What is confidential computing, and why are cloud companies so interested in it?

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https://fortune.com/2020/07/20/confidential-computing-cloud-hackers/

By Jonathan Vanian
Fortune.com
July 20, 2020

Cloud technology companies are betting that businesses worried about being
hacked will adopt a new computing technique to safeguard their most valuable
information.

Google debuted last week a new service for its cloud computing arm that’s built
around a concept known as confidential computing. Google vice president of cloud
security Sunil Potti told reporters during an online media briefing that
confidential computing is a “breakthrough technology that encrypts data while in
use.”

This idea of confidential computing is gaining momentum in the tech industry as
a possible new solution to security woes. Last fall, for example, several tech
companies like Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and VMware joined the Confidential
Computing Consortium (CCC), a new organization that’s part of the influential
business software nonprofit Linux Foundation.

Although many companies use encryption technologies to conceal their data if and
when they suffer a data breach, there are still several ways hackers can access
the information, explained Seth Knox, an outreach chair for the CCC.

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