NTT DATA’s service, built on Fortanix and NVIDIA Confidential Computing, helps enterprises comply with data protection requirements while accelerating AI innovation
Fortanix, a global leader in data security for an AI world, and NTT DATA, a global leader in AI digital business and technology services, announced a partnership to help enterprises run secure, sovereign and compliant AI Factories using NVIDIA Confidential Computing.
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Built on Fortanix® and NTT DATA’s full lifecycle managed services, the offering allows organizations to secure advanced AI workloads and AI Factories, while ensuring verifiable trust and data sovereignty compliance with NVIDIA Confidential Computing and attestation services.
As Indian enterprises accelerate the adoption of AI Factories to support large-scale AI training and inference, concerns around model and data security, lawful processing and regulatory compliance have emerged as critical barriers. The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, India’s primary data protection law, imposes strict obligations on how personal and sensitive data is collected, processed and protected, making traditional AI infrastructure approaches insufficient for regulated environments.
Fortanix and NTT DATA address these challenges by enabling AI workloads to operate on sensitive and regulated data within hardware-based secure environments. Leveraging NVIDIA Confidential Computing GPUs and Fortanix’s data security platform, the solution ensures data and AI models remain protected not only at rest and in transit, but also while in use, providing enterprises with cryptographic assurance that data cannot be accessed or tampered with, even by privileged system operators.
NTT DATA’s full lifecycle managed services help organizations with DPDP compliance advisory and architecture design, end-to-end integration of the Fortanix and NVIDIA solution and AI governance, risk and compliance management services.
“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.”
The service is designed for enterprises operating in highly regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing and the public sector, where data sensitivity and compliance are paramount. Key capabilities include secure processing of personal and sensitive data, protection of proprietary AI models and intellectual property, and policy-based controls that help organizations demonstrate compliance and auditability.
“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.”
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