Synovient Certify+™

A Digital Agency Capsule (DAC™) is a revolutionary technology Synovient  developed that enables data owners to encapsulate their digital assets in a secure, self-governing container. The DAC™ not only stores the data but embeds immutable terms, conditions, and access controls directly into the capsule. This ensures that the data remains protected, traceable, and compliant with the owner’s predefined rules, no matter where it travels or who interacts with it. Each DAC™ is cryptographically sealed, providing a tamper-proof enclosure that guarantees the integrity of the data and its associated policies.​

The DAC™ operates by enforcing its embedded governance mechanisms dynamically. When an authorized party attempts to access a DAC™, the system verifies their credentials and ensures that all usage complies with the embedded terms. This includes restrictions on who can view or modify the data, time-based access limits, and compliance with regulatory requirements. If any unauthorized access is attempted, the DAC™ remains inert, effectively rendering the data inaccessible. Additionally, data owners retain the ability to revoke access and monitor usage. This unique combination of security, flexibility, and control makes the DAC™ a game-changing solution for protecting and managing digital assets.​

A Secure Data Sphere™ (SDS™) is a critical component of Synovient Certify+™, designed to create an advanced layer of protection and control around data assets. An SDS™ is a dynamic, secure boundary continuously enforcing the data owner's rules, terms, and compliance requirements. Unlike traditional security measures, which are often tied to infrastructure, the SDS™ protects the data itself, ensuring it remains safeguarded across systems, networks, and jurisdictions. It monitors and governs how the data is accessed and used in real-time, enabling the owner to enforce compliance and react to potential risks proactively.​

Secure Data Spheres (SDS™) also incorporate the DAC Vault™, a sovereign storage environment where Digital Agency Capsules™ (DAC™) are securely housed. The DAC Vault™ ensures that all DAC™s are stored in an immutable, encrypted state, safeguarding them from unauthorized access or tampering. It also serves as the location for DAC™s used as reference models for proof of copyright, ownership, and content certification, providing a verifiable and immutable record of these attributes. The DAC Vault™ works seamlessly with SDS™ to manage and monitor the lifecycle of DAC™s, providing the data owner with tools to archive, retrieve, and organize their digital assets with precision and ease. This combination ensures that data assets are protected during use and storage, reinforcing end-to-end security while supporting vital certification and ownership validation functions. ​

In addition to its governance capabilities, SDS™ includes advanced visualization functions that give data owners unparalleled insights into their data assets. Owners can monitor key metrics such as access logs, usage patterns, compliance adherence, and attempted breaches through intuitive dashboards. These visualizations provide real-time and historical perspectives, enabling proactive decision-making and granular control over data. By combining the secure storage capabilities of the DAC Vault™ with the monitoring and visualization power of SDS™, Synovient Certify+™ delivers a comprehensive solution that enhances both data security and operational transparency.​

The SDS™ integrates seamlessly with the Digital Agency Capsule (DAC™) by enhancing its ability to enforce security and governance. While the DAC™ provides immutable terms, conditions, and access controls embedded directly into the data, the SDS™ extends this functionality by creating a secure environment for interactions with the DAC™. When accessing a data asset, the SDS™ ensures that all activities align with the DAC’s embedded policies. It also provides telemetry and traceability, allowing the data owner to track usage and identify unauthorized attempts. Together, the DAC™ and SDS™ create a comprehensive, layered approach to data protection, ensuring both sovereignty and security throughout the data lifecycle.​

Synovient Certify+™ sets itself apart from traditional data security and management tools by embedding security, governance, and compliance directly into the data itself, rather than relying solely on external infrastructure or perimeter-based protections. Its core technologies, the Digital Agency Capsule™ (DAC™) and Secure Data Sphere™ (SDS™), ensure that every data asset is self-governing and protected at the most granular level. Unlike conventional tools that depend on static policies applied to systems, storage or networks, Synovient Certify+™ allows data owners to define immutable terms, conditions, and permissions that travel with the data wherever it goes. This ensures continuous protection and control, even in decentralized environments or when data is shared with third parties.​

Another key differentiator is the dynamic, real-time capabilities of Synovient Certify+™. Data owners can revoke access, monitor usage, and enforce compliance instantly, giving them unparalleled sovereignty over their assets. Traditional tools often lack this level of adaptability, leaving data vulnerable once it leaves the protected environment. Additionally, Synovient Certify+™eliminates common pitfalls of traditional tools, such as excessive reliance on manual intervention, limited interoperability across systems, and poor scalability. Synovient Certify+™redefines what it means to secure and manage digital assets in an increasingly interconnected world by focusing on empowering the data owner and enabling decentralized data governance.​

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Synovient Certify+™ safeguards your data from unauthorized use by AI systems through its advanced Digital Agency Capsule™ (DAC™) and Secure Data Sphere™ (SDS™) technologies, which enforce strict governance and compliance rules directly on the data. By embedding immutable terms and conditions into the DAC™, data owners can explicitly define how their data may or may not be used, including prohibiting its use for AI training, analysis, or deployment without explicit permission. These rules are self-enforcing and travel with the data, ensuring that even if the data is shared or accessed by an AI system, unauthorized usage is automatically blocked or flagged.​

While Synovient Certify+™ provides robust initial access protection, it is important to note that it cannot entirely prevent an authorized third party from extracting the content or data from a DAC™ and offering it for AI use outside the boundaries of its embedded governance. Once an authorized user accesses the data, they may bypass the defined terms and conditions by exporting the content and using it in ways that violate the original owner's intentions, including offering AI training or analysis. This limitation arises because Synovient Certify+™ focuses on enforcing compliance and protecting data while it is governed within the DAC™ and SDS™ ecosystem, but it cannot control actions taken by authorized users after they have extracted the data outside this environment.​

To address this, data owners are encouraged to combine Synovient Certify+™capabilities with rigorous due diligence, legal contracts, and agreements that bind authorized parties to honor the terms of use. Synovient is also continually innovating to explore future features and mechanisms, such as signatures, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and enhanced tracing, to help data owners track and mitigate unauthorized use by eliminating extraction. However, at present, maintaining trust and enforcing accountability with authorized users is a shared responsibility between the technology and the data owner.​

A data asset owner using Synovient Certify+™ has precise and dynamic control over their data that traditional data owners cannot achieve. With the DAC™ (Digital Agency Capsule™), the owner can embed immutable terms, conditions, and permissions directly into the data asset itself, enabling granular management of who can access the data, under what circumstances, and for how long. This control includes revocable access, meaning the data owner can rescind permissions in real-time, even after the data has been shared. In contrast, traditional data owners often lose control once data is distributed, relying on external systems or agreements to govern its use, which are difficult to enforce.​

Additionally, Synovient Certify+™ provides the ability to enforce compliance dynamically through its Secure Data Sphere™ (SDS™) technology. This allows the data owner to monitor usage in real-time and trigger actions such as restricting access, issuing alerts, or initiating a "shred" signal to render the data permanently unusable. Traditional data owners typically cannot enforce these types of actions autonomously or without relying on third-party tools. The integration of embedded governance, real-time adaptability, and security Synovient Certify+™ empowers data owners to maintain sovereignty and enforce their intentions over their assets at every stage of the data lifecycle.​

Synovient Certify+™, with its Digital Agency Capsule (DAC™) and Secure Data Sphere (SDS™) capabilities, is fundamentally different from traditional DRM because it focuses on empowering data owners with complete sovereignty, control, and flexibility rather than imposing rigid restrictions on end users. Traditional DRM systems are designed primarily to protect content by restricting users' access or use of digital assets, often resulting in usability issues, inflexible rules, and a lack of transparency. In contrast, Synovient Certify+™ enables data owners to embed customized terms and conditions directly into the data or content assets, ensuring they can manage access and compliance dynamically without locking users into proprietary systems.​

Furthermore, DRM systems are typically centralized and managed by third-party providers, meaning the creator or owner of the content often relinquishes some degree of control. Synovient Certify+™ takes a decentralized approach, where the DAC™ acts as a sovereign, immutable container managed solely by the data owner. The embedded terms and conditions within the DAC™ are self-enforcing, and revocable access can be adjusted in real-time without requiring external intervention or modification of the data itself. SDS™ enhances this by creating a secure yet flexible boundary around the data, ensuring it remains protected and compliant regardless of how it is shared or used. This balance of security, flexibility, and ownership positions Synovient Certify+ as a next-generation data governance solution, not a restrictive DRM tool.​

While Synovient Certify+™ incorporates identity and access control principles, it fundamentally differs from traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems. IAM primarily focuses on managing user identities and their access to an organization's systems, applications, and networks. It often relies on centralized frameworks to authenticate users and enforce access policies. In contrast, Synovient Certify+™ operates at the data and content level, using its Digital Agency Capsule (DAC™) and Secure Data Sphere (SDS™ ) technologies to embed access rules, compliance requirements, and terms directly into the data itself. This creates a decentralized, self-enforcing mechanism that moves beyond the traditional perimeter-based approach of IAM systems.​

Another key distinction is sovereignty and control. Organizations typically administer IAM systems to govern access to their own systems. In contrast, Synovient Certify+™ empowers data owners to maintain complete control over their assets, independent of the systems or platforms where the data resides. With DAC™ and SDS™, access can be granted, revoked, or customized per asset without relying on third-party IAM policies. This approach ensures that data governance is portable, secure, and entirely under the data owner's control, even as the data moves across organizations, networks, or jurisdictions. Synovient Certify+™ redefines access management by embedding it into the data itself, rather than tying it to external systems.​

Synovient Certify+™ with its DAC™ and SDS™ technologies enhances the security, functionality, and control of NFTs by embedding advanced governance and compliance mechanisms directly into the data associated with the token. While NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are an effective way to establish ownership and provenance of digital assets on a blockchain, they lack granular control over how the underlying asset is accessed, shared, or used. By incorporating DAC™s, NFT creators and owners can attach immutable, self-enforcing terms and conditions to the associated digital content, ensuring that usage rights, royalties, or access permissions are transparently managed and enforceable without requiring additional intermediaries.​

Secure Data Spheres (SDS™) further enhance NFTs by providing a secure boundary around the underlying asset, ensuring that it is only accessible to authorized parties under specified conditions. This addresses common concerns with NFTs, such as unauthorized copying or distribution of the digital content they represent. With Synovient Certify+™, NFT owners can dynamically update access rights, enforce compliance, and even revoke access to the content while maintaining the integrity of the blockchain record. This added layer of security and flexibility transforms NFTs into more than static representations of ownership—it makes them tools for dynamic, secure, and sovereign management of digital assets.​

Synovient Certify+™ with its DAC™ and SDS™ technologies shifts the focus of security from traditional infrastructure-based approaches to a data-centric model that prioritizes sovereignty, flexibility, and control at the individual data asset level. Traditional infrastructure security paradigms rely on securing the environment—such as firewalls, access controls, and perimeter defenses—to protect data within a defined system. While effective in certain scenarios, these methods lose their efficacy when data moves outside the protected infrastructure or crosses organizational boundaries. Synovient Certify+™ addresses this limitation by embedding security, governance, and compliance mechanisms directly into the data itself through DAC™s and SDS™s, ensuring protection travels with the data wherever it goes.​

This approach is fundamentally different because it eliminates reliance on the security of the underlying infrastructure. DAC™s make data assets self-governing and self-enforcing by including immutable terms, conditions, and access controls, while SDS™ creates secure environments for handling and storing data. Unlike infrastructure-based models, Synovient Certify+™ provides granular, real-time control and dynamic compliance that adapts to changing requirements without depending on external systems or configurations. This enables organizations to maintain data sovereignty and enforce compliance across distributed systems, cloud environments, and external partnerships, making it a revolutionary approach to secure data management.​