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Application security data residency and sovereignty

Data-residency rules usually focus on where production data lives. They should also cover the security tools, because a SaaS scanner that ingests your source code is a data-export event most reviews miss.

01The gap most reviews miss

You can pin your production database to a region and still ship your entire codebase to a scanner's cloud on every commit. For sovereign, regulated or defence workloads, that is exactly the exposure residency rules exist to prevent - it is just hiding in the security toolchain.

02The architectural answer

The clean way to satisfy residency is to remove the export entirely. apPosture is self-hosted and air-gapped capable, with a local model, so your source, findings and evidence never leave your infrastructure. There is no region to choose and no sub-processor to vet for your code, because nothing about it is transmitted.

FAQ

Does a region setting solve residency for AppSec?

Only partially. If the tool still ingests your code into a vendor cloud, the code has left your boundary regardless of region. Self-hosted removes the transfer altogether.

What about the AI features?

The local LLM runs inside your infrastructure, so AI analysis does not create a data-export path either.

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