Alliance founding members also include Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Swisscom and technology companies such as Tencent, which provides an opportunity to allow the industry to come together to promote the use of computing to better protect confidential data.
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Establish secret alliance computing needs stems from this fact: As computing transition from on-premise to public clouds and edge data protection becomes more complicated. Current data protection usually applied static data (stored) or a (network) transmission state. But when data is being used, there remains a risk, which is a step challenging data protection the most.
Therefore, the calculation will focus on the protection of confidential data in use, and provides full life cycle of encryption for sensitive data. It will process the encrypted data in memory and will not be exposed to the rest of the system, and to reduce exposure of sensitive data, to provide users with greater control and transparency.
"Data protection in use means that the data will not be displayed in unencrypted form in the calculation process, except authorized to access data", Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure, chief technology officer, said, "That is not even a public cloud service providers or edge equipment suppliers may be unable to access it, the data will be entirely in private state. "
Confidential calculation functions Collaboration can be done to share data - such as multi-party training dataset machine learning models, multi-analysis performed on the data set, or enable confidential query processing in the database engine - but at the same time without the need for direct access to these data.
Microsoft announced its membership secret Computing Group, BAT with Google and other giants join forces to protect confidential data secure computing Microsoft announced it has joined the league, and BAT with Google and other giants join forces to protect data security
Currently, the coalition members have made some contributions to the open source confidential calculations, including:
Intel ® Software protection extension (Intel ®SGX) software development kit, designed to help developers use the protected code and data, prevents data from being leaked or modified at the hardware level.
Microsoft Open Enclave SDK, open source framework to create a universal method that can be inserted to create a trusted applications can be re-issued to protect the data being used.
Red Hat Enarx, trusted execution environment (TEE) provides a platform abstraction supports the creation and operation of "private, alternative, non-server" applications.
Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin said that the existing coalition is just the beginning, there will be more companies to join the follow-up.
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