Use case · CISO / Security / Compliance

The first AI workforce your CISO will say yes to.

Policy-checked. Evidence-recorded. Restore-protected. Sidian gives the CISO the same controls they have over employees, contractors, and vendors — applied to AI.

Persona
CISO, Head of IT, Head of Risk, Head of Compliance, "responsible AI" lead
Department pack
Regulated Finance or Healthcare
Plan
Business or Enterprise
Departments out of the box
8–11

The challenge

AI is being adopted under the radar in your company. The CISO has no visibility, no approvals, no audit trail, no way to roll back, no way to prove the AI followed policy. Regulators are asking questions.

The CISO is one AI incident away from a board conversation.

You need a system where the CISO can sign off because every AI action is policy-checked, evidence-recorded, approval-gated, restore-protected, and exportable to an auditor.

How Sidian helps

The 7 security guarantees

No raw prompts in the renderer. No raw memory in the model context. No destructive Git from the UI. No secrets in any DTO. No autonomous action in finance, tax, legal, HR, payroll, or money movement. No silent agent decisions. No provider lock-in.

The Restore Console

Every approved file mutation is preceded by a Git-backed checkpoint. Every restore requires a typed phrase, an approval, a clean working tree, a confirmed safety ref, and a valid target in history. The 6 hard gates are hard-coded.

The audit ledger

Every action is recorded in the action log. Every event is recorded in the event store. Every evidence event is bounded, redacted, and source-cited. Exportable to JSON. The auditor's source of truth.

Provider- and model-agnostic

The CISO can require a private LLM gateway for high-risk actions. Switch from OpenAI to Anthropic to a private model without rebuilding the workforce. Resume cursors are opaque.

Connector Diagnostics Center

9 safe checkers report credential presence, command availability, schema validity, transport reachability, and recommended fixes. Never sends a test email or test Slack message.

Restore Policy as Code

Operator-editable thresholds (cooldown, loop window, dry-run TTL, delegation TTL) per work-run, per department, per global. The 6 hard gates remain hard-coded.

A day in the life

  • 9:00 AMThe CISO opens the Security page in Sidian. The Connector Diagnostics Center shows 11 of 16 connectors are healthy; 2 are missing credentials; 1 is degraded; 1 is unavailable. The CISO clicks "send a fix to the team"; the Chief Agent drafts an email to the 3 affected team leads.
  • 10:00 AMThe CISO reviews the Restore Policy Editor. The CISO tightens the restore loop from 3 to 2 restores per 24 hours for the Engineering department. The CISO previews the impact. The CISO saves. The change is recorded in the action log + the evidence ledger + the event store. The 6 hard gates are unchanged.
  • 11:00 AMThe CISO reviews the audit log. 247 actions in the last 24 hours. 3 were high-risk. All 3 were approved by a human. The CISO exports the log to JSON.
  • 2:00 PMThe CISO runs a simulation: "What if we cut the engineering department's autonomy from Level 3 to Level 2?" The Chief Agent produces a scenario report. The CISO reviews the second-order effects. The CISO approves.
  • 5:00 PMThe CISO signs off on the daily security brief. The brief is sent to the CEO. The brief is the start of the CISO's evidence trail for the week.

The numbers

7Security guarantees
6Hard gates (never configurable)
0Destructive Git operations from the renderer

"We have 2,500 people across 14 countries. The CISO required private LLM, audit retention 5 years, and a 1h SLA. Sidian delivered. The Restore Console is the only path to a destructive Git operation. The evidence ledger is the auditor's source of truth."

— Composite CISO

Related department packs

Regulated Finance Healthcare Legal Services Enterprise

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