OPERATING INFRASTRUCTURE
/Sensitive work fails when the operating environment is improvised. Information scatters across tools, permissions drift, and decisions lose provenance. When scrutiny arrives, reconstruction becomes guesswork.
Knox exists to preserve continuity under pressure.
Knox is the governed environment used to coordinate investigations, protective planning, and decision support. It is designed to keep work coherent as complexity increases—across people, time zones, and stakeholders.
It enforces case containment, least-privilege access, and a reviewable record of decisions and actions. Visibility is controlled and deliberate—expanded only when it improves accountability and execution.
Purpose
Protect the work. Preserve the record.
Knox exists to protect the engagement itself. It reduces the coordination tax that accumulates in high-stakes environments and prevents failure modes created by stitched tool stacks.
- Containment: work is bound to the case, not spread across general workspaces.
- Control: access is explicit, role-scoped, and assignment-driven.
- Continuity: context survives handoffs, time, and escalation.
- Defensibility: decisions remain reconstructable under scrutiny.
The Problem with Stacks
Tools accumulate. Governance dissolves.
Most organizations coordinate sensitive work through a patchwork of files, threads, and ad hoc permissions. It works until it doesn’t—then accountability becomes unclear and the record becomes contested.
- Permissions drift across shared drives and chat workspaces.
- Critical context lives in side channels.
- Version control becomes social, not enforced.
- The “record” is whatever was last forwarded.
- Reconstruction during litigation or incident review becomes guesswork.
Client Visibility
Controlled transparency. Not ambient access.
Knox can provide client access to their matter. This is not “access to everything.” It is structured visibility designed to reduce friction and strengthen accountability without expanding exposure.
- Clients can review deliverables and retrieve documents without chasing threads.
- Visibility is role-scoped and compartmented to protect sources and methods.
- Release of sensitive outputs is explicit and deliberate.
- Access is attributable: who viewed what, when.
Identity & Access
Explicit grants. No ambient permissions.
Knox is built around disciplined access control. Users do not inherit visibility because they are “in the room.” Access is assigned, scoped, and reviewable.
- Role-based permissions scoped to each matter.
- Case segregation across clients, teams, and assignments.
- Administrative actions restricted and logged.
- Session discipline aligned to real-world risk.
Auditability
Accountability preserved as work happens.
Accountability is not produced after the fact. Knox preserves attribution and decision continuity during execution. The objective is reconstruction without improvisation.
- Attribution: who acted, when, and under what authority.
- Continuity: what a decision relied on and why it was made.
- Review readiness: the ability to answer hard questions with a coherent record.
Documents & Evidence
Provenance, handling, and controlled distribution.
Knox reduces uncontrolled link sprawl and preserves context around artifacts. The objective is not storage. The objective is defensibility.
- Case-bound storage with controlled visibility.
- Structured labeling for clarity and relevance.
- Redaction workflows supported without copy proliferation.
- Counsel-first routing when privilege and disclosure risk require it.
Assume Breach
Limit blast radius. Preserve forensic clarity.
Knox is designed under the assumption that perimeter defenses may fail. The operating objective is containment, clarity, and continuity—not optimism.
- Segmentation by case and role.
- Continuous validation of sessions and access paths.
- Constrained export patterns for sensitive artifacts.
- Auditability built in, not bolted on.
Operational Continuity
One record across stakeholders and time.
Sensitive work often spans legal, physical security, technical security, HR, investigators, and executive leadership. Knox keeps the engagement coherent as the number of stakeholders increases.
- Fewer handoff failures across teams and time zones.
- Clear ownership for tasks, decisions, and approvals.
- Lower friction for leadership visibility without uncontrolled access.
What Knox Is
A governed environment for sensitive work.
Knox is an operating environment designed for defensibility and control. It preserves continuity, attribution, and case-based containment as default conditions.
Knox is not a general-purpose file share. It is not a chat platform with a case bolted on. It is not convenience-first infrastructure that drifts over time.