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Institutional Security, Privacy, and Data Governance

1. Executive Summary

The Truthlocks B2G Procurement Pack is designed for government agencies and public institutions. It addresses the unique requirements of public sector data handling, including rigorous auditability, sovereign data control, and incident response readiness.

2. Institutional Architecture

Truthlocks provides Sovereign-Ready Infrastructure:
  • Regional Data Residency: Support for localized hosting within approved AWS regions.
  • Logical Isolation: Enhanced RLS policies and dedicated encryption keys per government tenant.
  • Auditability: Real-time, tamper-evident logs for every administrative and transactional action.

3. Privacy & Compliance Matrix

ObjectiveTruthlocks Control
Data RetentionConfigurable TTLs and automated erasure schedules.
Data MinimizationPrivate payloads are never indexed; only cryptographic hashes are persisted.
Access ControlFine-grained RBAC with mandatory multi-party authorization for high-stakes ops.
TransparencyPublicly verifiable signed checkpoints for platform integrity.

4. Incident Response & SLAs

We maintain a robust operational posture for public sector reliability:
  • Uptime SLA: 99.99% availability for core signing and verification services.
  • Recovery: Multi-AZ failover and encrypted point-in-time recovery for all system logs.
  • Security Disclosures: Dedicated PGP-signed security communications and a 24/7 Response Team.

5. Enterprise onboarding emails

When you create a government tenant, Truthlocks sends a dedicated onboarding invite email to the tenant administrator. This email is separate from the standard issuer welcome and is tailored for institutional stakeholders.

Triggers

The enterprise onboarding invite is sent automatically in two scenarios:
  1. Tenant creation — A platform admin creates a tenant with the GOVERNMENT type. The designated admin receives the invite immediately.
  2. Lead qualification — A sales lead is marked as “qualified” in the platform leads pipeline. The lead’s contact email receives the invite with a link to sign up.

What the recipient sees

The administrator receives an email titled “You’ve been invited to Truthlocks Enterprise” containing:
  • The organization name of the government agency or institution
  • A branded call-to-action button (Accept Invitation) linking directly to the onboarding wizard
  • A brief overview of the Truthlocks Enterprise platform

Onboarding flow

After clicking Accept Invitation, the recipient is guided through the console onboarding wizard:
  1. Organization profile — Configure the agency name, region, and compliance requirements.
  2. Team setup — Invite additional administrators, developers, and auditors.
  3. Issuer creation — Register the agency as an issuer. The issuer is activated immediately at the Basic trust level. Optionally, submit an issuer application to request a higher trust tier.
  4. Key generation — Create Ed25519 signing keys for attestation issuance.
  5. Test mint — Issue a test attestation in the sandbox environment to validate the integration.

Custom SMTP support

Government tenants that require emails to originate from their own mail infrastructure can configure a custom SMTP sender in Settings > Email. Once configured, all onboarding and notification emails for that tenant route through the custom SMTP server instead of the default AWS SES provider.
If you are onboarding multiple agencies at once, each tenant receives its own branded invite with the correct organization name and onboarding link.
For details on email infrastructure, bounce handling, and suppression lists, see the Email Delivery & SES Integration guide.

6. Deployment framework

  1. Pilot Phase: Sandboxed integration for feasibility and security assessment.
  2. Compliance Review: Detailed mapping of Truthlocks controls to local institutional standards.
  3. Production Rollout: Incremental migration of public service records to the high-integrity layer.

Technical Appendix: Data Lifecycle

Truthlocks treats data as a transient asset. Once an attestation is minted and the proof bundle is delivered to the citizen/consumer, the system transitions to a preservation-mode where only the non-repudiable metadata remains active for verification.
Truthlocks avoids the “forever-ledger” pitfalls of blockchain by allowing institutions to define clear end-of-life policies for their signing records while maintaining verification integrity.