Does Confidencial work with our development platforms and SaaS tools?
Yes. Confidencial operates at the content layer, below your existing systems. Development platforms, SaaS tools, and engineering workflows operate exactly as they do today. No workflow changes, no retraining. Protection is applied when files are created or shared, and travels with the file into any environment it reaches.
How is this different from our DLP investment?
DLP catches accidental exfiltration, unauthorized sends, blocked uploads, flagged transfers. Technology company risk is authorized, intentional sharing: contractors, integration partners, enterprise buyers, AI vendors. DLP has no visibility or control once an authorized user shares an authorized file to an authorized recipient. That's the entire tech workflow. Confidencial is the layer that activates precisely where DLP stops.
What happens when a developer pastes source code or customer data into an AI coding tool?
Protected files return nothing usable to an unauthorized AI process. Customer PII, source code, and proprietary model logic are encrypted before they reach the model. The protection is cryptographic. It doesn't depend on developer awareness or behavior change. Depending on the data, this also closes CCPA, GDPR, and enterprise DPA obligations.
How does this address the credential compromise scenario?
An authenticated attacker reaches files they cannot open. Protection is embedded in the file itself, not dependent on access controls that the attacker has already bypassed. The incident scope drops from "everything accessible" to "everything decryptable without our keys." That's the difference between a business crisis and a contained event.
Does this satisfy enterprise security review and procurement requirements?
Enterprise procurement standards and your largest customers' security teams increasingly require demonstrable controls, not policy attestations. Confidencial's access log is the chain of custody evidence: generated automatically, producible on demand for any security review or customer audit. Cryptographic proof of what happened to data, when, and in which environment — across every contractor and vendor hop.
Do counterparties and vendors need to install anything?
No. Protection is embedded in the file at the organizational level before it leaves. Contractors and vendors work with the files exactly as they do today. The protection is architectural. It doesn't depend on recipient infrastructure, IT cooperation, or behavior change.
