OPAQUE's Industry First Confidential AI Platform Debuts on Azure Marketplace, Accelerating Agentic Workflows for Sensitive Data

End-to-end platform enables organizations to deploy advanced analytics, ML, and autonomous AI agents without sacrificing data privacy or compliance.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- OPAQUE Systems, the industry's first Confidential AI platform, today announced the availability of its secure AI solution on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. By integrating confidential computing with popular data and AI tools, OPAQUE lets enterprises process sensitive data fully encrypted, from ingestion to inference, without costly code rewrites or specialized cryptographic skills.

As AI use cases become more sophisticated, particularly due to the rise in agentic AI workflows generating autonomous actions, enterprises are increasingly demanding cryptographically verifiable security and privacy. OPAQUE is the only platform that meets these needs in three critical phases:

1. Before Execution (Attestation): OPAQUE verifies each AI workflow and Agent with cryptographic attestations, ensuring only authorized code can run.
2. During Execution (Real-time Policy Enforcement): End-to-end data protection with runtime encryption, enforcing data-access policies at the source and blocking any unauthorized or out-of-scope queries in real-time.
3. After Execution (Immutable Auditing): Leveraging a hardware-backed trusted execution environment, OPAQUE generates tamper-proof logs of all AI actions, simplifying compliance with regulations like GDPR and HIPAA.

"Microsoft's dedication to confidential computing is about providing our customers with the highest levels of data protection," said Mark Russinovich, CTO, Deputy CISO, and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure. "By supporting innovative solutions like OPAQUE's Confidential AI Platform through our Pegasus Partner Program and the Azure Marketplace, we're empowering enterprises to accelerate their AI initiatives while upholding stringent security and compliance standards."

"Data sovereignty is top-of-mind for enterprises adopting advanced AI features," said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of OPAQUE Systems. "By listing on Azure Marketplace, OPAQUE makes it easy for customers to add confidential AI to your agentic workflows at cloud scale—while leveraging their existing Azure spend commitments."

Why OPAQUE Matters for the Enterprise

Most confidential computing solutions focus on encrypting data in use and verifying the basic infrastructure, such as applications running in Confidential Virtual Machines. However, OPAQUE goes significantly further by enforcing privacy, security, and compliance policies from data ingestion to inference. OPAQUE capabilities provide comprehensive coverage, which means customers safely deploy classic analytics/ML and advanced AI agents on their most valuable, confidential data, without compromising on sovereignty or compliance. By keeping sensitive information encrypted even during analysis and inference, organizations gain cryptographically verifiable privacy, protection against unapproved agents or code execution, and auditable proof of compliance at every step. This robust coverage frees enterprises to innovate at scale by using its differentiated, proprietary data while minimizing regulatory risk on a single platform.

Designed for Real-World Enterprise AI

• Built for Regulated & Sensitive Data: Preserve data fidelity and meet governance demands without manual anonymization or masking.
• Seamless Integration: Supports languages like Python and frameworks like Spark, Ray, and LangChain—no refactoring required.
• Frictionless Procurement: Purchasing via Microsoft Azure Marketplace streamlines deployment and can qualify for Microsoft Azure Cloud Credit.

"OPAQUE's streamlined Azure Marketplace deployment allows enterprises to quickly and securely launch within their own Azure environment—enabling hands-off deployment into trusted, secure infrastructure," said Jiana Huang, Engineering Manager at OPAQUE Systems. "Sensitive data remains encrypted and fully under their control, simplifying the path to scalable, confidential AI."

Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program

OPAQUE Systems participates in the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program, an exclusive initiative offering hands-on support, technical resources, and go-to-market collaboration for high-potential Independent Software Vendors. This partnership fortifies OPAQUE's commitment to providing best-in-class, confidential AI solutions, particularly to enterprises looking to accelerate AI adoption without compromising on data sovereignty or compliance.

About OPAQUE Systems

Rooted in groundbreaking research from UC Berkeley's RISELab, OPAQUE Systems delivers a Confidential AI platform that transforms how enterprises handle, analyze, and share sensitive data. By uniting a trusted execution environment, cryptographic verification, and high-performance analytics/ML and AI, OPAQUE empowers organizations to run cloud-scale AI workloads with full confidence in data privacy and IP protection. To learn more, visit opaque.co or request a demo to see Confidential AI in action.

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