How your app is protected
You shouldn’t need to become a security person to put something online — that’s the part you’re paying us for. But “trust us” isn’t an answer, so here is what actually stands between your app and a bad day, in plain English.
The building your app lives in
Every app we launch runs in a data center in New York operated by one of the largest cloud companies in the world — the same kind of building the apps already on your phone live in. We don’t name them here, because names change and promises shouldn’t; email us and a person will tell you.
Independent auditors regularly inspect that facility — everything from who can badge through which door to how power, cooling and data are handled — and certify it against these standards:
- ISO 27001 The big one for security: an audited management system for how servers, data, and the people who touch them are kept safe.
- SOC 2 Type II An outside auditor watched the security, availability and confidentiality controls actually working — over months, not on one good day.
- SOC 1 Type II The same months-long audit, applied to the controls that protect financial information.
- PCI-DSS The payment-card industry’s standard for any place card data could pass through.
- ISO 22301 A written, rehearsed plan for the bad day — power cuts, storms, surprises — so things keep running anyway.
- ISO 9001 Quality management: there’s a documented right way to do everything, and someone checks it’s followed.
- ISO 14001 Environmental management — the facility measures and minds its footprint.
- ISO 45001 Health and safety for the people who work inside it.
- ISO 50001 Energy management — power is used carefully, and measured.
These certifications belong to the data-center operator, and that’s the point: the people whose entire business is running buildings full of servers are independently audited for it, so nobody has to take anyone’s word.
How we run your server
A safe building doesn’t make your app safe — that part is ours. All of this is true of every server we hand you:
- Keys, not passwords You can’t sign in to your server with a password, because there isn’t one to guess. Entry is by cryptographic key — nothing to phish, nothing to brute-force. Our platform verifies this on every server instead of assuming it.
- One customer per server Your app runs on a server of its own, under an account of its own. Nobody else’s code, nobody else’s traffic, nobody else’s problems.
- A firewall that defaults to no Every server starts life refusing all incoming traffic except the kind your app is actually there to serve.
- The background noise, turned away The internet’s constant probing — vulnerability scanners, break-in bots, the greatest hits of known attacks — is rejected at the front door, before any of it reaches your code.
- Security fixes that install themselves The server’s operating system takes its security updates automatically, every day. Nothing waits for a human to remember.
- Copies encrypted before they travel The daily copy of everything is encrypted on your server (AES-256) before it leaves, and stored with a separate company in a separate place. The credentials that write it can see your backups and nobody else’s.
- A scanner that never sleeps Every server carries a malware scanner with tens of thousands of known-attack signatures, refreshed daily. Anything it flags is reviewed by a human — not auto-deleted, not ignored.
- Secrets treated like secrets Credentials our platform holds are stored encrypted. One-time passwords are shown once and never kept. Nothing sensitive gets typed where a log could remember it.
And the everyday layer
Everything promised on the launch page applies here too — the short version:
- Your code is scanned, first looking for any blatant mistakes AI-built apps make most: passwords sitting in the source, an admin screen anyone can open, a form that trusts whatever it’s handed.
- Your app runs on a server of its own. Nobody else’s code sits next to yours. (Check the competition, this is important and most don't do it.)
- Your own web address, with the padlock (SSL is included) — set up, and configured, without you thinking about it.
- A complete copy of everything, every day, kept somewhere other than the server itself.
- Something watching it around the clock. If your app stops answering, we hear about it automatically — usually before you would.
- A private practice copy of your app, so a change can be tried there instead of on the real thing.
- The keys your app needs — the AI one, the payment one — collected through a secure one-time link, never pasted into an email or a chat.
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Lastly, as part of your project's setup, we will send you a one-time assessment covering any recommendations we found, including:
- Code Security
- Data Handling
- Performance
- Scalability
- And any other relevant areas we identify needing attention, during review...
One more thing, about money: your card details never touch our servers. Payment is handled by Stripe — the same company that processes cards for millions of businesses — and we never see the number.
Questions this page didn’t answer? Email hello@lasthost.io — a person reads it.