State of Open Con 23

What’s the big deal with Confidential Computing?

Speaker: Mike Bursell, CEO and cofounder

Confidential Computing is the next frontier of data security and market assessments predict it will be a multi-billion dollar industry by 2025. Find out what you need to know in this session.

Encryption is the well-established minimum mechanism when protecting data, and most organizations already use it on a daily basis to protect stored data (“data at rest”) and data on the network (“data in transit”). However, protecting “data in use” while it is being processed is rarely performed because, until now, it has been extremely difficult to do.

In this session, we will introduce attendees to Confidential Computing and how it encrypts “data in use” within a secure hardware environment called a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) by restricting access to the applications running on a host to the CPU only. Attendees will also learn how our team combines the power of open source Enarx technology with our third-party attestation service to achieve encrypted workloads using a vendor, language, and hardware-neutral platform.

The Everest Group claims that Confidential Computing is the next frontier of data security and market assessments predict it will be a multi-billion dollar industry by 2025. All security-minded professionals need to understand what it is and how it works, and what their options are for achieving trusted, encrypted environments for their sensitive data and applications.