Your bank or insurer cannot run testing on public SaaS without failing the security review. Element34 SBOX gives you a single-tenant private grid: data residency you can verify, audit trail to your SIEM, complete infrastructure control. Designed for DORA, Solvency II, NAIC, and GDPR by architecture.
DORA is in force. GDPR has been the floor for years. Public SaaS test grids fail the bank security review for four reasons. Here are the architectural answers.
DORA brings test automation vendors handling production-shaped bank data into scope of the bank's ICT third-party risk assessment. Public-SaaS test grids, where data crosses the bank perimeter into a vendor's multi-tenant cloud, fail the review by design.
Element34 SBOX is DORA-aligned by architecture across three deployment models. Test data, session recordings, and AI prompts stay inside the customer perimeter. Customer-managed keys. Architecture documentation supports the ICT third-party risk assessment without retrofitted attestations.
GDPR test automation has been the floor for years. PSD2 testing and Solvency II shape every payment and insurance workflow. Public-SaaS regions move, vendor-side residency claims are hard to verify on every audit, and PII in session recordings adds further exposure.
In Managed Private Cloud, Element34 operates inside the customer-mandated region. EU-Central, EU-West, UK, Switzerland, US, and other regions on request. In VPC, the customer cloud team picks the region. In Private Cloud, the customer datacenter defines the boundary. Audit logs exportable to the customer SIEM.
Internal audit and model risk teams now review every AI capability that touches bank data. AI prompts and responses traversing a vendor's shared inference endpoint create a blocker that procurement cannot clear without a special exception.
Studio, Auto Heal, Automated RCA, and Pulse Report all call the bank's own AI provider. Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex, OpenAI direct, Anthropic direct, or self-hosted. Prompts and responses never traverse Element34 infrastructure. Your AI governance review covers SBOX AI by default.
Public-SaaS test grids bill by parallel execution and test minutes. Holiday peaks, regression sprees, and CI runaway all hit one line item. Finance asks why the test infrastructure cost is unpredictable. QA throttles coverage to manage spend.
SBOX uses annual licensing, predictable across the contract term. No per-execution metering, no noisy-neighbor surprises. Single-tenant infrastructure included in Managed Private Cloud, customer-paid in Private Cloud and VPC. The contract structure passes a DORA third-party ICT risk review without requiring a special exception.
Element34 ships five AI capabilities into SBOX. Each one runs inside your tenant. Each one calls your model, not a vendor's. Each one writes to your audit trail.
Plain-English banking test scenarios compiled into Selenium Java in your IDE. Branch, review, and merge like any other code change.
Explore Studio →When the mobile banking UI ships a redesign, Auto Heal updates locators automatically. No DOM snapshots leave the bank.
Explore Auto Heal →A failed regression on the wire-transfer flow gets a diagnostic report you can paste into a Jira ticket. Triage in minutes, not hours.
Explore Automated RCA →Daily readiness across web, mobile, API. 30 days of trendlines. AI-summarized risk before every production push.
Explore Pulse Report →Bank's Azure OpenAI subscription. Bank's audit trail. Bank's keys. Element34 never sees a prompt or response.
Explore BYO LLM →You choose how SBOX runs. Element34 does not choose for you. Tier-1 banks tend toward Managed Private Cloud for time-to-value, but the same DORA-aligned controls are available across all three.
Run SBOX on your dedicated infrastructure, fully behind the bank's firewall. For banks with hard data-residency mandates or air-gapped requirements.
Element34 runs a dedicated, single-tenant SBOX environment for the bank, pinned to your region. 24x7 SLA, white-glove operations.
Deploy SBOX inside the bank's AWS, Azure, or GCP account. Single-tenant inside your VPC with PrivateLink at the edge.
Same SBOX, same controls — only who operates it changes. Compare deployments →
Element34 does not claim SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or FedRAMP certifications. SBOX claims architectural capabilities that survive a banking security review and a DORA third-party ICT risk assessment. Six controls, six architectural answers, mapped to what banking compliance, audit, and procurement teams actually check.
Application data, session recordings, PII, and AI prompts stay inside the bank perimeter across all deployment modes. Maps to DORA Article 28 third-party ICT risk and GDPR data residency.
DORA + GDPRNo shared compute, no shared storage, no multi-tenant database. Per-bank isolation across every deployment. Procurement signs on architectural review.
Always single-tenantRuns without VPN tunnels or external connectivity back to Element34 infrastructure. The bank network is the only network in the chain.
Zero-trust postureYour model subscription. Your prompts. Your AI governance review. SBOX AI calls the bank's own LLM provider; Element34 never sees a prompt.
BYO LLMSession-level and user-level logs, exportable to your bank SIEM. Splunk, IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel supported natively. Auditable end-to-end.
Customer SIEM exportData residency, role-based access via SSO and SCIM, encryption at rest and in transit. The same architectural controls that carry most of the weight in a DORA readiness review.
GDPR + PSD2 + DORASame SBOX, same deployments, same controls. The compliance vocabulary changes from DORA to Solvency II and from PSD2 to NAIC. The architecture does not. Swiss Re, AXA, and AXA XL run SBOX inside their environments today.
Session-level audit logs stream to the insurer SIEM. Internal model validation evidence reconstructable. ORSA documentation aligned by architecture.
US insurance carrier-aligned by architecture. State-level Model Law compatibility. PII residency end-to-end. No transfer of regulated insurance data to Element34.
PII in claims data, underwriting screens, and policy administration never leaves the insurer tenant. Single-tenant in every deployment. Customer-controlled keys.
SBOX AI calls your model, not a vendor's. Model card per release. Element34 not in scope of the AI governance review. Prompts and responses never traverse Element34.
A retail and corporate banking group operating across the EU replaced a public-cloud testing SaaS with SBOX, region-pinned to EU-Central. The driver: DORA readiness and an internal audit finding on third-party AI usage.
The previous testing platform held PII and PCI-scoped data in a vendor cloud. Internal audit flagged it during a DORA readiness review. Per-execution metering blew the QA budget on regression sprees, and the bank could not verify EU residency on every audit.
Element34 deployed SBOX as a Managed Private Cloud pinned to EU-Central, integrated the bank's AI provider for Auto Heal and Automated RCA, and wired session-level audit logs into the bank's existing SIEM. Annual licensing replaced per-execution metering. Transition completed inside one quarter.
Whether you are scoping SBOX against DORA, replacing a public-cloud testing SaaS that no longer passes your ICT third-party risk review, or planning a Managed Private Cloud pinned to your region, we are ready to talk. We will scope a banking-grade SBOX deployment for your team, share the architecture documents your security review needs, and pull a working AI authoring and healing demo against a non-production banking app you choose.
