DASF-46 — Store and retrieve embeddings securely

Source: official compendium, Databricks AI Mitigation Controls, row 48. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.

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Intent and implementation

Mosaic AI Vector Search is a vector database that is built into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and integrated with its governance and productivity tools. A vector database is a database that is optimized to store and retrieve embeddings. Embeddings are mathematical representations of the semantic content of data, typically text or image data. Embeddings are usually generated by feature extraction models for text, image, audio or multi-modal data, and are a key component of many GenAI applications that depend on finding documents or images that are similar to each other. Examples are RAG systems, recommender systems, and image and video recognition. Databricks implements the following security controls to protect your data: Every customer request to Vector Search is logically isolated, authenticated and authorized

Mosaic AI Vector Search encrypts all data at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+) and optionally can be encrypted with Customer Managed Keys (CMK).

Source metadata

• Category: Access and Authentication
• System component: Model Serving: Inference responses,
• Databricks responsibility: Databricks — Implementation
• Product reference: Co-managed
• Feature/control: Feature
• Security Analysis Tool reference: GOV-16
• Novelty: Novel AI Control/Capability

Databricks responsibility labels do not establish who enforces this control on another platform. Name a local owner and verify it.

Implementation references

• AWS documentation
• AZURE documentation
• GCP documentation

Risks linked by the risk table

• DASF-R-9.1
• DASF-R-9.2
• DASF-R-9.5
• DASF-R-9.6
• DASF-R-9.7
• DASF-R-9.8
• DASF-R-9.9
• DASF-R-9.10
• DASF-R-13.1
• DASF-R-13.16
• DASF-R-13.18

The control table separately reports: DASF-R-9.1, DASF-R-9.2, DASF-R-9.5, DASF-R-9.6, DASF-R-9.7, DASF-R-9.8, DASF-R-9.9, DASF-R-9.10, DASF-R-10.4, DASF-R-13.1, DASF-R-13.16, DASF-R-13.18. See source issues for differences.

Verification

Project adaptation: get_control returns a concrete evidence request, a proposed test, and an acceptance condition. A control description or product feature is not evidence of deployment or effectiveness.

Source-reported framework mappings

These are the mappings in this snapshot, with their original edition labels. They are references, not proof of conformity or independent validation.

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