Security News > 2022 > October > Ever considered using Confidential Computing to beef up cloud data protection?
The steady migration of applications and infrastructure out of in-house data centres and server farms and into the cloud looks unstoppable at this moment in time.
The cloud offers all sorts of potential advantages around flexible procurement, resource utilisation, cost and scalability, but it still has work to do on data security.
While cloud service providers do offer rudimentary cyber defences, there can be no guarantee that their customer's sensitive data won't be impacted if their multi-tenanted systems are compromised due to internal disruption or external infiltration.
The European Union General Data Protection Regulation applies to all EU countries and organisations based outside the bloc that deal with the data or citizens residing in those countries, for example.
What happens if those providers' cyber security defences are breached? And how can the organisations which trust them with sensitive data be certain that the information cannot be accessed by anyone else?
So just how many companies out there would benefit from using Confidential Computing to beef up their data protection policies and frameworks?