A UK-based AI SOC, with UK/EU data residency

For a UK organisation, where security data is processed is not a detail — it shows up in your UK GDPR obligations, your procurement questionnaires, and often your own customers' requirements. Many of the AI SOC tools on the market are US-based and process data in US regions by default, which can turn a quick evaluation into a data-transfer and due-diligence exercise.

OwlSOC is built to make that part boring. UK-based team, UK/EU data residency, and a data-handling posture designed to answer a procurement questionnaire honestly rather than around it.

OwlSOC processes your alert data in the UK or EU, encrypted in transit and at rest. It connects to your Microsoft and AWS tooling read-only by default, reading only the security signal needed to investigate an alert — the alert, the surrounding logs, and the identity, device and network context — and nothing outside that scope.

There are no agents to install and nothing sits in your traffic path. What OwlSOC can access is exactly what you grant when you onboard, and it is auditable from your side.

OwlSOC does not train any model on customer data — ours or a third party's — and that is a contractual commitment that extends to every sub-processor in our pipeline. Investigation happens against your data without learning from it. This is the question that most often trips up AI tooling in procurement, and the answer here is a plain no.

We are happy to walk your security or procurement team through the architecture, the sub-processor list, and the data-processing agreement before you sign anything.

Residency, read-only access, a no-training commitment, and a DPA cover most of what a UK data-protection review asks about a processor. If your organisation works to frameworks like Cyber Essentials, or falls under regimes such as NIS2 or DORA, OwlSOC's posture is designed to slot into that evidence rather than complicate it.

To be clear about what those frameworks are: they are your obligations and your context, not certifications OwlSOC is claiming on your behalf. We will support your evidence-gathering, and we are straight about our own certification status below.

Honesty matters more than a badge here. OwlSOC is not yet SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified, and we will not imply otherwise. What we can do today is share our current security posture, our sub-processor list, and our data-processing agreement, and answer your questionnaire directly.

On the Compliance tier, OwlSOC also produces exportable case reports and audit-log exports you can fold into your own SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR evidence — helping you meet your obligations, on the tools you already run.