All posts by Mike Bursell

There’s been a flurry of articles over the past few weeks (here and here) about WebAssembly (often shortened to Wasm) and its future in cloud Computing. This may come as something of a surprise to those who know...

Hint: Be wary about policies in a vacuum “We need a policy on that.” This is a phrase that seems to act as a universal panacea to too many managers. When a problem is identified, and the blame...

Whether you are looking to get started or are already well down the path of an IT security career, continuous learning should be top-of-mind to keep your skills fresh and your confidence high. The good news is that...

New! Pre-complied example applications In a previous article, Confidential Computing: try it now, for free, we introduced our self-service demo site, try.enarx.dev.  You can find out more about what the service offers and why we think it’s so...

Go to try.enarx.dev Since we were founded in June 2021, we at Profian have been working to bring Confidential Computing to the market in a new way. We believe it should be simple and quick to deploy applications...

Over at Enarx, we’re preparing for another release. They’re coming every four weeks now, and we’re getting into a good rhythm. Thanks to all contributors, and also those working on streamlining the release process. It’s a complex project...

A couple of months ago, we were struggling to recruit.  For any tech start-up, getting the right development team on board is vital, and finding those people was hard.  We had some good external help, some good internal...

Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud delivers an insightful and practical new take on what it means to trust in the context of computer and network security and the impact on the emerging field of Confidential Computing....

Hi, my name is Mike Bursell. I’m the CEO and co-founder of Enarx and Profian. Profian is a company based in the U.S., but I’m based in the U.K., near Cambridge. We currently have 8 people across 7...

Log entries and other error messages can be very useful, but they can also provide information to other parties – sometimes information which you’d prefer they didn’t have. This is particularly true when you are thinking about Confidential...