How confidential computing can strengthen the cybersecurity sector

guest · Jun 21, 2021

How confidential computing can strengthen the cybersecurity sector
Intel’s Paul O’Neill spoke to Siliconrepublic.com about confidential computing and how it can tackle some of the biggest challenges in cybersecurity.
June 21, 2021
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/confidential-computing-intel-cybersecurity

While data can be encrypted while stored and sent to keep it safe, what about when it’s being actively processed?

In order to add an extra layer of security, a new frontier is emerging called confidential computing.

“Confidential computing using hardware-based trusted execution environments makes it easier or lowers the risk of exposing it to the rest of the system during that decryption method, thereby reducing the potential for sensitive data to be exposed while providing a higher degree of control and transparency for users,” said Paul O’Neill, who works in Intel’s confidential computing group.
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Because confidential computing essentially allows data to be processed in memory while that data is still encrypted, reducing its exposure. This also means that the data is hidden from third-party processors such as cloud providers.

“What this means is that computations running inside these enclaves are protected against threats like software attacks.”
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guest · Oct 28, 2021

Linux Foundation: Confidential computing market to reach $54 billion in 2026
October 27, 2021
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux...computing-market-to-reach-54-billion-in-2026/

The confidential computing market is expected to reach $54 billion by 2026, according to a new market study from the Linux Foundation and the Confidential Computing Consortium.

Conducted by Everest Group, the study claims the confidential computing market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 90%-95% in the best-case scenario, and 40% - 45% even in the worst-case scenario until 2026. The researchers used proprietary datasets, consultations with key market stakeholders and contributions from the members of the Confidential Computing Consortium to compile the study.
Accenture, ANT Group, Arm, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat are all members of the Confidential Computing Consortium.
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Abhishek Mundra, practice director at Everest Research, said that while the adoption of Confidential Computing is in the relatively nascent stage, the organization's research "reveals growth potential not only for enterprises consuming it, but also for the technology and service providers enabling it."

David Greene, head of the CCC's outreach committee and chief revenue officer of Fortanix, said the strongest demand for confidential computing seems to come from banking, financial services, and healthcare, all of which have huge quantities of very confidential information and a real need to safely use that data.

"We continue to see data breaches resulting from gaps in infrastructure security. It's very hard to protect infrastructure -- there are just too many points of vulnerability. Confidential Computing takes a different approach by focusing on protecting the data, even when it is in use. This just is not possible using any other technology."
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Everest Group: Confidential Computing: The Next Frontier in Data Security
https://confidentialcomputing.io/white-papers-reports/

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