AI Platform / Security & Compliance
Trust built on transparency.
At Workday, trust is foundational to everything we do. We deploy industry-leading safeguards and continuously monitor our systems, ensuring the security and compliance of your sensitive people and money data.
our commitment
AI innovation driven by integrity.
Built-in enterprise protection.
We protect your critical HR and financial assets by embedding privacy-by-design principles and multi-layered data encryption.
Complete customer governance.
With Workday, you have total ownership of your data through flexible, configurable privacy controls and self-certified global transfer frameworks.
Continuous audit & adaptability.
Your regulatory validation is streamlined with real-time audit logs, leading third-party attestations, and tools that automatically adapt as regulations evolve.
Lawful by design.
Our agents are governed at every step through scoped authority and built-in accountability, ensuring actions are lawful, transparent, and auditable.
UNIFIED GOVERNANCE
Keep track of every agent.
See the agents operating across your organization, who owns them, what they can access, and how they're being used—all from one place.
Know every agent.
Give each agent a clear identity, purpose, and owner.
Set the boundaries.
Control who can use an agent and what information and actions it can access.
See what happened.
Review agent activity, proposed actions, and approval decisions in one record.
“Having the ability to leverage the security and privacy controls within Workday enables us to confidently spin up new apps to meet our unique needs and drive more value from our Workday investment.”
Manager of Finance Applications
industry-leading safeguards
How we earn and keep your trust.
01
Security.
Workday safeguards your data, applications, and infrastructure through rigorous measures across our people, processes, and technology—including end-to-end data encryption, continuous monitoring, and role-based access controls.
02
Privacy.
With Workday, you’re in full control of your data, with configurable security settings and clear transparency to help maintain data protection and respect user privacy.
03
Compliance.
Workday maintains strict adherence to global standards through third-party audit reports, attestations, and certificates designed to support complex legal and regulatory requirements.
04
Responsible AI.
Through our principles and practices, we put responsible AI into action by innovating with integrity, prioritizing human-centered design, and ensuring every model is transparent and explainable.
05
Corporate integrity.
Workday fosters an organizational culture of trust by ensuring all leadership and employees receive mandatory security and data protection training to maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct.
06
Environmental, social & governance (ESG).
To promote sustainable, resilient business operations, Workday hosts services in state-of-the-art, energy-efficient data centers, built with environmental safeguards and redundant backup power management.
Security & Compliance FAQs.
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