Why Confidential?
According to KPMG, 63% of enterprises say that confidentiality and data privacy are their top risk to AI adoption (1). In regulated sectors, this figure increases to 76%. Yet, when it comes to solutions which address these concerns, the market has yet to answer. This leaves a critical mass of companies unserved and unable to adopt AI in their workflows. They need Confidential AI.Why Vector?
Vector Search is at the heart of the most popular AI applications - RAG, RecSys, Semantic Search, IR, etc. - and the market is overcrowded with Vector DBs. All of these share a key commonality: they need to store their indexed contents (vector embeddings) in plaintext to enable Approximate Nearest-Neighbor (ANN) search. This creates a significant attack vector for that data, making confidentiality a near-impossibility. To solve this, we need a brand new approach to Vector Search - Confidential Vector Search. Cyborg Vector Search is the first solution to implement this. By leveraging cryptographic hashing and symmetric encryption, Cyborg Vector Search enables ANN search over encrypted space. This means that vector embeddings are not decrypted during search, and remain encrypted throughout their lifecycle. This greatly reduces the attack surface while guaranteeing the confidentiality of inference data.How It Works
Cyborg Vector Search is built on a novel architecture that keeps confidential inference data secure through a zero-trust design. It leverages cryptographic hashing and forward-privacy to maintain vector embeddings end-to-end encrypted throughout their lifecycle, including at search time.
Backing Stores
Cyborg Vector Search supports a variety of backing stores, including:- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Memory (for testing and development)
- AWS RDS
- AWS ElastiCache
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure Cache for Redis
- Google Cloud SQL
- Google Cloud Memorystore