IBM: Confidential Computing Dispels Cloud Mistrust

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12.04.2021
The global pandemic has forced businesses to move massive amounts of data and workloads to the cloud, but privacy and security concerns remain. Confidential Computing is addressing the mistrust of cloud security, but not all solutions are created equal, writes IBM Distinguished Engineer Stefan Leicher for Information Age.

Moving data to the cloud offers a range of proven storage and access benefits, so it’s no surprise that businesses of all sizes have developed and adopted cloud strategies in response to the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. These measures, including increased remote working, have resulted in an unprecedented increase in the volume of digital data that needs to be stored, transmitted and processed, securely and reliably.

For many businesses, the question is no longer bahrain whatsapp data to migrate to the cloud—according to a recent IBM Institute for Business Value study, 74% of CEOs believe that cloud adoption will be critical to their business in the next two to three years. The question is how to optimize mission-critical workloads while maintaining the highest levels of security.

At the heart of this challenge is the growing understanding that cloud security can come in different forms, which is why businesses are starting to look at the latest security innovations, such as confidential computing.

Protecting potentially sensitive data
In a typical cloud configuration, data is encrypted when it is “at rest” or “in transit,” but when the data is processed, it is decrypted, leaving it potentially vulnerable. Since the start of the pandemic, the volume of business-critical data being moved to the cloud has increased, heightening concerns about its potential vulnerability.