| Identity at every boundary | Scoped enrollment, short-lived single-use authority and unique Sensor or Agent identity. | Enrollment establishes trust; monitored activation still needs the applicable approval. |
| Authenticated internal transport | Encrypted authenticated telemetry and control, certificate trust and lifecycle controls. | Legacy device compatibility cannot downgrade Platform-owned transport. |
| Least-privilege resource access | Server-side roles, tenant/resource scope, action conditions and restricted API access. | Verify permission enforcement and cross-scope negative cases in the selected release. |
| Credentials without unnecessary exposure | Encrypted credential profiles with separate USE and REVEAL permissions. | Reusable secrets stay out of routine logs, audit output, telemetry and AI context. |
| Governed privileged actions | Command policy, step-up controls, approval, bounded targets and post-action evidence. | Model output and external approval cannot grant local execution authority. |
| Evidence integrity | Source, timestamps, quality, versioned provenance and verifiable audit integrity. | Tamper evidence requires a validated mechanism; the design alone is not assurance. |
| Privacy-conscious diagnostics | Bounded operational metadata and field-level Drop, Mask, Hash or Store policies. | Collection scope, retention and field handling must match the approved profile. |
| Bounded access to external systems | Connector destination, authentication, replay, schema and rate controls. | Confirm each connector and permission scope; external text is untrusted input. |
| AI data and tool boundaries | Minimized authorized context, provider/region policy and a deterministic tool firewall. | Untrusted logs, tickets and configurations cannot become privileged instructions. |
| Retention and governed offboarding | Controlled export, credential revocation, active deletion, archive expiry and legal holds. | Active deletion does not imply immediate erasure of retained backup copies. |
| Offline and optional AI operation | Deterministic monitoring without an external model and governed local-provider packaging. | Confirm the approved runtime, model artifact, deployment and resource profile. |
| Software integrity and recovery | Signed packages, component records, vulnerability review, upgrades, backup and restore. | Review release evidence; backup success, recovery and HA are different outcomes. |