Preparing for DORA – a new challenge for financial entities

Preparations underway The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), establishes the European Union’s new regulatory framework for the management of digital risks in financial markets. You can get a PDF of the regulation from the EU commission website. It entered into...

Standardising Confidential Computing

Trusted Execution Environments have been around for a while now and keep evolving. As support for confidential computing is included in more commodity platform, standardising this approach is becoming increasingly important to accelerate updake. This is part one of a...

Confidential Quartet: comparing confidential computing platforms

Awesome AI start-up offers a proprietary algorithm for voice recognition. Health-hero hospital collected a large set of patient interviews audio recordings; it needs to transcribe and index them to define a new treatment protocol for an elusive rare condition. They...

Intel SGX vs TDX: what is the difference?

Intel has been a pioneer in Confidential Computing by introducing Software Guard Extensions – better known as SGX – as early as 2013. It continues this trend with the upcoming Trusted Domain Extensions or TDX. But when it comes to Intel SGX vs Intel TDX,...

Security of Confidential Computing in Open Infrastructure

Confidential computingConfidential Computing is a new hardware security mechanism to protect data in-use. It allows processing sensitive workl... More isolates data and code in a secure domain during processing. This secure domain – also called a  Trusted...

Confidential Computing on IBM Protected Execution Facility

This year’s EuroSys conference included papers with significant contributions to the growing field of Confidential Computing. This blog post reviews Confidential Computing on IBM Protected Execution Facility (PEF). It follows the paper Confidential Computing for...