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Confidential Computing is a leading-edge security technology that encrypts sensitive data in use in a public cloud, private cloud or on-premises. It completes the data security triangle since data at rest (in storage) and in transit (across networks)...

Confidential Computing is charting new territory in the digital world by chaining attestation and authentication, something which has been known to the legal system for centuries. At Profian, we are familiar with the concept of authentication. We do...

Recently, someone asked me about the relationship between Confidential Computing and Zero Trust at the Supercomputing conference in Dallas. In the past, the protection of enterprise assets was perimeter based. Users and data were inside and trusted, bad...

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...

If you are keeping up with the latest technology in cloud computing-related security, you have probably seen that several Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) have announced “confidential VMs” as part of their Confidential Computing offering. So, what exactly is...

For those who have been following our journey, you already know that Profian’s roots are as fedora-wearing and open-source-loving as they come. Our co-founders, Mike Bursell, CEO, and Nathaniel McCallum, CTO, are former Red Hat associates. Enarx, the open...

If you’re interested in Confidential Computing to encrypt data and applications in use, then you must be interested in attestation, because, without it, you’re not doing Confidential Computing right. Specifically, without attestation, you really don’t have the documented...

War, inflation, layoffs – if we let it, reading the news can often consume us and drag us down. For a change of perspective, we at Profian thought it would be timely to counter the negative headlines by...

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...