Confidential computing archives
28 posts
Meet Canonical at Intel® Innovation 2023
By Felicia Jia, 8 September 2023
Intel® Innovation, one of Intel®’s flagship developer events, continues to span the worlds of architecture innovation, software tools and technology &...
TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu
By ijlal-loutfi, 7 September 2023
Discover Ubuntu’s latest security enhancement: TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption (FDE). This experimental feature in Ubuntu 23.10 offers improved data...
Why do you also need confidential computing for your private datacenter?
By ijlal-loutfi, 24 July 2023
Confidential computing is not limited to public cloud environments; it also has significant value in private data centers. While private data centers offer...
Start your SEV VMs on Google Cloud
By Hugo Huang, 21 July 2023
SEV is a new security feature that is available on AMD’s EPYC processors. It stands for Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Pages. SEV provides a...
Why you need to protect your confidential virtual machine from itself
By ijlal-loutfi, 11 July 2023
Confidential computing disrupts the traditional threat model by decoupling resource management from data access. It introduces new CPU security extensions...
The founding moments: Tracing the origins of confidential computing
By ijlal-loutfi, 29 June 2023
In Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises,” there is a memorable exchange between the author and the main character, Mike. When asked how he went...
Try Ubuntu confidential VMs with Intel TDX today: limited preview now available on Azure
By ijlal-loutfi, 25 April 2023
On behalf of the Canonical confidential computing team, I am happy to announce the limited preview of Ubuntu Confidential VMs with Intel TDX on Microsoft...
Phoenix Systems sets a new standard for secure cloud services with Canonical and IBM
By Felipe Vanni, 12 April 2023
Phoenix Systems, a Swiss company, partnered with IBM and Canonical to create a hyper-secure OpenStack cloud focused on data sovereignty and data protection....
Build the foundation for your zero trust strategy with Ubuntu confidential computing
By ijlal-loutfi, 7 April 2023
Why do we want to eliminate trust? Isn’t trust a good thing that we should foster and grow? And shouldn’t computing platforms trust their end-users, and vice...
Canonical joins the confidential computing consortium
By ijlal-loutfi, 21 March 2023
We are happy to announce we have joined the confidential computing consortium, a project community at the Linux Foundation that is focused on accelerating...
Linux security: your questions, answered
By ijlal-loutfi, 22 February 2023
At Canonical, we often get questions about open-source security and of course, Linux security is a common topic. Based on a recent webinar hosted by our...