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Deal data shared with no field-level controls
From signed LOI to integration cutover, sensitive deal data moves across data rooms, advisors, acquired estates, and AI workflows. Confidencial embeds selective encryption into every file at the source — so protection travels with the deal, not just inside the data room.
Not through a breach. Through the process itself — the data room download, the advisor handoff, the integration cutover. Each phase resets your protection. None of them have to.
You shared the data room. Three bidders had access. One dropped out. You revoked their VDR login — but the financial models, the clinical IP, the contract schedules they downloaded are still fully readable on their devices. There is no technical mechanism to reach them. The NDA is your only protection. NDAs are not encryption.
The deal closes. The acquired company’s file estate — scattered across S3 buckets, SharePoint sites, network drives, and cloud repos — moves into your environment. No one knows what’s in it. Hundreds of terabytes land in your infrastructure before a single classification policy has been applied. That’s not integration. That’s an inheritance of risk.
License agreements, royalty schedules, and clinical IP signed during this deal must stay confidential for 20 to 50 years. Adversaries are already harvesting encrypted deal traffic today — to decrypt when cryptographically relevant quantum computers arrive. The standard encryption protecting your deal documents will not survive that window. The cryptography must outlive the contract.
From letter of intent to integration cutover, a deal moves through four phases — each one a fresh exposure surface for IP, contracts, financials, and PHI. Protection resets at every handoff. None of them have to.
Four phases. One encryption engine. One key set. Protection resets at no handoff.
Same encryption engine, same identity model, same audit trail across every phase of the deal. No re-encryption events between handoffs.
Stand up the data room in your cloud
Spaces deploys a branded data room under your keys, your policy, your identity model. Per-bidder folder access from minute one. Every open, export, and signature is logged immutably to identity. Revoke any bidder at the folder level, not just the link, at any point in the process.
Scan the acquired company before anything moves
Discover scans the acquired estate in place — S3, Azure Blob, SharePoint, OneDrive, NetDocs, network drives. If pre-close access isn’t available, Confidencial Pipeline sits inline on the migration pipeline and classifies every file as it crosses. Classification policy is unified either way.
Apply selective encryption, field by field
Sensitive entities like PHI, IP, financial terms, contract schedules, and pricing are encrypted at the field, paragraph, or document level. Non-sensitive content stays readable. Files open normally in Word, Excel, or PDF. Protected fields are computationally inaccessible without the appropriate role.
Move hundreds of terabytes, safely
Confidencial Migrate encrypts at the source store, transfers with full folder hierarchy intact, and lands protected at the destination, or directly into a Space. No plaintext copy is produced on a transfer wire. A misrouted batch or a tapped network sees only ciphertext. Immutable per-run audit trail, discoverable for regulators and counsel.
Files land protected and stay that way
Inside the acquiring organization, protection persists. AI workflows, sharing, and partner handoffs operate over selectively protected documents. Confidencial Shield and AI Guard enforce the same policy that governed the deal from Day 1 — no re-encryption, no policy reset, no gap at the cutover date.
VDRs control access inside the room. DLP watches the perimeter. DSPM classifies after the fact. None of them follow the file when it leaves. Here’s where each one fails across the four deal phases.
VDRs control access inside the room. DLP watches the perimeter. DSPM classifies after the fact. None of them follow the file when it leaves. Confidencial is the only solution that protects deal data at the field level — through bidder downloads, bulk migration, and AI workflows — with a cryptographic audit trail that survives the deal close.
Not a VDR you rent and return. A cryptographic spine that runs the entire transaction, from first data room to final integration, and survives every handoff, every regulatory examination, and the quantum transition.
Faster, cleaner diligence rooms
Stand up a branded Space in hours, not days. Revoke a bidder in one click in the folder, not just the link. Every access event is logged to identity. Deal counsel gets an audit package at close without a discovery request.
No surprises at integration
The acquired estate’s risk surface is known before integration day — not the morning after. Every sensitive file classified, every encrypted field documented, every policy applied before a single terabyte moves into your environment.
Terabytes without a plaintext copy
Migrate moves hundreds of TBs without ever producing a plaintext copy on a transfer wire, including a misrouted one. A tapped network, a misconfigured pipeline, a wrong-destination transfer: none of them produce readable deal data.
Protection past the cutover
Files stay selectively encrypted inside the acquiring organization. Downstream AI, sharing, and partner workflows inherit the same policy the deal started with. No gap at Day 365. No re-encryption project eighteen months later.
Cryptographic chain of custody
Every access event (who opened which field, which document, when, from where) is logged immutably and mapped to identity. Audit-ready for SEC examination, regulatory inquiry, or litigation the day the deal closes.
Quantum-safe from Day 1
M&A contracts, license agreements, and clinical IP signed today must stay confidential for 20–50 years. Confidencial’s hybrid-PQC engine means the file encrypted in the data room on Day 1 survives Q-Day without re-encryption. Encrypt once. The cryptography outlives the contract.
Once a bidder downloads files from our data room and drops out, can we get that data back?
You can’t retrieve the files, but with Confidencial, you don’t need to. Selective encryption is embedded in the document, not enforced by the VDR. When you revoke the bidder’s access, the encrypted fields on their local copy become instantly inaccessible. The NDA is your legal protection. Confidencial is your technical one.
We’re acquiring a company with files across a dozen cloud systems. How do we know what’s sensitive before we move it?
Discover scans the acquired estate in place (S3, Azure Blob, SharePoint, OneDrive, NetDocs, network drives) before anything moves. If pre-close access isn’t available, Confidencial sits in line on the migration pipeline and classifies every file as it crosses. Either way, the acquiring organization knows the complete risk surface before integration day, not after.
We close 10+ deals a year. Can this scale across concurrent transactions?
Yes. Each deal runs on its own pace, with separate keys, separate policy, and separate audit trail. Your existing identity model (Okta, Entra ID) governs access across all transactions. Adding a new deal is a workspace configuration, not a new deployment.
Our deal documents need to stay confidential for 20+ years. Is today’s encryption safe for that horizon?
Standard RSA and AES-based encryption will not survive the quantum window. Adversaries are already harvesting encrypted deal traffic today — to decrypt when cryptographically relevant quantum computers arrive. Confidencial uses a hybrid-PQC engine at the document layer. Files encrypted today migrate to post-quantum algorithms without re-encrypting existing data. Encrypt once. The cryptography survives Q-Day.
How do we produce a complete audit trail for regulatory examination or litigation after the deal closes?
Confidencial logs every access event (who opened which field, in which document, at what time, from where) immutably and maps it to identity. At deal close, the audit package is ready: field-level access history, encryption status per document, policy change log, and bidder access timeline. It satisfies SEC examination, FDA regulatory inquiry, and trade secret litigation without a discovery request.
Financial models. Clinical IP. Contract schedules. License agreements. Most deal teams can’t answer this question: which files are readable on a device you no longer control? The M&A Data Protection Assessment maps your current deal exposure in 20 minutes. Most teams are surprised by what they find.