2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
Fortanix · Confidential Computing & Data Security Platform
Best Data Security Platform
Overview
Fortanix is the global leader in data and AI security and a pioneer of Confidential Computing, delivering a unified platform to protect sensitive data, AI models, and applications across on-premises and multi-cloud environments—at rest, in transit, and in use. Built on hardware-enforced security, Fortanix enables workloads to run in tamper-proof, isolated enclaves, protecting against data leakage, model extraction, and unauthorized access, even from privileged insiders.
As enterprises scale modern AI factories, Fortanix provides a Confidential AI foundation built on attestation-based trust, secure key release, and zero-trust enforcement. This ensures AI systems remain verifiable, auditable, and trustworthy—while enabling crypto agility and long-term resilience through post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Trusted by leading enterprises and sovereign entities in highly regulated industries and powered by an industry-standard approach to Confidential Computing supported by leading technology providers, including Intel and Microsoft, Fortanix enables organizations to safely use sensitive data and drive AI adoption with confidence.
Key Capabilities
Fortanix secures sensitive data throughout its entire lifecycle, whether it's at rest, in transit or in use, on-premises, in the cloud or across a hybrid multicloud environment. The platform provides enterprise data and AI security, encryption, key management and hardware-rooted trust in one place, rather than requiring organizations to assemble a collection of point solutions. Fortanix's offerings span both solution areas and core platform products:
Solutions
- Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness: Proactive tools to identify quantum-vulnerable cryptographic assets and transition to quantum-safe algorithms before threats materialize.
- Regulatory Compliance: Fortanix simplifies adherence to GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DORA, and more by centralizing encryption key management, enforcing role-based access controls, and maintaining immutable audit logs across hybrid multicloud environments.
- HSM Modernization: Fortanix modernizes legacy HSM infrastructure through a cloud-native platform that enables seamless migration between on-premises and cloud environments with a single, consistent set of cryptographic services, keys, and centralized lifecycle management.
- Protection for AI Models: Fortanix secures AI models and sensitive data across the full AI lifecycle using Confidential Computing and attestation-gated key release, ensuring models, data, and secrets remain protected from ingestion and training through inference and runtime.
Core Products
- Confidential AI: A secure AI product that is ready to go and lets organizations deploy their proprietary data or pipelines into custom AI models and workflows. Fortanix Data Security Platform offers a full AI lifecycle solution from ingestion, training, inference to runtime in hardware-verified confidential computing environments to solve real risks such as data leakage, model poisoning, prompt injection, and access to regulated data.
- Data Security Manager (DSM): Enables enterprise-grade encryption, key management, tokenization and secrets management. DSM centralizes and automates cryptographic operations across clouds and data centers, including BYOK, AWS XKS, Google EKM, transparent database encryption and more.
- Key Insight: Cryptographic security posture management that provides organizations with complete visibility into encryption keys and data services across their environment to identify quantum-vulnerable keys and prioritize remediation.
- Confidential Computing Manager: Manages secure enclaves to safeguard data in use, allowing for confidential analytics, isolated workload execution and secure multi-party collaboration.
How we are different
Fortanix's approach to data security is fundamentally different because it is built around securing the data itself, not just the perimeter around it. Modern enterprises operate across clouds, AI pipelines, SaaS applications and distributed infrastructure where sensitive data is constantly moving, being processed and shared. In that environment, the challenge is no longer simply preventing access, but continuously controlling exposure, usage and trust across the entire data lifecycle.
Three things differentiate Fortanix.
- First, Fortanix addresses one of the biggest blind spots in enterprise security: protecting data while it is actively in use. Through confidential computing and hardware-backed runtime protection, Fortanix secures sensitive workloads, AI models and regulated data even during processing, not just when data is stored or transmitted.
- Second, Fortanix brings together capabilities that are typically fragmented across multiple vendors, including AI security, encryption, key management, confidential computing and cryptographic posture management. This unified approach gives security, infrastructure and AI teams centralized visibility and policy control across hybrid and multicloud environments while reducing operational complexity.
- Third, Fortanix is designed for long-term cryptographic resilience. Its cryptographic agility and post-quantum readiness capabilities help organizations discover vulnerable cryptographic assets, modernize encryption strategies and prepare for the transition to quantum-safe security without disrupting existing operations.
Founded in 2016 by early leaders in Confidential Computing, Fortanix works with businesses in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, government and AI modeling. These organizations use the platform to maintain data sovereignty compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DORA, protect Model IP and data for secure AI inference and more. This lets them adopt AI without losing trust.
Gallery
No gallery images yet.