Modern infrastructure isn’t just about speed and scale, it’s about trust. Especially in capital markets, where platforms hold sensitive financial and personal data, the bar for identity, security, and compliance isn’t just high, it’s fundamental.
From day one at Vinyl, we treated these concerns not as constraints or afterthoughts, but as core product design principles. Instead of bolting on controls after the fact, we embedded security and compliance directly into the architecture, user experience, and operational model.
Cloud-native and Zero Trust Architecture
Nearly every stock registrar and transfer agent still runs on legacy systems dating back decades, built on on-prem or hybrid infrastructure. These older systems often depend on manual patches, custom middleware, and siloed logs, all of which slow response time and auditability.
Vinyl was built differently. Our platform runs on AWS public cloud infrastructure and follows a Zero-Trust architecture, meaning we assume every access, from any user, on any device is a potential threat unless proven otherwise through strong authentication and authorization.
A New Baseline for Identity
Before anyone logs in, signs a document, or executes a transaction, they need to be verified. Not just for convenience, for certainty. That’s why we embedded Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB), and OFAC screening directly into onboarding flows and transactional checkpoints. Whether it’s a shareholder updating their mailing address or an issuer approving a transfer, every identity is validated, every action verifiable.
Legacy platforms treat identity like an assumption, we treat it like infrastructure. We also designed our system to accommodate every kind of shareholder or participant: Joint Tenants, Trusts, Corporate Entities, each with distinct rights and regulatory implications. These are not edge cases to us. They are first-class actors in our data model.
Security Without Friction
Security should never get in the way of usability but neither should usability compromise security. That’s why Vinyl offers passwordless access, adaptive two-factor authentication, and flexible authentication methods including voice and WhatsApp for international shareholders. We support mobile, desktop, and API-based access with the same high standards, ensuring users can interact however they need without introducing risk.
For machine clients like share plan administrators or brokerage back offices, we implemented modern OAuth-based authentication and authorization. Each API call is scoped, logged, and secured by design. The result: seamless access for real humans, strict protocols for machine-to-machine integrations, and complete visibility into who’s doing what and when.
This foundation also allows us to support real-time proxy voting, secure document execution, and shareholder communication without relying on opaque back-end processes or brittle email chains. More importantly, we’ve made the system always audit-ready. Every transaction, whether an issuance, cancellation, or approval, is immutably recorded. We don’t just store data; we capture its provenance.
Always-On Protection
Security isn’t just a login screen. It’s how you handle code, data, and deployment. We run static and dynamic application security testing (SAST and DAST), SBOM scanning, cloud infrastructure audits, and vulnerability detection across our entire pipeline. If something’s not right, it doesn’t ship. We deploy everything using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across multiple cloud regions, with dynamic autoscaling for performance and disaster recovery. The platform is designed to handle IPO-level spikes without breaking a sweat or compromising availability.
Attestation by Independent Auditors
Vinyl benchmarks its security practices against established standards from recognized bodies including AICPAs SOC2 and international frameworks like ISO 27001. To ensure these controls work in the real world, we conduct regular penetration testing with qualified third-party ethical hackers.
We also safeguard personal data under strict requirements of CCPA and GDPR, ensuring every layer of the platform meets modern privacy expectations. And we are transparent about it: our website outlines our data practices and the security controls we operate, along with the independent reports that cover our product, technology, people and processes.
The Real Measure of Trust
None of these systems exist for their own sake. They’re in service of a simple but critical promise: that issuers and shareholders can trust the information, the process, and the outcome.
If you work with Vinyl, you’re working with a platform that treats identity, security, and compliance as design principles, not as add-ons. That’s how modern capital markets infrastructure should work.
We’re building it. Reach out if you want to see it in action.
