February’s Issue:
- From the Executive Director
- NEW! Outreach: Job Board Page Now Live!
- Upcoming Events
- From the TAC: Trustworthy Workload Identity
- Recent News
Hello Community Member, welcome to our latest newsletter, where we share some highlights from my February travels across Europe and exciting updates in Confidential Computing.
From the Executive Director (ED)
February has been Europe-heavy for me, which makes a change (and works for me as I’m based in the UK). There were three different conferences – FOSDEM in Brussels, State of Open Con in London and the AI Security Summit in Paris. FOSDEM was (as usual!) packed and chaotic, but with devrooms for Confidential Computing and Attestation both busy, and an extra pre-summit meeting around Attestation (there were just too many talks submitted to have them all in the official conference), the amount of interest at the developer level is clearly really picking up.
At State of Open Con, I presented at pun-heavy 15 minute session on PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and also appeared on a panel around Open Source Security, excellently moderated by Divya Mohan. Sal Kimmich, our out-going Technical Community Arcthitect, presented a session on Secure Isolation and Trust Boundaries: A Crash Course for Engineers. State of Open Con is now in its third year, and continues to be one of the best open source conferences of the year.
The AI Security Summit was held the day before the huge international AI summit in Paris, and was notable for me in that the number of people who had actually heard of Confidential Computing was much higher than I’m used to. I gave an introduction to remote attestation and why it’s so important, and found myself able to dive deeper into the technical side than I’m used to: with FOSDEM and this, it really feels like the message is getting out there.
The last thing I’d like to do is mention a new Premier member to the CCC: Shielded Technologies joined us this month. We look forward to working with them and the various General and Associate members who have also recently joined.
Outreach: Job Board Page Now Live!
We’re thrilled to announce that the CCC Job Board is now live! It features exciting career opportunities for professionals passionate about advancing secure computing technologies, with roles in research, development, and the implementation of cutting-edge confidential computing solutions.
Check out the available positions and add your job postings to the board and connect with top talent! Visit the Job Board
Upcoming Events:
- OC3 March 27, 2025
- 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
- OSFF October 21-22, 2025
From the TAC: Trustworthy Workload Identity
The ability to identify a workload across the internet with cryptographic certainty is one of the key capabilities of Confidential Computing. However, much of the ecosystem still relies on less secure mechanisms, such as using filenames or other easily spoofable features, to identify code. Identifying workloads with Confidential Computing techniques offers significant benefits, but we still face ease-of-use challenges. A new community effort is emerging to improve both industry standards for Workload Identity and its ease of use. Like our other open source initiatives, these meetings and documents are publicly accessible. If you’d like to get involved, you can find the latest updates on meetings and discussions on the TAC mailing list.
Recent News
- OC3 2025 Registrations are Open: The Open Confidential Computing Conference registrations are free and already open! Join us on March 27th, either online or on-site in Berlin, to learn all about the latest developments in confidential computing by thought leaders at Microsoft, Arm, NVIDIA and more!
- Intel Announces TEE-IO Support in Latest Xeon 6 Processors: On February 24, Intel launched the latest processors in the Intel Xeon 6 family and announced support for Trusted Execution Environment-IO (TEE-IO). The Intel Xeon 6 processors with P-cores (formerly code-named “Granite Rapids”) include hardware support for Intel TDX Connect, Intel’s implementation of TEE-IO. Intel TDX Connect will enhance the performance and flexibility of Confidential Computing use cases that include confidential operations on both the CPU and a PCIe-connected device such as GPU-accelerated confidential AI. Solutions based on Intel TDX Connect will require a capable CPU, an enabled host OS/hypervisor, and a TEE-IO capable device. Intel is engaged throughout the ecosystem to accelerate enablement of complete solutions.
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