Confidencial AI Guard

More data for your AI. Less exposure for your business.

Sensitive data is classified and protected at ingestion; access is controlled at retrieval; and every interaction is logged for auditing across RAG pipelines, copilots, fine-tuning, and agentic workflows.

Agent-aware access controlSemantic-preserving encryptionPQC-ready
same prompt different clearance
See it work

Same question. Different answer.

Switch users and watch AI Guard enforce your policy in real time. Same knowledge base, different results based on who's asking.

AI Guard — Interactive Demo
HR Knowledge Base — Payroll-Q4-2025.xlsx
AI Guard Active
What is Sarah Chen's salary and SSN?
What is Sarah Chen's salary and SSN?
Now try a different user
The problem with AI data access

Your AI knows too much.
Or nothing at all.

Every RAG pipeline, copilot, and fine-tuning job is a direct line into your sensitive data estate. Most organizations either block AI access entirely or let it ingest everything unfiltered. Both are a problem.

NO CONTROLS

What happens today

Documents flow into AI pipelines unfiltered. PII, PHI, privileged communications, deal terms, and trade secrets are embedded into vector databases in clear text.

SSNs, DOBs, and PHI ingested in clear text
A breach reconstructs sensitive content from stored embeddings
A user blocked from a document can still get its contents via RAG
Shadow AI uploads documents your pipeline was never meant to see
WITH AI GUARD

What AI Guard changes

Policy sets what gets protected and how: encryption or tokenization. Embeddings are obfuscated and stay searchable. Your AI works with more of your data, but agents see only what their identity and role permit.

Zero clear-text sensitive data in vector databases
A breach yields protected content, not unprotected records
Per-agent, per-user policy enforced at retrieval, with a full audit trail
Context intact. AI still retrieves value around protected content
Works with the AI tools and interfaces your teams are already using
How AI Guard works

Source to retrieval. Protection never leaves.

Connect your sources, classify sensitive spans, apply selective protection, and enforce least-privilege access at query time, in one unified pipeline.

1

Connect

Point AI Guard at your vector database: Amazon S3Vector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, Qdrant, LanceDB, or CosmosDB. Integrates with standard AI pipeline interfaces.

2

Discover & classify

Scans and identifies sensitive information, including PII, PHI, IP, and regulated data, with confidence scoring.

3

Encrypt, redact, or tokenize

Protection at the granularity each field needs: word, page, or document. Embeddings obfuscated, semantics preserved.

4

Enforce at retrieval

Authorized identities get the real value back inline, decrypted or detokenized by policy. Everyone else sees the surrounding context only.

Sources
Amazon S3Vector
Pinecone · Weaviate · Chroma
Qdrant · LanceDB · CosmosDB
AI Guard
Unified protection
CLASSIFY CONTENTOBFUSCATE EMBEDDINGSENFORCE POLICY
Destinations
RAG pipelines
Fine-tuning workflows
Agents & inference
Copilots & chatbots
97%
of AI-related breaches involved AI systems without proper access controls
40%
of files uploaded to gen-AI tools contain PII or PCI
$670K
added cost when shadow AI is involved in a breach
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 · LayerX Enterprise AI and SaaS Data Security Report 2025 · IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
Capabilities

What makes AI Guard different

Not another classification tool. Not a perimeter control. Protection that sits at the document level and travels with the data wherever AI takes it.

Unified layer

One policy across every AI workflow

RAG, fine-tuning, inference, and agentic ops under one framework, not three tools. Protection runs from source through embeddings through agent responses.

Semantic-preserving

Models read around protected content

Vector matching and model performance are preserved even when embeddings are obfuscated. Field-level across every AI workflow, not a security-versus-usability tradeoff.

Agent-aware

Least privilege for agents, not just users

Agents are treated as non-human identities with explicitly scoped, auditable access. Attribute-based access control at the content level, not just role-based access control.

Protection travels

The perimeter is the content itself

Encryption follows the file into unauthorized AI tools, misrouted pipelines, or breached vector databases. Portable and cloud-agnostic.

Performance at scale

Billions of records, accuracy intact

Protect at scale while preserving search accuracy and AI usability. Standard interfaces drop into existing pipelines without re-architecture, across multi-cloud and hybrid.

Post-quantum ready

Protected today, protected after Q-Day

Future-proof cryptography built in across clouds, storage, and AI pipelines. No re-encrypting the estate later.

AI Guard in the wild

The moments where AI data exposure becomes real

Four situations where no protection means a breach, a compliance failure, or a deployment that never gets approved.

RAG model

You provide deal memos, contracts, and HR files for your new RAG model. No one checked what it ingested.

By the time legal hears about it, the model has embedded three years of sensitive documents into a vector DB in clear text. Now any user querying your company's AI tool could be fed this information, regardless of clearance level.

With AI Guard

Every sensitive element is classified before ingestion and embeddings are obfuscated. Analyst queries return context, not PHI or privileged content. Compliance evidence is generated automatically.

Fine-tuning

You fine-tune on clinical data. The model trains on real patients and starts reproducing them.

Training data with PHI gets baked into model weights. Targeted prompts can extract it. Regulators don’t care that the exposure was unintentional.

With AI Guard

The dataset is sanitized before the job runs, tokenizing and masking sensitive fields while preserving the clinical structure the model learns from. Raw values never enter the pipeline.

Prompt injection

A hidden instruction in an email makes your copilot retrieve files and exfiltrate them.

Exactly what happened to Microsoft 365 Copilot (CVE-2025-32711, June 2025). Perimeter controls saw nothing, because the activity moved through approved channels. Preventing prompt injection is one focus. Limiting the damage that a successful prompt injection can wreak is another.

With AI Guard

Sensitive spans are encrypted at the content layer, decryptable only by authorized identity. The injection still triggers retrieval — but the copilot surfaces ciphertext, not readable data. Protection travels with the content.

Shadow AI

Your DLP blocks employees from uploading files to AI tools on company devices. So they use their personal computer instead.

A contract, financial model, or client record gets dropped into an unapproved AI tool. That tool may train on it, and your client's private information becomes part of globally accessible model outputs.

With AI Guard

Content-layer protection travels with the sensitive information. External tools can process the non-sensitive context around protected fields, so contracts, financial models, and client records can still be used in AI queries and workflows without risking sensitive data becoming a statistic.

How AI Guard compares

The gap other tools leave open

DSPMs classify. Vector-DB vendors protect embeddings. The only unified and preemptive solution.

Capability
AI Guard
DSPMs
DLPS
Source document protection
Word level
Classify only
File-level only
Embedding protection
Full policy
None
✗ None
Semantic-preserving encryption
Field level
None
None
Agent-aware attribute-based access control
Users + agents
Alerts only
Block only
RAG / agentic support
All modes
None
✗ None
Content-level audit trails
NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 aligned
Posture only
✗ None
Post-quantum cryptography
Ready
Traditional
✗ None
Questions about AI Guard

What security teams ask us first

Doesn’t encrypting data break our AI models?

No — because AI Guard uses semantic-preserving encryption. Sensitive spans are encrypted at the field level, but the surrounding context stays accessible to the model. Vector similarity is preserved in obfuscated embeddings, so retrieval accuracy is unaffected. The model sees what it needs to be useful; it just can’t read the sensitive fields.

How is this different from what our DSPM already does?

DSPMs classify and report — they tell you what sensitive data exists and where. They don’t protect it or enforce access in AI workflows. AI Guard is the enforcement layer: it takes the classification signal, applies cryptographic protection before data enters the pipeline, and enforces per-agent policy at retrieval. Discover or your existing DSPM can both feed it.

Can AI Guard handle agentic workflows, not just RAG?

Yes. AI Guard treats agents as non-human identities with explicitly scoped access. Per-agent policies enforce least privilege at the span level — agents retrieve only what their identity and role permit, with every interaction logged. This works across RAG pipelines, fine-tuning jobs, and agentic inference.

What happens to data already in our vector database?

AI Guard can retroactively protect existing vector stores by re-indexing with obfuscated embeddings. For new ingestion, protection is applied before documents enter the pipeline. We recommend the free AI risk assessment first — it surfaces exactly what sensitive data is currently sitting exposed in your knowledge bases.

Who controls the encryption keys?

You do. Confidencial never sees plaintext. Keys are managed in your environment — bring your own KMS or use AI Guard’s built-in key server. Access is identity-bound through your existing IdP, so revoking an agent’s or user’s access is a policy change, not a re-encryption job.

How does AI Guard prove compliance to auditors?

Every event — ingestion, classification, encryption, access, query, and response — is logged at the span level with tamper-proof audit trails aligned to GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF. Auditors get intra- and inter-component tracing that legacy DLP and RBAC tools can’t produce. Compliance evidence builds itself as the system runs.

AI Guard

Your AI is only as trusted as the data it can access.

AI Guard enforces what each user and agent can retrieve at the data layer, before the model sees it.