Security And Governance Overview
PFC evaluates action requests before execution, applies policy-based governance, and produces auditable decision artifacts for organizations operating in high-consequence environments.
Use this page as an overview for security, technology, and risk stakeholders reviewing how PFC governs automated actions.
PFC sits between an action request and the downstream system that would carry it out. It is designed to govern requests before execution, rather than only logging what happened afterward, so organizations can place a control layer in front of automated actions and AI-linked decisions. That is the practical response to AI execution risk at the execution boundary.
The hosted runtime evaluates requests deny-by-default, requires replay-protection headers on governed evaluate calls, and produces signed governance artifacts for allowed decisions. This helps teams review what was authorized, when it was authorized, and under which policy state.
API access is issued through controlled key creation flows, customer keys are revealed once at onboarding, and privileged admin operations are separately protected. Enterprise identity modes are available for organizations that need PFC to align with upstream identity systems, without claiming to replace a full IAM platform.
PFC supports approval-based policy promotion, role-aware approvals, configurable quorum or dual-control, staged or scheduled activation, and rollback. Advanced controls can require approval freshness or re-attestation before a policy moves into active use.
The hosted control plane records structured audit events, exposes security status visibility for operators, includes backend-aware replay and rate-limit controls, and now uses deploy route checks plus post-deploy smoke verification to catch routing regressions before or immediately after release.
PFC can issue governance artifacts and verification helpers for downstream services, but mandatory downstream enforcement depends on how customers integrate protected execution flows. Hosted enforcement and integration enforcement are related, but they are not identical, and this boundary should remain explicit in production design reviews.
PFC is designed for organizations that need policy, audit, identity, and operational controls around automated actions in high-consequence environments. It works alongside enterprise identity and review processes by adding a narrow governance decision layer before execution, plus evidence that security, compliance, and risk teams can review. Teams aligning security review with runtime control should connect this page to execution control and AI governance.
That review is grounded in AI execution risk, where the security consequence appears at the moment an action is allowed to commit.
Next Steps
Security posture matters most when it is matched to real operating constraints. PFC is built to help organizations govern automated decisions with clear approval, audit, and deployment boundaries.