Confidencial Newsroom
Feb 25, 2025
Menlo Park, SF – Feb 25, 2025 – Confidencial, a leading provider of unstructured data classification and protection solutions today announced that it has achieved “Awardable” status through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace.
The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), data, and analytics capabilities.
Confidencial is a data-centric security solution that meets organizations and government agencies wherever they are in their journey to risk mitigation, automatically identifying and protecting sensitive information found within documents, including controlled unclassified information and special access programs. They are used by a wide range of businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.
“Securing a position on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace constitutes a significant milestone and is a strong endorsement of our platform realizing the first practical approach to data-centric zero trust, especially for emerging AI use cases,” said Karim Eldefrawy, Co-founder and CTO of Confidencial. “The Department of Defense operates in one of the most complex and high-stakes security environments in the world. Partnering with them to safeguard unstructured data is both a privilege and a responsibility we take seriously. Confidencial is here to help government agencies streamline how they discover, classify, and protect sensitive information—ensuring mission-critical data remains secure wherever it resides, or however it is shared - within or beyond our borders.”
Confidencial’s video, “Confidencial.io | Discover, Classify, and Protect Sensitive, Unstructured Data”, accessible only by government customers on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, presents an actual use case in which the company’s innovative platform leverages advanced AI and Data-Centric Zero Trust principles to automatically discover, classify, and securing sensitive information hidden within unstructured data—spanning documents, images, and presentations—across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, delivering granular encryption and real-time visibility that secure critical data assets against breaches, insider threats, and compliance failures.
Confidencial was recognized among a competitive field of applicants to the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace whose solutions demonstrated innovation, scalability, and potential impact on DoD missions. Government customers interested in viewing the video solution can create a Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace account at tradewindAI.com.
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About Confidencial:
Our mission is to be woven into the technology fabric used by enterprises to govern and secure the sensitive information sitting inside their unstructured data. As an indispensable pillar of agentic AI infrastructure, Confidencial empowers responsible AI innovation and exploration without sacrificing ready and robust compliance, especially in highly regulated industries. No matter the threat or tactic, your data stays secure while getting more usable—and valuable—than ever.
For more information or media requests, contact: Julie Taylor, julie.taylor@confidencial.io
About the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace:
The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable pitch videos that address the Department of Defense’s (DoD) most significant challenges in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), data, and analytics space. All awardable solutions have been assessed through complex scoring rubrics and competitive procedures and are available to Government customers with a Marketplace account. Government customers can
create an account at www.tradewindai.com. Tradewinds is housed in the DoD’s Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office.
For more information or media requests, contact: Success@tradewindai.com