## The SaaS Compromise The vast majority of Threat Intelligence platforms are delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). You log into a web portal hosted on the vendor's cloud, type your queries, and view the results. While convenient, this model introduces a massive, often overlooked Operational Security (OPSEC) vulnerability. ## Your Queries Are Intelligence When your Incident Response team is investigating a potential breach, the queries they run are highly sensitive. If they search for a specific, unpublished internal server name, a unique employee email, or a proprietary file hash, they are signaling exactly what the organization is worried about. In a SaaS model, every query, every saved search, and every alert threshold is stored in the vendor's database. If the vendor is compromised—or if a rogue employee accesses the logs—adversaries can see exactly what your security team knows, what they don't know, and when they are actively investigating an incident. ## The Self-Hosted Advantage Aarvi was built on a different philosophy: true data sovereignty. By deploying Aarvi as a self-hosted appliance within your own infrastructure (on-premises or in your private VPC), the intelligence engine runs locally. - **Local Execution:** Your queries never leave your network. You query the local Aarvi database, which is constantly synchronized with our threat feeds via secure, one-way encrypted updates. - **Zero Telemetry:** Aarvi does not phone home with usage metrics, search logs, or alert data. - **Air-Gapped Capability:** For highly classified environments, Aarvi can operate in completely air-gapped networks, receiving manual data updates. ## Trusting Your Infrastructure Threat intelligence is the most sensitive data a security team handles. It dictates defensive posture and reveals active incident response efforts. By keeping the platform self-hosted, you ensure that your intelligence remains your intelligence.
