Very Good Security

Very Good Security (VGS) is a data security and payments infrastructure company that lets organizations operate on sensitive data — payment card numbers, bank accounts, PII, and other regulated information — without the cost or liability of storing it themselves. Its core Vault tokenization platform substitutes sensitive values with format-preserving aliases so customer systems never touch raw data, dramatically reducing PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance scope. VGS also offers Zero Data (a proxy that keeps the customer environment entirely out of PCI scope), a Card Management Platform (network tokens, account updater, 3D Secure), and VGS Control for compliance automation. The developer surface includes the Vault HTTP API for aliases/tokenization, VGS Collect and VGS Show client SDKs, a Terraform provider, and the vgs-cli command line tool. Founded in 2015, VGS is backed by a16z and stores over 5 billion tokens.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

How we profile Very Good Security

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Very Good Security. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 1

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Very Good Security aliases API

Unique IDs that retain all the essential information about the data without compromising its security.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

very-good-security-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Very Good Security Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Very Good Security Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Very Good Security Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Very Good Security Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Very Good Security Scopes

3 scopes · clientCredentials

3 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Every other property we hold for Very Good Security — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

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