Critical infrastructure providers and enterprises, who are building national AI capability, face a hard constraint: they cannot cede control of citizen data or AI IP to foreign providers, jurisdictions, or administrators, yet few nations can afford to build and operate their own AI infrastructure outright. Staying competitive often means running frontier models on a foreign provider's cloud, but running sensitive AI workloads on shared or foreign-operated infrastructure with traditional architecture gives administrators complete visibility into data during processing. For sovereign AI initiatives, that exposure isn't just a security gap; it's a breach of sovereignty itself. The reverse is also true: as nations look to deploy frontier AI within geo boundaries, they run into the hesitation of AI labs that don't want their own model weights sitting unencrypted in memory during training and inference, vulnerable to extraction. Sovereignty and innovation have historically pulled in opposite directions, but falling behind on AI adoption isn't an option — economically or for national security. The way forward is Confidential AI that runs on Confidential Computing infrastructure that protects data and AI models while in use.
Sovereign AI, Without Compromise
Fortanix Confidential AI ensures sovereign AI wherever your AI runs. Whether your workloads run within your borders or you need to tap into best-in-class performance and economics elsewhere, Fortanix gives you verified, cryptographic control over your AI by keeping citizen and national sensitive data protected on trusted, attested infrastructure, with no third-party access and no compromise on sovereignty. Think of it as a digital embassy for AI: your data and models stay off-limits to everyone, but you, backed by hardware-enforced Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) rather than policy promises. With Fortanix Confidential AI, national AI offices, sovereign cloud operators, telecommunications providers building AI infrastructure, and public-sector or defense agencies can deploy frontier AI on their own terms by keeping data, models, and infrastructure under their control and jurisdiction.

Benefits
Enable Safe AI
Let innovation thrive with cryptographic guarantee that no foreign entity or third party can access, influence, or interrupt your AI workloads.
Protect Citizens' Data
Ensure sensitive citizen data processed by AI workloads never leaves jurisdictional boundaries and remains compliant with local data protection laws.
Stay Compliance-Ready
Keep complete visibility and command over every AI workload, from deployment to inference, and meet sovereignty and data protection mandates with auditable proof.
How Fortanix Confidential AI Works
Fortanix Confidential AI cryptographically verifies every remote Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to confirm that hardware isolation and the exact code are genuine and untampered with, thus ensuring AI workload protection based on cryptographic proof, not trust.
1. Secure Enclave Management
Fortanix Confidential Computing Manager (CCM) creates, manages, and enforces policy controls to run the AI workloads in hardware-isolated enclaves, isolated from the OS, hypervisor, and administrators. CCM currently supports composite attestation for:
- Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP CPU
- NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper Confidential Computing GPUs
2. Secure Key Release
Encryption keys are released only to verified, attested enclaves. Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM), a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 HSM with built-in Key Management, enforces strict key custody so citizen data and models stay encrypted in memory, inaccessible to anyone outside the TEE.



