Confidential Computing – Towards a new contract of data sharing

Speaker: Kapil Vaswani

Abstract

In a data-driven world, we have been co-opted into a contract where we pay for online services using our digital footprint. This contract places a lot of trust in the services providers, who often hide behind the fine print of privacy statements and misuse our data. Confidential computing is an emerging class of security systems and service that redefines this contract by giving data owners stronger technical control over how their data is used and shared. In this talk, I will describe the fundamentals and recent advances in confidential computing. I will also talk about how confidential computing can enable a new class of trustworthy data sharing scenarios that were not feasible or too expensive before.

Bio

Kapil Vaswani is a security researcher in the Confidential Computing group at Microsoft Research. His research focuses on building secure, robust, and transparent systems. He has pioneered work on designing secure services such as databases using confidential computing and new forms of confidential computing hardware on devices like GPUs. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, where he worked on performance profiling and modeling techniques.