Claude can run in secure and regulated environments. Compliance itself depends on the things around the model. The deployment path, your data handling policies, contractual terms, access controls, and the safeguards you put in place. No vendor can hand you compliance as a feature, and any team that says otherwise is selling something.
Claude runs through the Anthropic API, or through Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry. On those cloud paths, traffic stays inside an account you already hold under contract. Within that setup, we design and implement controls such as:
- tool permissions scoped to least privilege;
- model activity logged with appropriate redaction, retention controls, and access restrictions;
- regulated fields masked or excluded before they reach the prompt;
- a human approval step in front of any irreversible action.
Your compliance officer sets the requirements, whether that is HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, or an internal policy. We build to them and document what the system does with data. That work is priced as its own scope item, not folded into a vague line called security.