Data Security at Terno
Terno is built with a security first philosophy, designed specifically for enterprises operating at global scale and handling mission critical data. Below is a detailed overview of how Terno ensures data privacy, isolation, and deterministic enforcement of security controls without compromise.
How Terno Achieves State-of-the-Art Accuracy
Deployed Inside Your Private Cloud
Terno runs entirely within an organizations’ private cloud or on premise infrastructure. All data remains within your network boundary, governed by your IAM, firewall, and compliance policies. There is no data movement to external SaaS systems or third party servers.
No Data Shared with LLMs
Terno follows a strict separation between enterprise data and AI models. Only controlled metadata such as table structure and relationships may be shared with the LLM. Actual data values, records, and sensitive fields are never exposed.
Support for Private LLMs
Terno can be configured to use private or self hosted LLMs. This provides full control over model selection, inference behavior, logging, and compliance requirements.
Fine Grained Access Control
Access can be restricted at the table, column, and row levels. This enables precise enforcement of role based access, regional isolation, and business unit specific visibility consistently across all analytics workflows.
One Way Encrypted Yet Analyzable Fields
Sensitive fields can be stored using irreversible one way encryption. While the raw values remain unreadable, the data can still be safely used for aggregations, grouping, and analytics ensuring privacy without sacrificing insight.
Object Renaming & Logical Abstraction
Database objects can be logically renamed or abstracted before exposure to users or AI models. This protects internal schema design, proprietary logic, and sensitive business semantics.
Deterministic, Non AI Security Layer
All queries pass through a hardened, deterministic query transpiler that enforces security policies before execution. Security enforcement is rule based and auditable, not dependent on AI behavior ensuring zero leakage and zero bypass.
Architecture of Terno
"Terno’s architecture blends modular intelligence with secure, semantic access to enterprise data. It is designed for scalability, extensibility, and precision across diverse tools and databases"
Metastore
The Metastore holds business knowledge, provided by experts or learned automatically from your data, to generate accurate, context-aware SQL. Keeps the data catalog up to date and continuously improves query relevance.
SQLShield
A deterministic security layer that sanitizes queries, enforces RBAC, and prevents unsafe SQL execution before queries reach the database. Optimizes query generation while protecting against injection and misuse.
Semantic Layer on Databases
Terno adds a semantic layer on top of databases, enabling searches based on meaning rather than exact keywords. This allows queries like “blue jeans” to match related data such as “navy denims”.
Multi-database intelligence
Terno can analyze across multiple databases and data sources in a single query, relational databases, ERPs, and files. Works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, ERPs like Odoo, and files such as CSV, Excel, and PDFs.
Artifact Store
Intermediate outputs such as datasets, models, queries, charts, and code are stored as reusable artifacts. This accelerates analysis and allows teams to build on verified work.
Enterprise tooling augmentation
Terno integrates with internal tools and workflows such as APIs, schedulers, and notifications. Example: automatically send reports, trigger jobs, or call internal systems.
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"We integrated Terno with our ERP system about 6 months ago, the impact has been immediate. It's intuitive, fast and surprisingly powerful. What used to take days can now be done in minutes."
"We were concerned about data security, but Terno has proven to be both secure and incredibly user-friendly. It's transformed how we use our ERP data daily."
"I was skeptical at first, but Terno blew me away. It not only bridges the gap between business users and complex data, we've seen a noticeable drop in dependency on data engineers."
"It’s been a while since we started using Terno in our organization. It has significantly sped up our workflow, and everyone on my team now feels empowered with AI."
"As a data scientist, Terno has completely changed the way I work. I can query complex data effortlessly and make decisions faster than ever."
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