Agentic AI security steals the spotlight at Confidential Computing Summit (opens in new tab)

For a decade, confidential computing has been chipping away at one of security’s hardest problems: data is well encrypted in transit and at rest, but when a processor works on it, that data sits in memory in the clear, exposed to anyone with privileged host access. “Confidential computing’s aim was to solve this with a trusted execution environment, a subset of the CPU that runs the encrypted workload and handles things like memory encryption,” said , lead security researcher at For years the...