Security News > 2021 > April > The next big thing in cloud computing? Shh… It’s confidential

Unlike the traditional layered security approaches that place barriers between data and bad actors or standalone encryption for storage or communication, the confidential cloud delivers strong data protection that is inseparable from the data itself.

Implementing a confidential cloud eliminates the potential for cloud insiders to have exposure to data, closing the data attack surface that is otherwise left exposed at the cloud provider.

Azure confidential computing has partnered with confidential cloud vendors to enable the secure formation and execution of any workload over existing infrastructure without any modification of the underlying application.

Confidential cloud software allows applications and even whole environments to work within a confidential cloud formation with no modification.

Added layers of software abstraction and virtualization have the advantage of making the confidential cloud itself agnostic to the numerous proprietary enclave technologies and versions developed by Intel, AMD, Amazon, and ARM. A new generation of security vendors has simplified the process to implement private test and demo environments for prospective customers of the public cloud.

Confidential computing is good, but confidential cloud is better.

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