Vendors, contractors, and partners need your data to do their jobs. The moment you send it, most security tools stop working. Confidencial embeds protection directly into the file, so you stay in control of what you shared, wherever it ends up.
Vendors and partners need your data to do their jobs. From the moment a file leaves, it lives on systems you don’t run, gets copied, and sometimes passed along again, and you stay accountable for all of it. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Five phases. One encryption layer. The keys never leave your environment.
From discovery to post-share governance. No new workflow for your vendors. No viewer required on their end.
Confidencial scans the files and repositories feeding your external workflows, such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, S3, contract systems. Classifiers surface sensitive content before it reaches a vendor.
Selective encryption targets specific fields inside a document. The vendor sees the contract terms, not the pricing model. The file opens normally in any app; the sensitive content stays controlled wherever it travels.
Confidencial’s Exchange workflows replace ad hoc email and upload portals. Send files with embedded access controls, request documents through a governed intake channel, which means every exchange tracked from open to close.
When a vendor relationship closes or a risk signal fires, encrypted fields lock across every device that ever accessed the document. No file recall, no deletion verification, no endpoint agent on the vendor’s side.
Every interaction generates a cryptographic record, which fields, which identity, which device, which time. For HIPAA, ISO 27001, EO 14117, and vendor risk reviews, that’s field-level evidence delivery logs can’t match.
One vendor package, two outcomes. Shared as-is, a breach in their environment hands an attacker everything. Shared with Confidencial, the same file is ciphertext to anyone you didn’t authorize, and every open is logged. Flip between them.
Secure email gateways, file transfer tools, and vendor portals protect the channel. The moment the file arrives at its destination, the protection ends. Confidencial protects what’s inside the file which is the only thing that matters once it’s left your network.
| Scenario | Secure email / MFT | Vendor portal | DRM | Confidencial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vendor downloads file and saves to unmanaged storage | ✕Protects transit only. No visibility or control post-delivery. | ~Controls access to the portal. Can’t control the downloaded copy. | ~Restricts some actions. Requires proprietary viewer; breaks most workflows. | ✓Encryption travels with the file. Sensitive fields remain controlled on any device. |
| Contractor retains files after engagement ends | ✕Delivery is complete. No mechanism to revoke a file already received. | ✕Portal access revoked. Downloaded copy is permanent. | ~Some revocation capability. Depends on viewer enforcement; often bypassable. | ✓Encrypted fields lock instantly on revocation. No viewer required. No endpoint agent. |
| Partner’s environment is breached; attacker accesses shared files | ✕No protection once file is in partner’s environment. | ✕Controls apply to your portal, not files in their systems. | ~Viewer-based controls; attackers bypass with screenshots or viewer exploits. | ✓Sensitive fields stay encrypted. Attacker gets ciphertext, not readable content. |
| Prove file-level access control in regulatory examination | ✕Delivery logs only. Cannot prove what was accessed or by whom. | ~Portal access logs. No document-level chain of custody post-download. | ~Usage logs if viewer is enforced. Incomplete for field-level audit requirements. | ✓Cryptographic audit trail: field-level access by identity, timestamp, and device. |
Secure email secures the channel. Vendor portals control access to the portal. DRM restricts what the viewer can do. None of them protect the data once it’s in someone else’s hands. Confidencial is the only layer that travels with the file.
A zero-day in Progress Software’s MOVEit file-transfer platform. Every organization using MOVEit to exchange files with vendors, agencies, and partners had their transfers exposed not from any misconfiguration, but because the tool itself was the attack surface.
MOVEit secured the transit. Once a transfer was intercepted, the contents were fully readable with no second layer at the data level. Organizations had no visibility into what was taken, no way to revoke access to already-transferred files, and no way to contain the exposure after the fact.
“When the channel fails, everything inside it is readable.”
When the channel fails, everything inside it is readable. With Confidencial, the sensitive fields stay encrypted independently of the transfer mechanism, so when MOVEit fails, the attacker gets ciphertext, the exposure stops at the tool, and not your data.
Clinical data sent to a CDMO. Pricing models shared with a consultant. Client records in a partner’s inbox. Most organizations can’t answer that question. The Data Exposure Assessment maps it in 20 minutes.