The IT Pro Podcast: The secrets of confidential computing
We’ve heard a lot about cloud computing, edge computing and various other kinds of computing, but confidential computing is less well known. As an emerging encryption model, it promises to offer greater protection to data as it’s being used, supplementing at-rest and in-transit encryption. Protecting against attacks like memory dumps and malicious root user compromise, the development of confident
ial computing is being spearheaded by the Confidential Computing Consortium, an open-source industry group working to address the problem. In this week’s episode, we talk to Dr Richard Searle, senior security architect at Fortanix and general member’s representative to the governing board of the consortium, about what the technology aims to do. In this week’s news, we discuss Apple’s decision to make its own Mac chips and other announcements from its annual WWDC conference, HPE’s new software portfolio, and the case of a disgruntled ex-director who deleted all the files in her former employers’ Dropbox account. Footnotes News Apple abandons Intel in favour of custom ARM-based Mac CPUsWWDC 2020: Apple unveils macOS Big Sur, iOS 14 and more HPE launches Ezmeral software portfolio – but is it just SBS in disguise? Businesswoman sentenced for illegally deleting company files
In-depth The future of encryptionTech giants assemble to tackle cloud and data security What are Meltdown and Spectre and are you affected? A complete guide to data encryption What is AES encryption? Cloud storage: How secure are Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and iCloud?
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Date: 2020-06-25
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