Data-level protection

Go ahead. Share it. Move it. Feed it to AI.

Confidencial uses granular data protection to secure only the sensitive parts of a document, down to the paragraph, the cell, the field. The protection travels with the data, so even if stolen, the file is unreadable to everyone else. See every access. Revoke anytime.

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DARPACryptography lineage
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SOC 2 Type IICertified
NISTApproved algorithms
Post-quantum readyCRYSTALS-Kyber
why data needs its own protection

Your sensitive data leaves the building every day.

But your security controls don't follow it.
Your most sensitive file left your control the moment someone hit send. It's in a vendor's inbox, a regulator's portal, an AI's training pipeline. None of those layers travel with the data. The data layer has always been the gap.

01
Perimeter·Guards the network. The file leaves the network.
02
Identity·Verifies the person. Verified people forward files.
03
Endpoint·Secures the device. The file goes to devices you don't own.
04
ApplicationGoverns access inside the app. Downloads happen outside it.
The data Plaintext
NAME Jordan A. Mitchell
SSN 647–8831
CARD 4532 7714 9930 1188
SALARY $142,000
ACCOUNT CHK ·· 4471
AI pipeline Visible to LLM
$11.5M
Average cost of a US data breach.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2026
60%
Of breaches involve a third party.
Verizon DBIR 2025
77%
Of employees paste company data into AI tools.
Cyberhaven Research 2024
40%
Of AI file uploads contain sensitive data.
layerx research

Your stack reduces the probability.

Confidencial changes the 

Your security tools are designed to stop data from leaving. We guarantee it doesn't matter when it does.

The answer

The breach may happen, but the blast radius collapses.

A breach of unreadable data is an incident report. A breach of readable data is a disclosure, a regulator, and a board meeting.

We give you control by embedding cryptographic protection directly in the file. The file could be exfiltrated, shared with a vendor, ingested by an AI, or sitting on a USB drive in a parking lot.  With Confidencial, protection travels with the data, wherever it goes. And it stays yours. You see every access attempt, every hop, every forward. You revoke anytime.

Breach
Exfiltrated files are ciphertext.
The attacker gets out with the data. They leave with nothing usable. Incident scoping drops from weeks to hours.
Doesn't matter.
Insider action
Access revoked. Files stop opening.
A departing employee, a misaligned contractor, a compromised account. Wherever the file went, access is revocable after the fact. The data goes dark.
Doesn't matter.
AI ingestion
The model sees only what it should.
Sensitive fields stay encrypted through RAG pipelines, copilot queries, and agentic workflows. The AI works. The data stays protected.
Doesn't matter.
Third-Party Sharing
Their breach is not your breach.
When a vendor is breached, the files you shared with them are already unreadable. Their exposure doesn't become yours.
Doesn't matter.
How it works

The file is the perimeter.

Protection that travels with the data, not the infrastructure around it. Deployed in under two weeks, without re-architecting anything you've already built.

To AI Model ingestion, RAG pipelines To regulators FDA, SEC, OCC submissions To vendors Contractors, auditors, BPO To partners M&A data rooms, counsel
01Find

Discover what you have.

Scan your environment, including cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Know exactly where your sensitive data exposure lives.

02Protect

Encrypt at the field level.

Cryptographic protection fused directly into the data. Not the folder. Not the server. The object itself.

03Share

Send to anyone, safely.

Files travel to partners, vendors, regulators, AI pipelines. Each recipient sees only what they're cleared to see.

04Control

Audit and revoke anytime.

Track exactly who accessed what, at the field level. Revoke access after the fact, wherever the file went.

selective encryption

One document. Different keys.
Different people see different data.

The document looks identical to everyone. They just can't read what they're not cleared to see. Patented selective encryption is applied at the word, cell, or field level, embedded directly in the file. No redacted copies. No duplicate versions. One document. One key per element.

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Employment Agreement — Acme Corp
1 Mar 2025 · Rev 3 · Confidential
HR Manager

AI Agent receives context, never secrets. Salary and PII fields are encrypted before ingestion.

Use cases

Where Confidencial
lives in your world.

Every scenario below has ended careers and triggered board meetings. With Confidencial, none of them do.

AI data governance
Your AI pipeline doesn't know what it's not supposed to know.
RAG pipelines, copilots, and agents process documents containing PII, IP, and regulated data. The model sees everything, including what it shouldn’t.
Sensitive fields stay encrypted through the pipeline. The model works. The data stays protected. Governance travels with it.
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Insider risk
The threat already has valid credentials.
A departing employee, a disgruntled contractor, a compromised account with legitimate access. Identity controls don’t stop what happens after authentication.
Access revoked at the policy level, not the folder level. Files stop opening wherever they went. The data goes dark.
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Third-party sharing
Your vendor’s security posture is now your problem.
60% of breaches involve a third party. Every file shared with a vendor, partner, or contractor is a file living on infrastructure you don’t control.
The vendor never had plaintext. Revoke access after the engagement ends. Their breach is contained before it starts.
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M&A diligence
The data room is as exposed as the deal is sensitive.
Outside counsel, financial advisors, and counterparty teams all need access. One breached firm means your deal data is in someone else’s hands.
Each recipient sees only their permitted fields. Access revocable after sharing. Their breach is not your breach.
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Regulatory submissions
Sensitive filings sent to regulators unprotected.
FDA submissions, SEC filings, HIPAA-covered records. Sent via email, portal, or counsel. Once it leaves, you’ve lost control of what happens to it.
Cryptographic proof replaces attestation. Protection enforced inside the file — auditable on demand, logged every open.
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IP protection
Your most valuable IP is a plaintext file.
Source code, formulations, or engineering specs stored in a repo, a shared drive, a contractor’s laptop. One compromised credential away from exfiltration.
Encryption fused at the file level. Exfiltrated data is ciphertext. The attacker leaves with nothing usable.
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our solutions

One cryptographic engine.
Every surface where your data is at risk.

Five products that close the gaps your current stack was never designed to address.

Discover & ShieldExchange
AI Guard
Pipeline
DISCOVER & SHIELD

Data at rest, at scale.

Automatically scan distributed cloud and on-premise environments to discover, assess, classify, and protect data at risk. From TB to PB.

  • Automated Classification: AI-driven engine continuously scans and categorizes sensitive data without manual intervention.
  • Real-Time Risk Maps: Detailed visualizations pinpoint where sensitive data resides to help enhance compliance efforts.
  • Selective Encryption: Protect data down to the word, paragraph, or pixel while preserving the original file format.
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Discover & Shield Data
SECURE DOCUMENT EXCHANGE

Send, request, sign, and share, without losing control of the data.

Exchange wraps cryptographic protection around every document workflow. Contracts, regulatory filings, and e-signatures — each file is encrypted client-side, tracked end-to-end, and revocable after it leaves your hands.

  • Secure Send & Request: Share or request from anyone. Recipients see only what they're permitted to — even if the file is forwarded.
  • E-Signature with Protection: Sign without exposing the document to the signing platform. Encryption travels through the entire workflow.
  • Protected Data Rooms: M&A, regulatory submissions, partner onboarding. Every document carries its own access policy. Their breach is not your breach.
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Secure Document Exchange
AI GUARD

Unified data protection and governance for AI workflows.

Context-preserving protection for RAG, fine-tuning, and long-context models — ensuring safe ingestion and output filtering.

  • Semantic-Preserving: Tokenize sensitive fields (PII, IP) while keeping surrounding context readable for the model.
  • Agent-Level Access: Identity-aware encryption ensures only authorized users and AI agents can decrypt data.
  • Provable Compliance: Full audit trails support alignment with ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF frameworks.
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AI Guard
PIPELINE

Inline protection for every file, before it arrives.

An API-driven protection pipeline. Point it at a file, a folder, or an application. It scans, applies policy, and outputs a protected version. No manual redaction, no custom pipelines.

  • Policy-Driven Entity Protection: Encrypt, redact, or tokenize sensitive data at the field level, preserving the original file format.
  • API-Native Integration:: Any application that can trigger an HTTP call can use IPS — email, file transfer, AI ingestion. Protection becomes automatic.
  • Intercepted at the Moment of Movement: Files are protected before they reach their destination — not after the fact.
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In-line protection service
customer stories

6 million exposed files. Found in a single scan.

Live deployments. Real environments. Every number below is sourced from an active customer.

Customer Stories — Confidencial
From a single initial scan — single enterprise environment
8
Repositories scanned
In one deployment
2.6M+
Sensitive entities found
Already accessible. Already moving.
10%
Sensitive data concentration
In a forgotten migration folder — years old, still live
Legal
AmLaw 50 law firm
500+ TB of privileged data. Blind spots across five cloud environments. Cleaned up without disrupting a single workflow.
3,000 OneDrive accounts, 2,000 SharePoint sites, Box, AWS S3, and Azure Blob — siloed discovery tools were leaving compliance gaps and bloating AI pipelines with unfiltered sensitive data.
OneDrive SharePoint Box AWS S3 Azure Blob ABA 1.6
Financial Services
Big Five Canadian bank
Regulatory submissions shared externally. Control retained at every step.
After the OCC disclosed an 18-month email breach exposing 150,000+ sensitive communications, banks needed persistent protection on every file before it left their systems — not just encrypted transit.
OCC BankNet HIPAA ISO 42001
Pharma
Top 5 global pharma company
FDA submission data protected through every hand it passes through.
Trial results, formulation details, and clinical outcomes flowing through internal teams, CROs, and submission platforms — each handoff a gap. Protection needed to travel with the file, not stop at the boundary.
FDA CRO workflows GxP HIPAA
Insurance
Global insurance company
60 million files migrated to the cloud. Every one encrypted before leaving the building.
PDFs, TIFFs, AFP files, and Office documents moving from on-premises storage to AWS — with encryption keys staying on-prem and AI access preserved through selective, fine-grained controls per document.
AWS ISO 27001 NIST CSF 2.0 GDPR
Financial Services
Big Five Canadian bank
Regulatory submissions shared externally. Control retained at every step.
The challenge
The bank was sending supervisory submissions containing customer PII, financial models, and cybersecurity assessments to the OCC via BankNet and email. When the OCC disclosed an 18-month email breach that exposed over 150,000 sensitive communications, the underlying risk became clear: once files were transmitted, they were stored on OCC systems without persistent protection — no way to track access, revoke permissions, or prevent duplication.
What changed
Confidencial embedded encryption, granular access controls, and full traceability into every document before it left the bank. OCC reviewers access files through secure, view-only links — no software required. Every action is logged, access can be revoked at any time, and policies persist with the file across systems.
Result
Regulatory submissions transmitted via BankNet and email with persistent protection, full audit trails, and revocable access — eliminating clear-text data on external systems without disrupting the examiner workflow.
Pharma
Top 5 global pharma company
FDA submission data protected through every hand it passes through.
The challenge
Regulatory submission data — trial results, formulation details, clinical outcomes — flows through internal teams, CROs, and submission platforms before it reaches the FDA. Each handoff is a gap. Perimeter controls at each stop create a patchwork that breaks the moment data crosses an org boundary, and the CRO aggregation model means sensitive IP is constantly moving between parties who shouldn't have unfettered access.
What changed
Confidencial applied persistent protection directly to submission files at creation. Protection travels with the data through every system and every party in the workflow — internal, external, and regulatory — without requiring changes to how teams prepare or share files.
Result
Active FDA submission workflow protected end to end — across internal teams, CROs, and the submission platform — with no process disruption and no reliance on perimeter controls at each handoff.
Insurance
Global insurance company
60 million files migrated to the cloud. Every one encrypted before leaving the building.
The challenge
A global insurer needed to migrate over 60 million sensitive documents — PDFs, TIFFs, AFP files, and Microsoft Office formats — from on-premises storage to a new AWS-based content management system. To maintain data sovereignty and meet strict governance mandates, full and selective encryption had to be applied on-prem before transfer. No file could arrive in the cloud unprotected. And AI use of the migrated data had to be preserved through fine-grained access controls per document.
What changed
Confidencial deployed in a hybrid on-prem/cloud-agnostic configuration, encrypting documents locally before migration using two layers — outer layer for full document protection, inner layer for selective, fine-grained AI access control. The insurer retained custody of private keys within their own infrastructure throughout. Browser-based decryption eliminated software dependencies on the access side.
Result
60M+ files encrypted and moved to AWS under strict governance controls. Encryption keys stayed on-prem. AI access preserved through selective encryption. Reduced on-prem management costs and simplified document handling — while meeting ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0, and GDPR requirements.
Built to be trusted

Security you can verify.

Third-party certified, zero-knowledge by design. We can't see your data, and we can prove it.

  • Data-blind architecture: keys never leave your control
  • Post-quantum ready: NIST-approved ML-KEM and ML-DSA
  • Crypto agility built in: swap algorithms without re-encrypting

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ISO
27001

ISO 27001:2022 Certified

Your data never touches our infrastructure. Independently audited, not self-attested.
HIPAA

HIPAA Compliant

PHI encrypted at the field level. Even a breached file exposes nothing readable.

AICPA
SOC

SOC Attestation

Controls verified by an independent auditor. What we claim is what we do.

$14M+
Defense R&D
Originated at SRI International, which is the Stanford spin-out that helped shape the modern defense and computing era.
15+
Licensed Patents
Exclusively developed by Confidencial. Mission-grade cryptography, now commercial.
DARPA
Research Lineage
Backed by government research programs and deep tech VCs. Built for the hardest environments first.

Let's get started.

Two weeks to deploy. No re-architecture. And when they get in (because they will), there's nothing readable to take.

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