AI security: securing your AI use: a clear, fact-based explanation for South African organisations — with osFoundry as an example and dgm as an independent partner.

dgm is an independent integration partner for osFoundry — it is not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has not yet completed an integration project for any client.

AI security protects your use from data leakage, misuse and attacks. Here are the essentials.

Security principles

  • Do not enter sensitive data into public models.
  • Access control and key encryption.
  • Monitoring and logging of use.
  • Prefer self-hosting or local mode for sensitive data.

What this means for your business

osFoundry pins your data region to the US, the EU or Japan, supports local-first inference on your own device, and lets you self-host it in your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account (BYO Cloud). osFoundry has an EU managed region but no managed region inside South Africa. The honest difference from many markets is that South Africa does have in-country hyperscaler regions — AWS Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1, Microsoft Azure South Africa North in Johannesburg, Google Cloud africa-south1 in Johannesburg and Oracle Cloud Johannesburg — so keeping data on South African soil is achievable by self-hosting osFoundry in one of those regions or in a local data centre, or by running it local-first. Note that the US CLOUD Act can compel a US-owned provider to produce data it controls regardless of where that data physically sits, which is why some organisations prefer self-hosting or local-first for their most sensitive workloads.

You can explore the osFoundry platform to learn more.

Where dgm comes in

dgm is an independent integration partner that helps organisations in South Africa adopt the osFoundry platform — from identifying the first practical use case, to setting it up, to connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm operates separately from osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has not yet completed an integration project for any client, so everything above is a proposed service rather than a delivered outcome. If you would like to weigh up a practical first step, dgm would be glad to think it through with you. Arrange an introductory call with dgm.