Provides customers and partners a security
foundation for confidential computing, secure and responsible AI,
and quantum-resistant crypto into the quantum era.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- A new Intel service (code-named Project Amber) provides
organizations with remote verification of trustworthiness in cloud,
edge and on-premises environments.
- Intel accelerates responsible and secure AI deployments in
collaboration with BeeKeeperAI and University of Pennsylvania’s
Perelman School of Medicine.
- Company details strategy for quantum-resistant cryptography by
2030 that starts with the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable
platform.
Today, during Day 2 of its inaugural Intel Vision event, Intel
turned its focus to how it will meet the growing security needs of
organizations today and help them prepare for the challenges of
tomorrow. Focusing on one of the most critical security elements
for any organization – trust – Intel introduced an independent
trust authority in the form of an innovative service-based security
implementation code-named Project Amber. The company also
demonstrated its focus on enabling secure and responsible AI, and
outlined its strategy to further build quantum-resistant
cryptography for the coming quantum computing era.
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At its inaugural Intel Vision event on
May 10-11, 2022, Intel announced advancements across silicon,
software and services, showcasing how it brings together
technologies and the ecosystem to unlock business value for
customers today and in the future. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
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“As organizations continue to capitalize on the value of the
cloud, security has never been more top of mind. Trust goes hand in
hand with security, and it is what our customers expect and require
when delivering on Intel technology,” said Greg Lavender, chief
technology officer, senior vice president and general manager of
the Software and Advanced Technology Group at Intel. “With the
introduction of Project Amber, Intel is taking confidential
computing to the next level in our commitment to a zero-trust
approach to attestation and the verification of compute assets at
the network, edge and in the cloud.”
Trust Assurance for the Hybrid Workforce
Businesses operate in and depend on the cloud to support remote
workforces that require multiple devices, uninterrupted access and
collaboration tools. Technology solutions need to secure data not
only in memory and in transit, but also in use – protecting
valuable assets and minimizing attack surfaces. Project Amber
provides organizations with remote verification of the
trustworthiness of a compute asset in cloud, edge and on-premises
environments. This service operates independent of the
infrastructure provider hosting the confidential compute
workloads.
Confidential computing, the protection of data in use by
performing computation in a hardware-based trusted execution
environment (TEE), is a growing market. Intel® Software Guard
Extensions (Intel® SGX) available on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable
platform is one of the main technologies powering confidential
computing today, enabling cloud-use cases that are beneficial for
organizations that handle sensitive data on a regular basis.
The foundational basis of trust in a confidential computing
environment is established via a process called attestation. The
verification of this trustworthiness is a critical requirement for
customers to protect their data and intellectual property as they
move sensitive workloads to the cloud. To raise trust assurance and
drive forward the promise of confidential computing for the broader
industry, Intel announced Project Amber as the first step in
creating a new multi-cloud, multi-TEE service for third-party
attestation:
- Designed to be cloud-agnostic, this service will support
confidential computing workloads in the public cloud, within
private/hybrid cloud and at the edge. Interposing a third party to
provide attestation helps provide objectivity and independence to
enhance confidential computing assurance to users.
- In its first version, Project Amber intends to support
confidential compute workloads deployed as bare metal containers,
virtual machines (VMs) and containers running in virtual machines
using Intel TEEs. The initial release will support Intel TEEs, with
plans to extend coverage to platforms, devices and other TEEs in
the future.
- Intel is also working with independent software vendors (ISVs)
to enable trust services that include Project Amber. New software
tools, such as published APIs that enable ISVs to incorporate
Project Amber to augment software and services, will complement
Intel’s platforms and technologies, and bring more value to
customers and partners.
Intel plans to launch a customer pilot of Project Amber in the
second half of 2022, followed by general availability in the first
half of 2023.
Paving the Way for Secure and Responsible AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) propels technology even further,
enabling insights and automation to handle greater scale. With this
proliferation of sensitive information, the threat landscape grows,
as do the surrounding security concerns. That’s why Intel is
committed to developing artificial intelligence that is secure and
responsible. Highlighting the criticality of AI outcomes being used
as a force for good, Intel emphasized the key question
technologists should ask before they decide to continue pursuing
development: Does the technology contribute to improving our
society?
Maintaining data integrity, accuracy and privacy is at the heart
of Intel’s industry-leading research efforts. Intel demonstrated
how it is accelerating AI deployments in ways that are responsible
and secure to help customers and partners solve complex
problems:
- BeeKeeperAI uses Intel SGX hardware-based security capabilities
and Microsoft Azure’s confidential computing infrastructure to
provide a zero-trust platform. It enables an AI algorithm to
compute against multiple real-world clinical datasets without
compromising the privacy of the data or the intellectual property
of the algorithm model. This is accelerating healthcare AI
development and deployment innovation by more than 30% to 40% when
compared to the current method.
- Intel’s research partnership with the University of
Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine’s Federated Tumor
Segmentation, or FeTS initiative, uses a set of Intel hardware and
open-source software technologies to improve the training of AI
models to locate brain tumors. Intel technology helps ensure each
institution can participate in improving the fidelity and quality
of the inferencing algorithms by using Open Federated Learning
(OpenFL). OpenFL enabled 55 institutions across six continents to
collaborate while preserving the security and privacy of their
individual datasets. The result is an AI model that improves
efforts to locate tumors by 33%.
The responsible use of AI also serves as an example of how the
industry can come together and pave the path for deployment across
verticals that include healthcare, financial services,
manufacturing, retail and entertainment, among others.
Quantum-Resistant Cryptography for a Secure Quantum Computing
Future
As quantum technology continues to develop, post-quantum experts
anticipate a moment in the next 10 to 15 years when, as an
industry, it will reach a similar situation as the “millennium
bug.” Many call it “Y2Q.”
Quantum computing impacts both symmetric and public key
cryptography, and will require the entire ecosystem to bring
ingenuity and collaboration to find solutions. To be Y2Q-ready or
quantum-resistant by 2030, the time to act is now. Intel is
developing a rich cryptography technology pipeline to lead the
industry with innovations that are quantum-resistant, including the
built-in crypto acceleration in the 3rd Generation Intel Xeon
Scalable platform that provides next-generation security without
sacrificing performance.
Intel is working proactively to address threats posed by quantum
computers. The company developed crypto guidelines for Intel
products, actively contributed to post-quantum crypto
standardization efforts and is evaluating the new families of
crypto algorithms being considered for standardization by the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Intel has adopted a phased approach to address threats posed by
quantum computing:
- Address the problem of data harvesting by increasing key and
digest sizes for symmetric crypto algorithms.
- Increase robustness of code signing applications such as
authentication of firmware and software with quantum-resistant
algorithms. This helps guard against attacks that break classical
crypto to run malicious code.
- Secure the internet with post-quantum crypto algorithms
standardized by NIST. This includes key encapsulation and digital
signature algorithms fundamental to securing transactions over the
web.
Security technologies must accommodate not just the needs of
today, but those of tomorrow. Intel’s breadth and depth of hardware
and software technologies enable customers to derive additional
value from their existing platforms.
About Intel
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating
world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches
lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the
design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our
customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the
cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash
the potential of data to transform business and society for the
better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to
newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
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