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Confidencial Inc announces availability of public beta.

January 1, 2026Menlo Park, CA

Confidencial Inc announces availability of public beta.

Confidencial Inc announces availability of public beta.

Confidencial Inc, today announced the release of its public beta. Users will be able to selectively encrypt documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and many other formats, and limit the visibility of the content in them to specific individuals or groups, ensuring secure collaboration both inside and outside of the organization.

Confidencial has developed a seamless solution that integrates directly into leading business applications. An entire document can be encrypted through a single click, or portions of a document can be encrypted specifically for select individuals. Multiple versions of a single document will no longer be necessary as sections of documents can be encrypted to be viewed only by specified parties. Confidencial is a zero-trust solution with a distributed key management infrastructure and will never have access to an organization’s sensitive information. Confidencial’s integration into business applications means native file formats and file extensions are retained, and existing workflows for the creation, storage, and distribution of sensitive information are not disrupted.

The Observability Dashboard is an additional layer of security and compliance, creating an audit trail of all document access.

Since releasing its private beta in August of 2022, Confidencial has seen steady growth in the number of organizations looking to protect sensitive information such as Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and corporate intellectual property (IP).  It has quickly gained traction within the financial services, life sciences, and defense sectors due to its focus on unstructured information, ease of use, selective encryption, and ability to track access to documents.

Karim Eldefrawy, CTO and Co-founder

Razmik Abnous, CEO and Co-founder

Companies trust Confidencial to secure their sensitive information:

  • Kyowa Kirin
  • JUUL Labs
  • SRI International
  • Pralogy
  • WERU Investment
  • First Spark Ventures

Confidencial’s public beta can be accessed from the Confidencial website and the Microsoft app store

Confidencial currently supports:

  • Microsoft Office add-ins for Word, Excel, and Outlook
  • PDF
  • Web-based and Desktop App for drag-and-drop encryption/decryption for any file type
  • Platform support for Windows and Mac
  • Integration with Identity Providers: Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and any OpenID and SAML-compliant systems

Key Features:

Full Document or Selective Encryption

No need to create multiple versions of redacted documents. Confidencial gives you the ability to encrypt an entire document with the click of a button, or selectively encrypt sections of a document to multiple individuals who can only decrypt the information they are authorized to view.

Encryption/Decryption Within Your Native Business Applications

Encryption and decryption happen within the native business application.

Preserves Native Document Format and Extension

Original document format and extension are preserved, and documents can be viewed in their native business applications*. (* with the exception of PDF)

Documents Remain in Their Preferred Storage Locations

Store documents as you do today.

Encrypt/Decrypt Ad Hoc File

Confidencial provides a unique web application to encrypt/decrypt virtually any file format such as audio, video, and photos.

Observability Dashboard of All Activity

Confidencial’s observability dashboard provides detailed audit trail information of all encryption decryption events occurring inside and outside your organization.

Desktop, Mobile, and Web-Based Support

A single solution that works across desktop, mobile, and web-based applications.

Secure Content and Keys

Confidential never has access to your keys, and because your content is housed in existing storage systems (e.g., SharePoint, Box), Confidential never has access to your information.

About Confidencial Inc

Confidencial is a Menlo Park, California-based provider of data security and privacy-enhancing technologies for protecting sensitive information and collaboration for modern distributed enterprises. Its core technology integrates with existing business applications and enables end-to-end secure (zero-trust) sharing of unstructured documents on a need-to-know basis inside and outside the enterprise. Confidencial’s technology was originally developed under Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) programs and its founding team is composed of leading business software executives and cybersecurity and cryptography experts.

For more information, please visit www.confidencial.io.

About Confidencial

Confidencial is an advanced data protection platform that embeds cryptographic protection directly into sensitive and unstructured data. Built on technology developed at SRI International under DARPA funding, Confidencial enables organizations to protect, share, and govern sensitive data across AI pipelines, collaboration tools, and third-party workflows without disrupting how people work. Confidencial is ISO 27001 certified, HIPAA compliant, and PCI DSS compliant. Learn more at confidencial.io.

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