Intel Editorial: Intel Joins Industry Consortium to Accelerate Confidential Computing
August 21 2019 - 12:10PM
Business Wire
Intel to Contribute Intel SGX SDK to New
Community to Help Simplify Secure Enclave Development and
Deployment
The following is an opinion editorial by Lorie Wigle of Intel
Corporation.
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Lorie Wigle is vice president in the
Architecture, Graphics and Software Group and general manager of
Platform Security Product Management at Intel Corporation. (Credit:
Intel Corporation)
Leaders in information and infrastructure security are well
versed in protecting data at-rest or in-flight through a variety of
methods. However, data being actively processed in memory is
another matter. Whether running on your own servers on-prem, in an
edge deployment, or in the heart of a cloud service provider’s data
center, this “in-use” data is almost always unencrypted and
potentially vulnerable.
Intel’s commitment to helping customers and the ecosystem at
large with data protection is why we and other industry leaders are
coming together to form a new Confidential Computing Consortium
under the Linux Foundation. We’re proud to be a founding member of
this new industry group dedicated to making confidential computing
practices, such as the protection of data in-use, easier to adopt
in today’s multi-cloud world.
Confidential Computing Protects Data In-Use
Confidential computing may take multiple forms, but early use
cases rely on trusted execution environments (TEE), also called
trusted enclaves, where data and operations are isolated and
protected from any other software, including the operating system
and cloud service stack. Combined with encrypted data storage and
transmission methods, TEEs can create an end-to-end protection
architecture for your most sensitive data.
Enterprises and cloud service providers can apply confidential
computing to a wide range of workloads. The most popular of the
early use cases use the trusted enclave for key protection and
crypto-operations. But trusted enclaves can be used to protect any
type of highly sensitive information. For example, healthcare
analytics can be performed so that the enclave protects any data
that may contain personally identifiable information, thus keeping
results anonymous.
Companies that wish to run their applications in the public
cloud but don’t want their most valuable software IP visible to
other software or the cloud provider can run their proprietary
algorithms inside an enclave. Multiple untrusted parties can share
transactions but protect their confidential or proprietary data
from the other parties by using enclaves. Any time sensitive data
is in use, there may be an opportunity to use confidential
computing to better protect it.
Intel SGX – The Hardware Engine Powering Confidential
Computing
The Confidential Computing Consortium is initially focused on
common programming models and enclave portability, but the
Consortium doesn’t prescribe the hardware mechanism necessary for
creating and protecting the enclave. That’s where Intel® Software
Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) comes in.
Intel SGX is a hardware-based technology that helps protect data
in-use by establishing protected enclaves in memory so only
authorized application code can access sensitive data. Unlike full
memory encryption technologies that leave the data within the
attack surface of the OS and cloud stack, Intel SGX allows a
specific application to create its own protected enclave with a
direct interface to the hardware, limiting access and minimizing
the overall performance impact for both the application and any
other virtual machines (VMs) or tenants on the server.
Intel SGX provides hardware-based encryption for data in-use
protection at the application level with the smallest attack
surface. Intel SGX is available today on Intel® Xeon® processor
E-2100 family, and is used in confidential computing services from
Microsoft Azure*, IBM Cloud Data Guard*, Baidu*, Alibaba Cloud* and
Equinix*. Later this year, we will release a PCI-Express add-in
card that will enable Intel SGX in multi-socket Intel Xeon Scalable
servers. And Intel SGX will continue to be rolled out across our
mainstream Xeon platforms in upcoming generations.
As part of today’s announcement of the new Confidential
Computing Consortium, I am pleased to share that we are
contributing the Intel SGX SDK to this new community to help
simplify secure enclave development and deployment.
The launch of the Confidential Computing Consortium is a big
step in bringing this powerful security capability to a broader
audience, and we are committed to working with our ecosystem
customers to ease use and portability of confidential computing for
developers and IT pros. We invite developers to learn about how to
integrate Intel SGX into their applications and cloud services
today, and the future of the consortium at its website.
Lorie Wigle is vice president in the Architecture, Graphics and
Software Group and general manager of Platform Security Product
Management at Intel Corporation.
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