good answer yet. That's where we come in.
Four steps, one accountable team
01
Assess AI use and risk
We find out how AI and agents are actually being used across your organization, what data they touch, and where that creates exposure.
02
Implement AI agents securely
We help you set up agents with read-only, least-privilege access, the right agreements in place, and a clear owner for each one, so the agents help without overreaching.
Want us to run the agents for you? See Managed AI agents.
03
Govern
We write the policies and controls that keep AI in bounds, mapped to ISO 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and train your team to follow them.
04
Monitor
We run ongoing automated, read-only checks against your controls. People review the results, so problems get caught and fixed instead of logged and forgotten.
We run it on ourselves first
We don't ask clients to do anything we haven't done ourselves. VanRein uses AI agents in our own compliance operations every day: triaging requests, reviewing contracts and BAAs, watching for new vulnerabilities, and running read-only control checks against HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001. The same guardrails apply to us as to you, and our experts review every finding the agents produce. What we've learned running it at our own firm is what we bring to yours.
The guardrails don't bend
Read-only by default
Agents get the least access they need to do the job, and read-only unless there's a clear reason otherwise.
No PHI without a BAA
Protected health information never goes to an AI tool or vendor without a business associate agreement in place.
A human signs off
No finding, report, or change is final until an expert has reviewed it and put their name on it.
Everything is documented
What each agent can access, who owns it, and what it's allowed to do is written down, so you can show an auditor, not just tell them.
Built for teams that can't afford to guess
Healthcare and regulated small and mid-size businesses
Teams that want the speed of AI without putting patient or client data at risk.
AI and data companies
Companies whose customers now ask about the model, the data it sees, and who controls it, and who need answers that hold up in a security review.
Secure AI adoption questions we hear a lot
Is our data, including PHI, safe?
That's the first thing we design for. Agents get read-only, least-privilege access, PHI doesn't go to any AI tool or vendor without a BAA, and every agent's access is documented. If a tool can't meet those terms, we tell you, and it doesn't get your data.
Do AI agents replace auditors?
No. Agents gather evidence, flag gaps, and handle the repetitive checks. An expert verifies every finding, makes the judgment calls, and stands behind the result. That's what makes the work defensible.
Which frameworks do you use?
We map AI governance to ISO 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and connect it to the programs you may already run with us: HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HITRUST. Where controls overlap, we build them once.
Does this replace SOC 2?
No. SOC 2 proves your overall security to customers. Secure AI adoption covers how you use and control AI inside that program. Many teams run both, and the work fits together.
What access do the agents need?
As little as possible. We start read-only and least-privilege, scope access to the specific systems a check needs, and document it. Anything beyond read-only needs a clear reason and your approval.
How do we start?
With a straight conversation about how your team uses AI today and where you want to go. If you'd like a quick first read, take the AI Exposure Score.
Related
VRC1
The platform that keeps the work organized behind the team.
See VRC1
Let's talk about where you stand
Whether you're just starting with AI or already running agents, the first step is a straight conversation about your organization and your risk.