Drug formulations. Legal work product. Financial models. Clinical protocols. Every day, your most valuable IP leaves your systems, shared with CDMOs, outside counsel, advisors, and AI tools. Confidencial embeds selective encryption directly into the file so protection follows the data. Not just where your perimeter ends.
Not through a breach. Through the engagement, the collaboration, the shortcut. Each one a permanent transfer of competitive and regulatory value you can’t see and can’t reverse.
The CDMO engagement ends. The outside counsel matter closes. The advisor’s NDA expires. You revoke SharePoint, but the synthesis route, the deal memo, and the model’s source code are still fully readable on hardware you’ve never touched. The IP left the building the moment they hit download. Your perimeter never knew.
Three seconds. A drug formulation, a litigation strategy, a proprietary scoring model, pasted into an AI tool for a faster answer. It’s now in an inference log your legal team cannot subpoena and your compliance team cannot audit. In pharma, that’s a trade secret event. In financial services, that’s an MNPI risk. In both cases, you may never know it happened.
M&A diligence, licensing negotiations, regulatory submissions: each one moves proprietary files across organizations, advisors, and jurisdictions at speed. When the deal closes or collapses, there is no cryptographic record of who accessed which fields. No chain of custody for litigation. No evidence of control for the FDA, SEC, or SRA if they come asking.
From first scan to full coverage. No re-architecture. No new workflows for your team.
Find what is at risk before it moves
Confidencial scans OneDrive, Google Drive, SharePoint, S3, and on-premises shares. Built-in classifiers surface sensitive IP across your environment automatically.
Encrypt only the fields that matter
Selective encryption targets specific fields, formulas, or visuals inside a document. A manufacturer sees dimensions. They do not see the formula. Collaboration continues.
Enforce access by role, project, or time
Policy-based controls determine who sees what and under what conditions. Time-limited access, role-restricted visibility, geo-locked permissions. No one gets more than they need.
Pull access back after the file has left
Because encryption travels with the data, Confidencial revokes access from any device at any time. The engagement ends. The access ends with it. No device touch required.
Stop IP from entering AI pipelines
AI Guard intercepts and redacts sensitive content before it reaches AI prompts, training datasets, or vector databases. Teams keep their AI tools. Your IP stays out of them.
DLP, DSPM, and full-file encryption each solve part of the problem. None of them protect the data once it moves. Confidencial does.
DLP watches the upload. DSPM reads the label. Full-file encryption locks out your own team. None of them follow the data after it leaves your control. Confidencial is the only solution that protects at the field level — on any device, after any download, through any AI tool.
Once a CDMO or outside counsel downloads a file and leaves, can we still protect what’s in it?
Yes. Confidencial’s encryption is embedded in the file, not enforced at the network or storage layer. When the engagement ends, access is revoked at the key level. The synthesis route, matter file, or financial model on their device becomes computationally inaccessible immediately, without requiring an agent on their endpoint or a file return.
Our analysts use AI tools to summarize deal documents containing drug formulations and contract IP. How do we prevent sensitive fields from entering the model?
AI Guard protects sensitive data before it reaches AI workflows. Sensitive fields, including formulas, IP schedules, and financial terms, are encrypted or redacted at ingestion. The model summarizes and analyzes the non-sensitive content; protected spans are never exposed in plaintext and cannot be reconstructed from vector embeddings even if the repository is breached.
Can we revoke access to a clinical protocol that's already on a CRO's device?
Yes, immediately and remotely. Confidencial’s revocation operates at the cryptographic key level, not the SharePoint permission level. When the CRO engagement ends, you revoke authorization in Confidencial. The encrypted fields on any local copy, including a laptop, server, or backup, lock instantly. No agent required on their endpoint.
If we encrypt sensitive fields in matter files, can co-counsel and experts still work with them?
Yes. Selective encryption protects only the fields you designate, privileged strategy notes, sealed content, client-identifying information, while leaving the document structure, non-sensitive narrative, and formatting fully readable. Co-counsel opens the file in Word or iManage normally. The privileged sections appear encrypted to anyone without the appropriate role-based access.
How do we prove IP protection was in place during FDA review, SEC examination, or trade secret litigation?
Confidencial maintains cryptographic audit trails that record who accessed which specific fields, in which document, at what time, and from where. This creates a verifiable chain of custody for clinical data, supports SEC regulatory examination, and provides the field-level evidence required for trade secret misappropriation defense, evidence that folder-level access logs cannot provide.
Drug formulations. Matter files. Valuation models. Clinical protocols. Run a risk assessment to understand which files are protected, which are not, and quantify the risk.