Zilliz has announced a significant upgrade to its enterprise security and compliance features, aimed at helping even the most heavily regulated industries roll out AI solutions with confidence and speed. Zilliz is the company behind Milvus, the world’s most widely used open-source vector database.

The company says security and compliance remain the top hurdles preventing 70% of enterprises from moving AI beyond pilot stages. Zilliz’s new measures are designed to remove these barriers, allowing organisations to shift from trial to full production within weeks, while staying compliant with all relevant regulations.

“Security and compliance are not features we add at the end — they are part of our foundation,” said Charles Xie, CEO of Zilliz. “We’ve built a platform that allows enterprises to unlock the value of unstructured data with the peace of mind that their AI applications are protected by world-class security and certified compliance from the ground up.”

Zilliz has placed trust at the centre of its AI infrastructure, embedding security-by-design, cross-jurisdiction privacy protection, and large-scale resilience into its platform. This, the company says, enables organisations in regulated sectors to innovate without hesitation.

Its security framework brings together international certifications with robust enterprise controls suited to critical workloads, including:

• Certified Trust – SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certifications, with ongoing third-party checks for security, availability, and confidentiality.
• Global Privacy Compliance – Full GDPR compliance for EU/EEA markets, HIPAA readiness for US healthcare, and EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification with UK Extension and Swiss-U.S. DPF.
• Enterprise-Grade Safeguards – AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.2+ for data in transit, private networking, role-based access controls (RBAC), and comprehensive audit logging.
• Guaranteed Uptime – SLAs promising 99.95% availability with financial penalties if missed, alongside automated backup, recovery, and multi-region disaster recovery.
• Data Sovereignty – Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments keep sensitive data within the customer’s own security perimeter while maintaining managed vector database performance.

Building on its roots with Milvus, Zilliz is now pairing the database’s performance and scalability with advanced protections for industries with stringent compliance needs.

“The future of AI will be defined not only by what is possible, but by what is responsible,” Xie added. “Our customers can innovate at the speed of AI, knowing their infrastructure meets or exceeds the world’s most rigorous security and compliance benchmarks.”