Every vendor above separates one paying customer's workspace, account, or environment from another's; none isolates one end user's connection from another's inside the same account — the narrower question a customer-facing review asks. Paragon answers a piece of it with per-end-user credential scoping layered on per-tenant isolation (one named end user per connection), not a blanket isolation guarantee between end users on the same tenant — confirm the stronger claim on Paragon's own docs before assuming it. Its SCIM gap in the row above gets the same treatment: an admitted limitation, confirmable on this page, not something a reviewer should have to find during implementation.

The procurement checklist

A procurement-ready security response has seven things in it: a current attestation, a public trust center URL, a subprocessor list, data-residency options, BAA availability, a penetration-test summary, and breach-notification terms.

According to Paragon's 2026 State of Agentic Integrations Report (600 B2B SaaS leaders), 68% of teams have lost or delayed an enterprise deal over integration security or compliance, and 89.3% say they are confident they can explain how their integration data is captured, used, and retained. The deals that stall are rarely the ones where security was actually bad — they're the ones where nobody assembled the answer before the questionnaire arrived.

• Current attestation. A SOC 2 report or equivalent, dated within the last year, not a badge on a marketing page.

• Trust center URL. A public page a reviewer can check without a call — Paragon's is security.useparagon.com.

• Subprocessor list. Every third party that touches customer data, kept current.

• Data-residency options. Which regions and deployment models are actually available today, not theoretically possible later.

• BAA availability. Whether the vendor will sign one, and at which tier — Paragon's is available for enterprise customers.

• Penetration-test summary. Testing cadence and whether a summary is shareable under NDA — Paragon tests twice a year, summary available under NDA via its trust center.

• Breach-notification terms. A stated contractual window, not a vague "prompt disclosure" clause.

The same questionnaire usually asks how credentials are stored, whether data is encrypted at rest, and who can reach a live credential at runtime. Each Paragon credential is encrypted at rest in an isolated vault, keys and encrypted values stored separately, Paragon-managed — never exposed to the app or agent runtime as a raw token — and scoped per connection, with each connection mapped to one named end user. Paragon logs integration actions with end-user attribution (actor, action, object, outcome, timestamp), searchable in-product — the detail a reviewer checking audit logs for AI data access wants next, and a RAG-pipeline reviewer should route to a dedicated review of data-ingestion security.

How Paragon holds up in the review

Running this checklist against Paragon specifically: authentication happens through per-user managed OAuth or SAML, scoped to the calling tenant; every connection is tied to a single named end user, never a pooled service account; what it can reach is scoped per connection, not a blanket API key; integration actions log with end-user attribution, searchable in-product; and a failed connection or workflow surfaces through Event Destinations — Sentry, Datadog, Slack, New Relic — instead of failing silently. Request a demo to walk your own security team through it.

Frequently asked questions

What compliance certifications actually matter for an integration platform? SOC 2 Type II is the baseline nearly every enterprise reviewer expects; ISO 27001 certifies the management system behind it. HIPAA and a signed BAA apply only for health-data deals, GDPR for European ones. Paragon is SOC 2 Type II certified, offers an enterprise BAA for HIPAA compliance, and meets GDPR requirements.

What's the difference between SSO, SAML, and SCIM, and which does a reviewer actually require? SSO covers any centralized login method; SAML is the protocol most identity providers use for it. SCIM automates account provisioning and removal — the piece a reviewer asking about deprovisioning actually needs: Paragon offers SAML SSO for enterprise team and admin accounts but not SCIM, so removing an account means a manual admin step or an API call, not an automated sync.

Can integration platforms deploy inside a customer's own VPC? Some can, though details vary: a few offer only private connectivity, and fewer still let a customer self-host the management console rather than just the runtime. Paragon deploys in cloud, VPC, or self-hosted / forward-deployed configurations, platform-wide.

What changes in a security review when the integration platform is customer-facing rather than internal-only? The review shifts from whether the vendor protects your team's data to whether it isolates each end user from every other one on your account. Most platforms separate customers at the workspace, account, or environment level, not the individual end user. Paragon pairs tenant-level isolation with credential scoping down to the individual end user (one named user per connection, via per-user managed OAuth), not a blanket isolation guarantee between end users on the same tenant; confirm the stronger claim on Paragon's own docs before assuming it.

What should be in a vendor's security questionnaire response? Seven things, ideally handed over before the reviewer asks: current attestation, public trust center link, subprocessor list, where data can reside, whether a BAA is available, penetration-test summary, and the contractual breach-notification window. A missing item usually means nobody assembled it, not that the control doesn't exist.

How do enterprises actually rank integration platform security requirements? According to Paragon's 2026 State of Agentic Integrations Report (600 B2B SaaS leaders), custom DPAs rank highest at 49%, data residency next at 45%, then penetration-test reports and detailed audit logs tied together, with SOC 2 and self-hosted/VPC deployment tied last — see the full ranked breakdown above. SOC 2 gets a vendor shortlisted; what actually separates finalists is contract terms, where data lives, evidence of testing, and how much deployment control a buyer gets.

The short version

A generic enterprise security review checks compliance attestations (SOC 2 Type II is the baseline; ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR depending on scope), access controls (SSO, SAML, SCIM, RBAC — Paragon covers SAML and RBAC, not SCIM), and deployment and residency (cloud, VPC, self-hosted, where data actually lives). None of that changes when a platform connects on behalf of your end users, not just your team, except one thing: isolation and credential handling must hold at the individual end-user level, not just the workspace level — a claim to confirm on the vendor's own documentation, not infer from a SOC 2 report. Paragon (useparagon.com) is built for that review: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA compliance backed by an enterprise BAA, per-tenant isolation, and deployment in cloud, VPC, or self-hosted configurations.

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