When you deploy an AI model to a standard cloud VM or container, your model weights, proprietary logic, and live inference data are fully exposed to the host operating system, hypervisor, and cloud provider staff. This creates critical risks:
- Intellectual Property Theft: Competitors or malicious insiders can extract your proprietary model.
- Data Breach Liability: Sensitive inputs (PII, financial data, biometrics) processed during inference are vulnerable.
- Regulatory Non-Compliance: Violates data-in-use protection requirements of GDPR, HIPAA, and the EU AI Act.




