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STING
Secure Trusted Intelligence and Networking Guardians.
STING is the trust fabric beneath HIVE. It authenticates people and devices, protects AI request paths, applies policy and privacy controls, signs distributed work, and records content-free audit evidence.
STING is not an application you buy, deploy, or log into on its own, and it is not the AI assistant. It is the security layer built into HIVE — the reason HIVE's privacy claims rest on architecture rather than on a policy document.
What STING Is Responsible For
Identity for people and devices
Authenticates who is asking and which enrolled device they are asking from, with revocable enrollment.
Encrypted connectivity
Protects transport between the desktop, the organization Hub, and any compute nodes.
Protected AI request paths
Ensures AI requests travel only through authorized gateways, never directly to a worker or model endpoint.
Policy enforcement
Applies organization policy at authoritative boundaries. Hiding a button in the interface is not authorization.
Privacy controls
Applies data minimization and sensitive-data handling before a request reaches a model.
Signed work and audit evidence
Signs distributed work and records content-free audit evidence — the minimum metadata needed to operate.
Why STING Exists
Most AI platforms ask you to send proprietary data to someone else's cloud and to trust a contract about what happens next. STING was built on a different principle:
Your Data. Your AI. Your Rules.
Data stays inside your environment
Your models stay under your control
Your security policy shapes the deployment
Design Commitments
Fail closed
Every loopback and system IPC session is authenticated and validated against versioned schemas. Ambiguity is treated as refusal.
Never log the sensitive things
Prompts, pasted text, source chunks, generated answers, embeddings, secrets, and raw personal data are never written to logs.
Secrets live in the OS keychain
Not in environment variables, not in config files, not in logs, and not in browser or renderer storage.
Process isolation over shortcuts
Message authentication supplements process isolation and least privilege. It never substitutes for them.
Consent for contributed compute
Contributing a machine to organization work requires both an enabling policy and explicit per-device consent, and can be paused instantly.
Signed releases and provenance
Signed binaries, signed updates, and reproducible release inputs are release requirements rather than aspirations.
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If you are evaluating private AI for a regulated environment and want to go deeper on the security architecture, we are happy to walk through it.