Enterprise Frontier Safeguards
Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS) is an opt-in enterprise solution that lets customers retain activity logs in cloud infrastructure they control while Anthropic runs automated misuse detection on a rolling window of traffic. EFS provides zero data retention posture for model providers, customer-managed encryption and storage, and automated flags delivered directly to the customer with no Anthropic human review.
What it does
Enable enterprises to use Anthropic’s most capable models for regulated or sensitive workloads while keeping logs, keys, and review under the customer’s control for security, compliance, and incident detection.
- Availability
- rolling out to customers in phases, starting later this fall
- Pricing model
- Anthropic does not charge for Enterprise Frontier Safeguards
- Deployment
- activity data can be stored in customers' cloud accounts (AWS/GCP/Azure) under customer control
- Privacy
- zero data retention posture for Anthropic; customer-managed encryption keys and storage options
- Licence
- Not established
Capability
Modality
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Evidence
6 claims- EFS combines zero data retention (ZDR) with automated safety monitoring to detect misuse while preserving customer privacy. [1]
Today we’re announcing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS), a solution that combines the privacy of zero data retention (ZDR) with state-of-the-art safeguards for detecting misuse.
Anthropic. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - EFS will roll out to customers in phases, with the goal of broad availability later this fall. [1]
Enterprise Frontier Safeguards will roll out to customers in phases, with the goal of making it broadly available later this fall.
Anthropic. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Activity data used for monitoring can be stored in the customer’s own cloud account (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage). [1]
Activity data used for monitoring can be stored in the customer’s own cloud account (such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage).
Anthropic. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Customers can keep logs in infrastructure they control under their own encryption keys and access policies (customer-managed encryption keys). [1]
Customers want the ability to have their data live in infrastructure they control, under their own encryption keys, access policies, and audit logging.
Anthropic. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - EFS is supported across Anthropic offerings and cloud partners, including Claude Code, Claude Enterprise, the Claude Platform, Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google’s Agent Platform, and Microsoft Foundry. [1]
EFS will be supported on Claude Code, Claude Enterprise, the Claude Platform, Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google’s Agent Platform, and Microsoft Foundry.
Anthropic. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Automated safety flags are routed directly to the customer and Anthropic employees do not perform human review of retained customer data. [1]
Those flags go directly to the customer and their people take it from there – no human review by Anthropic employees is required.
Anthropic. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights.
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