Fortanix and NTT DATA Partner to Solve Challenges Around Data Sovereignty and Security for AI Factories With NVIDIA

NTT DATA’s service, built on Fortanix and NVIDIA Confidential Computing, helps enterprises comply with data protection requirements while accelerating AI innovation

BENGALURU, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INDIA AI IMPACT SUMMIT 2026—Fortanix, a global leader in data security for an AI world, and NTT DATA, a global leader in AI digital business and technology services, today announced a partnership to help enterprises run secure, sovereign and compliant AI Factories using NVIDIA Confidential Computing.

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.”

This new service is available to enterprises across India as part of NTT DATA's full-stack end-to-end capabilities and business and technology services.

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. For more information, visit www.fortanix.com

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. Visit us at nttdata.com