Michael Bird

Very interesting.

A way to keep your data secure from threats, both external and internal.

Well, today we'll be hearing from Dr. Nigel Edwards, director of the Security Lab at HPE Labs.

And as this is a new concept, the first thing I asked Nigel to do was to explain what exactly confidential computing is and what makes it distinct from regular styles of computing.

So traditional encryption methods already exist and they've served us pretty well.

What problem is this solving?

Right.

So what you're saying is that if either there was a malicious actor within your organization or if that person's login details were somehow compromised, then somebody could then access that data, even though you think it's secure, because it's sort of sat within your organization.

So are we saying that this would be used across a whole organisation's infrastructure?

So do you have any examples of where, if the principles around confidential computing were in place, actually a malicious attack wouldn't have happened?

And so he had access to information that he maybe shouldn't have had access to.

Okay.

I'd love to talk about the inception of confidential computing.

Where did the idea originally come from?

What's been the influence of HP Labs?

And we've continued to work on confidential computing protocols over the years.

That's continued to evolve.

So why are we talking about confidential computing now?

Have there been technical advancements that have meant that this is now a significantly more viable technology to implement within our organizations?

So what are the current limits of confidential computing?