TL;DR — What’s in This Issue
- The TAC and ED are currently focused on Agentic AI security, including a response to the NIST Request for Information, and establishing digital sovereignty as a key focus area.
- The consortium welcomed two new members, Invary and Modelyo, signaling continued growth and industry adoption of Confidential Computing.
- Upcoming industry events, OC3 and GTC, will feature presentations and demonstrations showcasing real-world CC and Secure AI use cases.
- A new benefit was introduced for Premier Members: an annual podcast with the Executive Director to discuss thought leadership and open source innovations.
- Get involved. Upcoming events, open blog submissions, a growing job board, and multiple ways for members to contribute and amplify CCC work.
From the Executive Director
After a busy start to the year, February continues to bring lots to do. As well as kicking off the work in the Regulators and Standards SIG (more information about how to get involved in this and all of our other committees here), the TAC has been busy supporting their work by creating a response to a NIST request for information around security for Agentic AI. With the UK asking similar questions, it’s clear that our decisions to put work into Regulators and Standards and to have Agentic AI as one of our focus areas were both correct.
Alongside Agentic AI, another focus area we identified at the end of the year is digital sovereignty. While this is typically associated with national sovereignty – governments setting rules around data and applications that are important to citizens and businesses in a particular country – it’s also clear that more organizations are using similar language and thinking to understand how to isolate parts of their business operations from external actors and even different divisions or parts of their organization. Confidential Computing has a strong part to play here and we welcome input from our members and the ecosystem on how best to communicate this across governments and the enterprise.
Finally, we recently agreed a new benefit for Premier Members: an annual podcast with the Executive Director for each qualifying member to discuss pretty much anything around Confidential Computing from thought leadership to new technologies, from business models to open source innovations. I’m really looking forward to these conversations – keep an eye out of them as we start to record and publish them.
Oureach
We continue to see strong momentum across every vertical, driven by increasing global adoption of Confidential Computing (CC) and Secure AI. This growth, and the expanding set of real-world use cases, will be on full display at upcoming events, including OC3 on March 13 (hybrid: Berlin and online) and GTC the week of March 17.
We’re excited to share this moment with our consortium members and the broader community, especially as open source CC projects translate into production deployments across industries. At GTC, NVIDIA will showcase protections for proprietary large language models running in production, and Intel and Microsoft will feature compelling CC demonstrations at their booths.
Alongside these events, we’re equally excited to welcome new members Invary and Modelyo to the consortium this month. If you missed our February announcements, you can catch up below.
Welcoming Invary as a General Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium
- Invary is a cybersecurity company focused on continuous Runtime Integrity attestation, enabling organizations to verify that systems remain in a trusted state throughout execution, not just at boot. This capability is increasingly critical for confidential computing environments, where trust must persist across the full workload lifecycle.
- Joining the Confidential Computing Consortium allows Invary to collaborate with industry leaders who are shaping the future of trusted execution.Through CCC participation, Invary aims to help advance industry understanding of runtime integrity and contribute to standards that support verifiable trust throughout the workload lifecycle.
Welcoming Modelyo as a Start-up Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium
- Modelyo is a confidential computing platform built for government and regulated industries, where strong security guarantees and data sovereignty are essential. The platform uses OpenStack together with Intel SGX and Intel TDX to enable organizations to run sensitive workloads with hardware-level protection, while maintaining full control over their infrastructure and data.
- Through participation in the consortium, Modelyo aims to contribute practical deployment experience to the broader community, helping accelerate adoption and improve operational understanding of confidential computing in regulated contexts.
Outreach Resources:
- Post on CCC Jobs Board:
- Subscribe to CCC Monthly Newsletter and submit content via content submission form.
- Read CCC Blog Posts: submit your blog post ideas via content submission form
- Use the Member Badge and link to the CCC Website.
- Follow the CCC Events Calendar.
Upcoming Events:
- OC3, March 12, 2026 (Hybrid: Online + Berlin)
From the TAC
February was a productive month for the TAC, with two meetings (February 5 and February 19) focused on advancing guidance documents, responding to government requests for information, and continuing our popular Tech Talk series.
A major focus this month has been the TAC’s collaborative response to a NIST Request for Information on security for Agentic AI. The team worked through the document across both meetings, agreeing to attribute it to the CCC as a whole and to focus specifically on where Confidential Computing is relevant. With the UK government issuing a similar call for information, the group explored whether the NIST response could be adapted for the UK submission as well, and Mike encouraged member companies to also submit their own responses.
On the guidance documents front, Simon and Rene are leading the effort to draft concise, adoption-focused guidance documents with executive summaries and optional detailed sections. The goal is to have drafts ready for TAC review, continuing the Board’s mandate to deliver more practical technical guidance that helps organizations adopt Confidential Computing.
We also received a project update on OpenVMM from Caroline (Microsoft). While OpenVMM is not yet fully open source due to its use in millions of production Azure VMs, Microsoft is committed to migrating it to a neutral GitHub organization to meet CCC requirements, and the team is working through the complexities of that transition.
Fritz led a discussion on the format and content of TAC Tech Talks going forward. The group agreed to maintain a diverse mix of presentations, including academic research, open source project discussions, technical introductions, and architectural reviews, while establishing clearer guidelines for timing and content. If you’d like to nominate a talk, Fritz is the point of contact; the emphasis is on community value rather than marketing.
Finally, we welcomed several new community members to the TAC this month, including Benny Meir, Jordi Guijarro, Zhiqiang Lin, and Tom Jones, a sign of the continued growth and interest in the TAC’s work.
Join us at our meetings on alternating Thursdays at 7 am Pacific time. You can look up the meeting in your own timezone using the CCC Calendar. Recordings of past meetings are available on the YouTube TAC Playlist.
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