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The Ephemeral Enterprise

How Treating Data as Transitory Reduces Risk and Simplifies Compliance

Many regulated enterprises have a data architecture problem. Their legacy systems retain sensitive data, increasing their risk exposure. This white paper explains Elixir Cloud's unique transitory data model, which ensures secure, compliant data processing that minimizes risk.

Inside, you’ll learn:

  • Why legacy CCM and monolithic systems encourage a 'store everything forever' mindset
  • How minimizing data retention supports compliance
  • What Elixir Cloud's transitory processing model looks like in practice and how it reduces risk
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Download the white paper to see how forward-thinking enterprises are rethinking data architecture without compromising compliance.

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Mature data security in CCM isn't about building higher walls. It's about eliminating the liability altogether.

When systems are built to permanently store operational data, every integration, workflow, and personalization initiative expands audit scope and breach liability. For years, regulated organizations have responded to growing privacy and security mandates by adding more controls: more firewalls, more monitoring, more storage safeguards, more retention policies.

This paper argues that the real path to lower risk is minimizing persistent data in the first place.

The less data your software retains, the lower your risk.

If you’re in compliance, IT, or digital transformation, you’re likely caught in a familiar tension: You need to modernize, personalize, and innovate without increasing risk.

You don’t need to choose between compliance and agility. You need a system that was designed for both.

That's why we built Elixir Cloud on a secure architecture, rather than treating security and compliance as after-the-fact considerations.

We created this white paper to help explain how Elixir Cloud can help your organization:

  • Reframe security conversations around architectural risk, not just perimeter controls

  • Align modernization initiatives with regulatory principles like data minimization and storage limitation

  • Reduce breach exposure without sacrificing customer communication performance

  • Evaluate vendors and platforms through the lens of transitory vs. persistent data processing

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By architecting our system to not store the most sensitive data, we have reduced the potential blast radius to near zero.

A system cannot leak what it does not have.

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Learn how Elixir Cloud helps you enforce data security and compliance with transitory data processing.

Our data processing model aligns with the principles of shift-left security, security by design, and the realities of a zero-trust world. Learn more by downloading the white paper.