IronCore Labs gives engineering teams the advanced encryption tools to build generative AI, vector search, and multi-tenant SaaS on top of protected sensitive data. Keys stay wherever your compliance story requires, your data stays encrypted even in use, and your roadmap stays on schedule.
Cloaked AI is the first commercial vector encryption product for sensitive data used in AI workflows.
Your embeddings stay useful for nearest-neighbor search, clustering, and classification. They just stop being a recoverable copy of your source data.
Here is the dirty secret of RAG and vector search: your embeddings are not anonymized. They can be inverted back to near-perfect approximations of the original text, faces, and images they came from. Every vector database in your architecture is, effectively, another copy of your (or your customers') private data with higher risk of loss.
Cloaked AI fixes that at the application layer. You call encrypt before the vector leaves your app, you call encrypt on the query before you search, and the vector database does its job without ever seeing plaintext. Nearest-neighbor search, hybrid queries, and metadata filters all still work. Risk of data loss goes to zero. And the SDK is open source on GitHub (AGPLv3, but commercial licenses are affordable).
Cloaked AI is database-agnostic and already works with Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Chroma, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, pgvector, Milvus, LanceDB, Redis, and more. If you want to train a predictive model on encrypted embeddings, the resulting model inherits the same protection.
No key, no inference.
SaaS Shield is the developer-safe encryption management platform with performant, full lifecycle key handling, audit trails, and multi-tenant functionality. Cloaked AI, Cloaked Search, our SDKs, and the S3 proxy plug into the platform on a mix-and-match basis to meet your current and future needs. One platform, one integration, every data store.
Most engineering teams don't have cryptographic expertise. They need multi-tenant full lifecycle key management, per-customer BYOK/HYOK, auditable data access events, and a way to swap algorithms later without rewriting the app. SaaS Shield delivers those while keeping the crypto decisions off your plate. No sensitive data flows through IronCore; it all happens in your environment.
Sell more software to large and international companies by protecting your customers' data even from insiders. Key orchestration, multi-tenant encryption, streaming audit trails, and BYOK/HYOK across AWS, GCP, Azure, and any KMS you or your customers bring.
Protect vulnerable AI data that's otherwise ignored, but carries copies of all of your most sensitive data. Encrypt vector embeddings and keep them searchable. The first commercial vector encryption.
Keep sensitive data protected even in use and keep it findable with encrypted search. Query encrypted keyword fields in Elasticsearch or OpenSearch. The search service never sees your plaintext.
Building end-to-end encrypted apps? Our Data Control Platform uses patented recrypt technology for cryptographic access control, zero-trust sharing, and true E2EE.
Learn about DCP →Application-layer encryption is the future of data protection and the best way to keep our customers safe. IronCore Labs offers a great solution, with a mix of advanced data protection capabilities, ease of use for developers, and control for customers.
Two capabilities your largest prospects will ask about: holding their own keys and avoiding being locked into yesterday's algorithms.
Bring Your Own Key, or Hold Your Own Key, per tenant, per region, per data segment. BYOK means the customer generates and supplies their encryption key. HYOK goes further: the customer holds their key in their own KMS and never hands it over at all. Either way, they gain real control over their data, which is better protected even from your employees, and you get a premium security tier worth charging for.
Every data segment can have its own key in its own KMS, and the KMS does not have to be yours. Your customer can keep keys in their Thales HSM on-prem while their data replicates globally across AWS and GCP. Revoke a key, and that customer's data becomes unreadable everywhere, immediately. Performance and reliability is preserved while security and control are given to your customers. That's how to get the largest enterprise deals across the finish line.
Crypto-agility is the ability to change algorithms, key sizes, KMSes, and cloud providers by configuration, not code. Gartner's stance is that by 2029, advances in quantum computing will make conventional asymmetric cryptography unsafe. Waiting until then to start migrating is not a plan, but standards are still evolving.
IronCore's platform lets you or each of your customers pick what algorithm suits their needs today, and change as often as they like, whenever they like, to meet evolving best practices. And with IronCore, even re-keying of old data, should it be necessary, is efficient.
Pick the path that matches how you work.
IronCore has been building application-layer encryption for more than a decade. Our SDKs are open source on GitHub under AGPL, with inexpensive commercial licensing for proprietary software. Our source is audited and auditable, our algorithms are documented, we're SOC2 Type 2 certified, and we run an active bug bounty program. We don't just offer advanced security, we live and breathe it.
SDKs in Rust, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Node, and PHP. Start with the docs or go straight to GitHub.
Evaluating the threat model for AI, RAG pipelines, and vector databases? Start with our Securing Gen-AI guide.
Building the business case for BYOK, HYOK, or a premium security tier? Plain language, safe to forward.
