{"id":52577,"date":"2023-06-30T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3701509\/vmware-picks-up-partners-for-open-source-confidential-computing-development.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-06-30T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:44:00","slug":"vmware-picks-up-partners-for-open-source-confidential-computing-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/vmware-picks-up-partners-for-open-source-confidential-computing-development\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware picks up partners for open-source confidential computing development"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Virtualization technology provider VMware has announced that it is partnering with AMD, Samsung, and members of the RISC-V keystone community for the development and operations of confidential computing applications.<\/p>\n

RISC-V is a hardware standards organization that is designing low-power processors; the Keystone Enclave <\/a>is an open source project for building customizable trusted execution environments (TEEs).<\/p>\n

The aim of the new partnership among VMware, AMD, Samsung and RISC-V participants is to collaborate to contribute to the open-source Certifier Framework project for confidential computing. The Certifier Framework is an open-source project started by VMware in 2022 to tackle the key barriers in the development of confidential computing applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe collective efforts of the growing ecosystem of contributors to Certifier Framework will help bring those benefits to independent software vendor (ISVs), enterprise customers, and sovereign cloud providers, enabling them to use the technology more easily and effectively,\u201d said Kit Colbert, CTO at VMware.<\/p>\n

Confidential Computing protects data in use<\/h2>\n

Confidential computing is a new discipline that aims to protect data while in use, or in memory, as opposed to conventionally encrypting it when it is “at rest” (not being processed, while in storage or in transit) in a network of multicloud environments.<\/p>\n

Confidential computing<\/a> is designed to ensure the security of data during processing by utilizing a hardware-based TEE that is verified. These trusted and isolated environments are meant to effectively safeguard applications and data against unauthorized access or tampering, providing organizations that handle sensitive or regulated data with enhanced security guarantees.<\/p>\n