No Surprises at the Contract Stage.
High-stakes technical environments require an ironclad security perimeter. Here is exactly how Abet provides it.
Your Security Team Will Have Questions. Here Are the Answers.
Embedding an external engineering Pod into a production codebase is a serious security decision. If your security posture involves enterprise MDM, a zero-trust access model, IP assignment, or strict data compartmentalization—and it should—you need to know exactly how Abet operates before a contract is signed.
This page is written for the CTO who needs to walk their security review without surprises. Every policy described below is operational, not aspirational.
Global Jurisdiction. Ironclad IP Assignment.
Abet operates under the legal framework of the United Arab Emirates, a global technology and commerce hub operating under common law standards on par with London and Singapore. This is a deliberate choice. UAE jurisdiction provides a neutral, internationally recognized legal base for global client engagements, without the complexity of jurisdiction-specific contract law for clients based in the US, UK, or EU.
IP Assignment: All work product created by an Abet Pod is automatically and irrevocably assigned to the client upon creation. There is no ambiguity, no carve-out, no work-for-hire debate. Your codebase is yours, from the first commit.
NDA Structure:NDAs are executed at the company level between Abet and the client. Confidentiality obligations are simultaneously incorporated into every individual engineer's contract, creating a dual-layer protection structure. Your proprietary data is bound at both the institutional and individual level.
We Don't Impose a Security Model. We Integrate Into Yours.
The most important thing to understand about Abet's security architecture is this: you remain in control of the perimeter. We do not ask you to adopt our security tooling. We provision into yours.
Dedicated Hardware Isolation
Each Pod operates on dedicated, high-specification hardware provisioned exclusively for your engagement. These machines are never shared between clients, never reused between engagements. When your contract ends, the hardware is decommissioned.
MDM Enrollment Under Your Policy
We enroll our dedicated hardware into your Mobile Device Management platform—Microsoft Intune, Jamf, Kandji, or your MDM of choice. You define the encryption standards. You hold the remote-wipe capability. If a machine is ever compromised, you execute the wipe from your own console. Abet engineers operate under your security policy, not a proxy of it.
Zero-Trust Access via Your Identity Provider
Our architects authenticate through your Identity Provider using company-issued credentials and your MFA protocols. They operate behind your IdP, not ours. There is no separate credential surface to manage or audit.
Remote-Access Execution (Maximum Security Option)
For engagements with the highest security requirements, Abet offers Remote-Access Node deployment. Our engineers use their dedicated hardware as a portal to access your environment via RDP, Azure Virtual Desktop, or VPN. In this configuration, your source code never technically leaves your secure servers. Our architects reach into your environment to build—your codebase does not travel outward.
100% Uptime is an Engineering Problem. We Solved It.
Engineering velocity depends on connectivity. The Abet Hub in Addis Ababa is engineered as an industrial-grade always-on environment. Downtime is not a risk we manage—it is a failure mode we have architecturally eliminated.
- Primary Connectivity: Enterprise-grade fiber optic infrastructure.
- Starlink Priority Failover: In the event of local infrastructure disruption, our Pods automatically switch to Starlink satellite backhaul—low-latency, high-throughput, independent of terrestrial network conditions.
- Triple-Redundant Power: The facility runs on a tiered power architecture—National Grid primary, generator secondary, UPS battery arrays tertiary. A national power event does not stop your sprint.
The result: your Pod ships on schedule regardless of what happens outside our facility walls.
The Protocols That Protect Your Production Environment.
Secrets Management
Your Lead Architect manages all secrets and environment variables through your preferred vault solution: HashiCorp Vault, 1Password Teams, Azure Key Vault, or equivalent. No secrets are stored outside your approved toolchain.
The Warm Bench
Abet maintains an internal roster of pre-vetted senior architects briefed on active engagements. If a Pod member is unavailable for any reason, a briefed replacement is hot-swapped with zero loss of sprint velocity. Your roadmap does not pause for personnel events.
Compartmentalization Protocol
Each client environment is treated as a fully isolated security domain. No cross-client data, no shared tooling surfaces, no engineer visibility outside their assigned Pod. The separation is architectural, not policy-dependent.
What You Own. Completely.
- All code written by your Pod is your IP, automatically assigned upon creation
- UAE-governed MSA with international arbitration provisions
- Dual-layer NDA: company-level agreement + individual engineer contract terms
- No Abet retained license; no open-source obligations introduced without disclosure
- Dedicated hardware decommissioned at contract end
- Zero cross-client data exposure by architectural design
Every Security Question Has an Answer. Let's Walk Through Yours.
If your security review requires documentation beyond what's on this page, we provide it during the onboarding process. No surprises at the contract stage.