Highly regulated organizations facing strict data residency requirements now have a new path to secure sensitive information within their own environments. Concentric AI has expanded its Semantic Intelligence data security platform with a Private Scan Manager for Microsoft Azure, enabling government agencies, healthcare providers, and financial institutions to leverage advanced AI for data classification and GenAI security without their data ever leaving their private cloud.
Concentric AI launches Private Scan Manager for Azure, allowing its AI data security platform to be deployed in a customer's private Azure cloud.
The solution is designed for highly regulated industries (government, healthcare, finance) that must process sensitive data on-premises for compliance.
It enables organizations to discover, categorize, and protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), PHI, and financial data with AI while meeting strict residency mandates.
The platform provides comprehensive GenAI data security, monitoring data movement into and out of applications like ChatGPT to prevent leaks.
It uses patented, context-aware AI (not just rules or keywords) to accurately identify sensitive structured and unstructured data, including intellectual property.
This follows a similar offering for AWS, giving customers deployment choice as other vendors discontinue on-prem support.
For organizations in sectors like government, healthcare, and finance, regulatory frameworks often mandate that sensitive data—such as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), Protected Health Information (PHI), or proprietary financial records—must be processed and stored within controlled, on-premises environments. This requirement has traditionally limited their ability to adopt powerful, cloud-native SaaS security solutions. Concentric AI's new deployment model directly addresses this gap.
The Private Scan Manager for Azure ensures all raw data scanning and AI-powered categorization occurs within the organization's own private Microsoft Azure cloud instance. This allows entities using platforms like Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud (GCC) High to maintain compliance while benefiting from advanced data security governance. “At a time when legacy players are discontinuing support for on-prem deployments, this capability from Concentric AI is well-timed to meet the needs of a large portion of the market,” said Arthur Hedge, Co-founder and President of Castle Ventures Corporation.
Concentric AI's Semantic Intelligence platform uses a fundamentally different approach to data security. Instead of relying on predefined rules, keywords, or data samples, its patented AI understands the context of data. This allows it to accurately identify not only regulated data types (PII, PCI, PHI) but also business-critical unstructured data like intellectual property, contracts, and source code that other tools miss.
A critical feature in today's landscape is its integrated protection for Generative AI applications. The platform provides category-aware Data Loss Prevention (DLP) that monitors and controls what sensitive information employees might inadvertently submit to public or private GenAI tools, preventing costly data leaks. This, combined with continuous risk monitoring for misclassified data, excessive permissions, and anomalous user behavior, creates a comprehensive security posture for data at rest, in motion, and in use.
The Private Scan Manager deployment offers significant operational advantages. Organizations avoid the need for massive on-premises computing resources to run the AI software and eliminate the operational burden of managing, maintaining, and upgrading it themselves. The solution brings the operational benefits of a SaaS model—ease of use and continuous updates—to a compliant, on-premises framework.
“While other vendors are stepping away from on-prem deployments, Concentric AI remains focused on giving our customers choices,” said Dhruv Jhain, VP of Product at Concentric AI. This strategic focus on flexibility, following a similar offering for AWS, positions Concentric AI to serve a crucial segment of the market that must balance cutting-edge AI security with uncompromising regulatory compliance.
About Concentric AI
Concentric AI is intelligent data security made easy. Its Semantic Intelligence™ platform uses context-aware AI to discover sensitive data, monitor risks, automate remediation, simplify compliance, and accelerate investigations. It delivers smart, targeted protection by understanding how data is used, shared, and exposed. Concentric AI also offers managed services to keep security programs lean, scalable, and effective. This end-to-end platform protects data at rest, data in motion, and all the GenAI tools users interact with—so organizations can stay compliant, reduce exposure, and safeguard critical information wherever it lives and however it travels. Concentric AI is venture-backed by leading Silicon Valley VCs and is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.
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