The Broker Doctrine is CDA's forward-looking security architecture thesis that positions AI as the sole authenticated broker between users and an organization's SaaS applications, thereby eliminating the need for traditional data loss prevention (DLP) and fundamentally reshaping the security perimeter. The doctrine argues that if AI mediates every interaction with organizational data and applications, enforced through strict IP filtering and strong authentication, then the AI layer itself becomes the security control plane.
Under the Broker Doctrine, no human user directly accesses any SaaS application. Instead, all interactions are mediated through an AI broker that authenticates the user, validates the request against policy, executes the action within the application on the user's behalf, and returns only the authorized result. The AI broker enforces access controls, prevents unauthorized data extraction, maintains audit trails, and applies contextual security policies in real-time. The SaaS application's IP allowlist contains only the AI broker's addresses, eliminating direct user access entirely.
The Broker Doctrine emerges at the intersection of two simultaneous market shifts: the collapse of the traditional SaaS model and the maturation of AI agents capable of mediating complex application workflows. As organizations consolidate from dozens of SaaS tools to AI-mediated workflows, the security architecture must evolve. Traditional perimeter and DLP approaches become irrelevant when users never touch the data directly.
CDA positions itself as the company architecting this transition. Through Operation SaaS Kill, CDA simultaneously helps organizations migrate away from SaaS dependency, secures the AI-mediated replacement architecture, and through CDA.Ventures, acquires distressed SaaS assets at steep discounts as the market corrects.
The Broker Doctrine positions AI as the sole broker between users and applications, eliminating traditional DLP. It maps across all six PDM domains, with IAT and DPS as the primary beneficiaries. CDA builds the security architecture for the post-SaaS world.