Fortanix, a leader in data and AI security through Confidential Computing, and NTT DATA, a global provider of AI and digital services, have announced a strategic partnership to enable enterprises in India to deploy secure, sovereign, and compliant AI Factories. The joint offering leverages NVIDIA Confidential Computing to protect sensitive data and AI models during processing, ensuring full compliance with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, while accelerating AI innovation.
Indian enterprises are rapidly scaling AI Factories for large-scale training and inference, yet face significant hurdles related to data security, model protection, lawful processing, and regulatory compliance under the DPDP Act. Traditional infrastructure often falls short in safeguarding sensitive data during computation, exposing organizations to risks of leakage, unauthorized access, or non-compliance.
The Fortanix-NTT DATA solution resolves these challenges by running AI workloads inside hardware-based confidential environments powered by NVIDIA Confidential Computing GPUs. Fortanix’s platform provides cryptographic guarantees that data and models stay protected at rest, in transit, and especially in use—shielding against insider threats and privileged access.
“AI Factories represent a major opportunity for Indian enterprises, but trust and compliance must be foundational,” said Sheetal Mehta, Global Head of Cybersecurity Solutions and Services, NTT DATA, Inc. “By combining NTT DATA’s AI and infrastructure security and risk management expertise with Fortanix and NVIDIA confidential computing, we are enabling organizations to innovate with AI while meeting the stringent requirements of the DPDP Act and India’s data sovereignty expectations.”
NTT DATA’s full lifecycle services guide organizations through every stage—from compliance advisory and secure architecture design to seamless integration and ongoing governance. This ensures enterprises can demonstrate verifiable trust, maintain audit trails, and enforce policy-based controls without compromising AI performance or innovation speed.
“At scale, AI adoption depends on trust,” said Anuj Jaiswal, Chief Product Officer, Fortanix. “Our solution, powered by NVIDIA, ensures that sensitive data and AI models remain protected during computation, enabling organizations to unlock the full value of AI while maintaining verifiable security and compliance. NTT DATA’s service brings this capability directly to enterprises in India.”
The partnership delivers a Confidential AI foundation with attestation-based trust, secure key release, and zero-trust enforcement, supporting long-term resilience including post-quantum cryptography readiness.
About Fortanix
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, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, Fortanix enables organizations to safely use sensitive data and drive AI adoption with confidence.
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.
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