Confidencial vs IronCore Labs SaaS Shield

Confidencial protects sensitive information at field, paragraph, or cell level while keeping controls attached to the data. Selective encryption can leave ordinary document content readable while protecting designated fields. Discover scans environments and classifies sensitive fields across more than 40 file types. Shield applies policy-based encryption, tokenization, redaction, deletion, or archiving. AI Guard protects retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, and long-context workflows through sensitive-field tokenization and output filtering. Exchange handles sending, requesting, and signing protected files with access policies, activity tracking, and revocation. Transfers support up to 1 TB per send and more than 40 file types; external recipients can use a limited portal without accounts or installation at no cost. Deployment may be hosted, hybrid, or self-hosted, including cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. Keys remain in the customer’s key-management service, including AWS KMS and Azure Key Vault.

IronCore Labs SaaS Shield adds application-layer encryption, data controls, and access visibility to cloud applications, including multi-tenant SaaS products. It uses a separate encryption key for each tenant to help protect data held in shared storage, and deterministic encryption enables exact-match searches over encrypted data. Customers can retain control of their keys, with support for customer-managed configurations and integrations with Thales CipherTrust Manager, Google Cloud Key Management Service, AWS Key Management Service, and Microsoft Azure Key Vault. The Tenant Security Proxy runs as a Docker container in customer infrastructure, and encryption can be connected through proxies or SDKs. Listed storage and search proxies cover Amazon S3, OpenSearch, and Elasticsearch. SaaS Shield supports rotation and re-keying of keys, changes to algorithms and key sizes, and separating key storage from data across cloud providers. The maker describes a design that keeps sensitive data and keys from its view. A free trial covers one tenant; Pro starts at $1,954/mo (annual) plus $25 per tenant for up to 100 tenants. There is no free plan.