In Today’s Issue
- From the Executive Director
- Outreach: OC3 Retro and RSAC
- Upcoming Events
- From the TAC
- Recent News
Welcome to our latest newsletter! This month’s newsletter highlights the CCC’s growing presence at major industry events, including an expanded booth at RSAC and strong member engagement at OC3. We also spotlight technical milestones from Gramine and Enarx, new governance resources to support compliance, and a thought-provoking webinar on confidential computing in the cloud.
From the Executive Director (ED)
As you’ll see below, the CCC has a booth at the RSA Conference this month. The conference is probably the biggest security conference in the world, and this is our second year with a booth. This year, we’ve gone out of our way to encourage members to help staff the booth. The costs for individual members for a booth at the Expo are very high, and the opportunity to be on the CCC booth allows members not only the chance to talk to attendees about the CCC, but also to discuss their own products and solutions. I’ve enjoyed staffing the booth alongside our members, and while there are still lots of people coming to see us who don’t know what Confidential Computing is, I’ve been cheered by the percentage of attendees who have got some idea of what the technology provides.
We’ll be at other upcoming events and will be inviting members to staff booths at those as well: keep a lookout for Outreach announcements – or better yet, join the calls!
Outreach
OC3 – Retro
- At OC3, Mike Bursell presented “Why Remote Attestation is the Next Business Driver” during the CCC session. He emphasized that while trusted execution environments (TEEs) are transforming how businesses manage and interact with data, Remote Attestation is a critical next step. Often treated as an add-on, Remote Attestation is essential to fully realizing the value of Confidential Computing. Mike outlined why it matters and shared concrete examples of its significant business impact.
CCC members were highly engaged at OC3, with many companies showcasing projects spanning Confidential Computing, attestation frameworks, secure data processing, and emerging industry use cases.
In addition to individual project presentations, members also shared updates on collaborative initiatives and cross-industry efforts aimed at driving standards, improving interoperability, and supporting broader adoption.
You can view the full schedule of CCC member presentations and initiatives here.
Watch all OC3 session recordings here.
RSAC – Happening this week
- The CCC is hosting a booth this week at RSAC, featuring double the space and an enhanced setup to showcase a broader range of member projects and initiatives in Confidential Computing. This year, a notable number of members are presenting their projects and products, including Anjuna, Fortanix, Hushmesh, IBM, Intel, Invary, Linux Foundation, NVIDIA, and TikTok (listed alphabetically). We invite you to stop by the CCC booth to learn more about Confidential Computing and how you can get involved. A sincere thank you to all participating members for their contributions – we look forward to even greater participation in the future.
Upcoming Events
- RSA Conference April 28-May 1, 2025
- Confidential Computing Summit June 17-18, 2025
- Confidential Computing Mini Summit June 26, 2025
- AI Infra Summit September 9-11, 2025
From the TAC
This month we got annual updates from both our longest running project, Enarx, and our most adopted project, Gramine.
Enarx is in its second life. Richard Zak continues to carry the torch and maintain Enarx as companies continue to express interest in the unique TEE-agnostic, WASM-based, workload isolation capabilities Enarx provides.
Gramine won the prestigious ACSAC (Annual Computer Security Applications Conference) Cybersecurity Artifact Award at the end of the year. If you missed our post on that you can read it here.
Gramine has also expanded scope from process isolation with SGX to VM isolation with TDX. Gramine was able to reuse a significant portion of the hardened LibOS to provide a tighter security footprint alternative to general purpose Confidential VMs. You can read more about it in their ACM paper.
This month the Governance, Risk, and Compliance SIG has elevated three Governance Patterns to the TAC for final review. These documents will help compliance officers understand best practices for correct use of Confidential Computing technologies. These are some of the first documents we are creating to help people understand how Confidential Computing helps satisfy compliance requirements.
Recent News
- CCC Executive Director Mike Bursell appeared on a webinar on April 15th titled “Public is Private – Confidential Computing in the Cloud” along with Manu Fontaine, founder of Hushmesh. The webinar explored the transformative potential of confidential computing for cloud environments. It’s now available to watch for free on demand here.
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