Azure Confidential Computing and Zero Trust

About the Authors

Razi Rais has over two decades of experience designing and developing highly secure and scalable software and services. He currently works at Microsoft, where he has spent over a decade assisting enterprises in enhancing their cybersecurity posture by securing their identities from the most sophisticated cyberattacks and fraud. His area of interest includes privacy-enhancing technologies and the use of artificial intelligence to prevent cyberattacks. Find him on LinkedIn.

Jeff Birnbaum is a 40+ year veteran of the IT industry with roles that have spanned product management, engineer management, sales, and product marketing. He joined Microsoft in 2022 as a Senior Product Marketing Manager in Azure Marketing and has been focused on the Azure confidential computing portfolio. Jeff has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in computer science from Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley, respectively.

Graham Bury has over 18 years of experience at Microsoft across various products including MSN, Windows, Office, Windows Phone Services, Surface Hub, HoloLens and Mixed Reality, and now Azure, where he focuses on protecting data in use in the public cloud with Azure confidential computing. He leads a team of product managers and solution experts to bring confidential computing to serverless and Kubernetes container services, provide developer and deployment tools, as well as enabling E2E solutions with customers and partners including confidential ...