November 2023
Intermediate to advanced
53 pages
1h 10m
English
book
Azure Confidential Computing and Zero Trust
by Razi Rais, Jeff Birnbaum, Graham Bury, Vikas Bhatia
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Chapter 4. Road Ahead
In this final chapter, you will learn about Microsoft’s vision for confidential computing, its contributions to the advancement of the community, references to customer and partner case studies, and helpful resources for gaining more in-depth knowledge of Azure confidential computing.
Microsoft’s Vision for Confidential Computing
Trust is an essential factor for organizations to embrace cloud computing, and confidential computing is critical in building the trust, backed up by cryptographic guarantees, that data is always protected from unauthorized access even when it is in use. Microsoft has made it a top priority to provide customers with best-in-class security and privacy capabilities in Azure without sacrificing performance. Microsoft offered a preview of its first confidential computing offering, VMs with application enclaves, in September 2017 to assist customers in securing the confidentiality and integrity of their data and code while it is processed in the Azure cloud.
In 2018, Microsoft released the Open Enclave SDK under the MIT license, aiming for a consistent API surface centered on enclave abstraction, portability between TEE types such as Intel SGX and Arm TrustZone, and architectural freedom. This SDK was eventually incorporated into a CCC project. Microsoft Research has been instrumental not only in developing cutting-edge algorithms that improve confidential computing capabilities on the Microsoft platform but also in sharing them in ...
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