The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) is pleased to welcome Confident Security as a new Start-Up Member.
Confident Security is dedicated to making AI truly private, developing technologies and practices that protect data and models in use without compromising performance or accessibility. The company’s mission closely aligns with the CCC’s goal of fostering open collaboration and standards to enable secure computation across industries.
Advancing Confidential AI Through Open Collaboration
By joining the CCC, Confident Security aims to help shape and accelerate the development of Confidential AI standards, ensuring privacy, integrity, and trust in next-generation machine learning systems. The company is particularly focused on frameworks that safeguard sensitive data used in AI training and inference while maintaining openness and interoperability.
In parallel, Confident Security has been expanding its open source contributions, sharing tools that support secure, privacy-preserving communication and computation. Recent releases include:
go-nvtrust: Go bindings for NVIDIA Trust extensions
twoway: bidirectional secure communication library
Most recently, Confident Security launched its largest open source project to date – OpenPCC, an open framework for privacy-preserving encryption and AI data security. This release was accompanied by an Axios feature and a comprehensive whitepaper outlining the architecture and technical foundations behind the project. OpenPCC represents a major milestone in the company’s vision to make secure, confidential computation accessible to all.
These projects demonstrate Confident Security’s commitment to advancing open, secure innovation and complement the CCC’s mission to drive adoption of confidential computing technologies.
Strengthening a Shared Mission
“It’s our mission to make AI truly private and part of making that happen are standards and education,” said a spokesperson from Confident Security. “For that reason, we’re very excited to join CCC and to contribute and collaborate with all the members to increase adoption and use of Confidential Computing technologies.”
As a recent addition to the CCC, Confident Security aligns itself with a global collective of technology pioneers, researchers, and innovators who are collaboratively striving to establish data protection and trusted execution as fundamental pillars for confidential computing.
This month’s issue highlights key strategic developments within the CCC, including updates from the Executive Director on the Consortium’s evolving vision and upcoming 2026 priorities. You’ll also find coverage of recent outreach activities, from a successful workshop in San Francisco to our presence at the Open Source in Finance Forum in New York, along with the latest technical updates from the TAC. Finally, we share recent industry recognition from Gartner and welcome several new members advancing the mission to make Confidential Computing the foundation of secure and trusted computing worldwide.
From the Executive Director
October has been busy for the CCC. With two events (see below), new members, the creation of a research fund, new open source projects being considered for acceptance into the Consortium, the Governing Board has also been working to consider what the Consortium’s strategy for the next part of our lifecycle should look like, now that we’ve been around for six years. We considered a variety of options, with the following goal just coming out in front:
“Transform the CCC into the acknowledged leader in creating and disseminating technical excellence for CC, promoting design best practice, use cases and reference architectures. Focus: best practice technical blueprints to service CC demand.”
Close behind was a vision to engage more closely with regulators and standards bodies and system integrators to build demand for CC, and the members of the GB also expressed a clear commitment to finding ways to increase engagement of all members in the work of the CCC, in alignment with the priorities of the individual members and their strategic prioririties. I expect the work of the Executive Director over the next year and beyond closely to reflect these aspirations. In our November meeting, we plan to agree a budget for 2026 to support these goals, but in the meantime, please feel free to get in touch with me to discuss how you and your organization can make the most of these changes in how you work with and develop Confidential Computing opportunities.
Outreach
The Outreach Committee staged a successful customer workshop in San Francisco on October 20, featuring ten speakers and 30 attendees from industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to finance. Engagement was very high as attendees explored a wide range of use cases and the benefits of several active Confidential Computing deployments. The versatility, security, and compliance advantages of Confidential Computing were on full display, especially as the computing world ramps up AI. See the full report on the CCC Blog here.
The CCC was one of the Lead Sponsors for this month’s Open Source in Finance Forum in New York, with a keynote (“How to Trust a Banker”) and a track dedicated to Confidential Computing on Wednesday, the second day. Finance provides myriad use cases for Confidential Computing, and sessions in the track covered material ranging from a technical introduction to Confidential Computing to hands-on examples, use of CC to demonstrate compliance, and presentations from Google, Fr0ntierX, Super Protocol and Symphony. Conversations in the “Hallway track” also revealed that many organizations are already trialling, testing and deploying Confidential Computing in a variety of situations, and how relevant our work is to various parts of the finance sector.
From the TAC
We are always looking for new ways to assist our open source projects. CCC projects already receive a number of [benefits]. As we budget for 2026 we are proposing to create a larger benefit for a couple of projects. We want to make a material amount of funding available to help solve one problem for a project. What that problem is will vary from project to project. For example, a 3rd party security audit, by definition cannot be conducted by the project’s own maintainers. In order to keep the amount significant we will only be able to support 2 projects in this way (versus spreading a smaller amount to all projects).
Another area of continuous improvement is our own efficiency on the TAC. We have traditionally met for 2 hour sessions fortnightly. This month we compressed the meeting down to 1 hour on the same fortnightly cadence. If you were used to joining us at 7am Pacific time on alternating Thursdays, you would now join us at 8am Pacific time. To keep the same velocity of work, we are shifting some prep work to the mail list and github issues. That way our scheduled time together will be more productive.
Recent News
Gartner identifies Confidential Computing as one of the top strategy technology trends for 2026. By 2029, Gartner predicts more than 75% of operations processed in untrusted infrastructure will be secured in-use by confidential computing. Read the article.
New Member Announcement
We’re pleased to welcome Acompany Co., Ltd. as the newest General Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium. By joining the CCC, Acompany reinforces our shared goal: to make Confidential Computing the default for secure data processing and trusted AI just as HTTPS became the default for the web. Read the announcement.
We’re pleased to welcome FuriosaAI as Confidential Computing Consortium’s newest startup member! By joining CCC, FuriosaAI hopes to contribute its expertise in hardware-accelerated inference while learning from the community’s efforts to standardize and advance confidential computing practices. Read the announcement.
We are excited to welcome Phala Network as the newest General Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium! Phala is a secure cloud platform enabling developers to run AI workloads inside hardware-protected Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). They are also contributing directly to CCC-hosted projects, with their open-source project, dstack, now part of the Linux Foundation under the CCC. Read the announcement
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We’re pleased to welcome Acompany as the newest General Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)!
Acompany provides Confidential Computing as a strategic security foundation, powering secure data collaboration and advancing trusted AI. Its technology supports use cases ranging from data clean rooms for a Fortune Global 500 telecom company (KDDI) to optimized manufacturing processes and mission-critical national security initiatives.
Expanding the Global Market for Confidential Computing
Acompany joins the Consortium with a clear vision: to accelerate the global adoption of Confidential Computing through community collaboration and open innovation.
“At Acompany, our mission is ‘Trust. Data. AI.’ We are delighted to join the Confidential Computing Consortium and work with industry leaders to advance secure and trusted AI. Just as HTTPS became the default for the web, Confidential Computing will become the default for AI—and we are proud to help shape that future.” — Ryosuke Takahashi, CEO, Acompany Co., Ltd.
The company brings proven experience to the community. Its solutions already power secure data clean rooms for KDDI and support ongoing Confidential Computing research in collaboration with Intel Labs. Acompany’s participation will strengthen collective efforts to make Confidential Computing the foundation of secure data processing and privacy-preserving AI worldwide.
Community Collaboration in Action
Acompany is also engaging with CCC-hosted projects, including the Gramine framework. The team has actively participated in GitHub discussions and leveraged Gramine in their own research initiatives, helping to expand the practical applications of Confidential Computing technologies. In addition, Acompany contributes to the Consortium’s global outreach by supporting the Japanese translation of CCC’s White Papers & Reports, helping to broaden access to the Consortium’s insights and advance the global understanding and adoption of Confidential Computing.
Last week in San Francisco, our community came together for a day that reminded us why collaborative learning and shared experimentation are so vital in the confidential computing ecosystem.
Attendees represented a wide range of perspectives, from hyperscale cloud service providers, startups, think tanks, and industry ranging from pharmaceuticals to finance, to discuss Confidential Computing. The day was filled with lively technical exchanges and even laughter over afternoon bacon (yes, bacon is a snack), it was the kind of workshop that makes innovation feel personal.
A Lineup That Inspired Collaboration
We were honored to hear from a remarkable roster of speakers representing organizations at the heart of secure and privacy-preserving computing, including:
Britt Law
Duality
Google
Meta / WhatsApp
NVIDIA
Oblivious
ServiceNow with Opaque
TikTok
Tinfoil
Each talk brought a unique perspective, from real-world deployments delivering measurable business value to bold experiments shaping the future of data protection. The diversity of voices reflected the Consortium’s strength: bringing together researchers, builders, and adopters to turn ideas into impact. The versatility of Confidential Computing was evident from the wide range of solutions and use cases presented.
From Inspiration to Imagination
The day wrapped up with our “Shark Tank”-style challenge, where four teams competed to design new use cases for Confidential Computing. The creativity on display was impressive, but one concept stood out – a secure, verifiable proof of humanity – a vision that perfectly captured the balance of trust, technology, and imagination our community strives for.
Community at the Core
Behind every successful event is a network of people who make it happen. This workshop was no exception. We’re deeply grateful to Laura Martinez (NVIDIA), Mateus Guzzo (TikTok) and Mike Ferron-Jones (Intel) for their incredible leadership in bringing everything together. Their effort ensured that even the smallest logistical details (and photo moments) went smoothly.
Looking Ahead
As we look to future workshops, we’ll keep building spaces like this one: open, hands-on, and human-centered. Because progress happens when we learn together, challenge ideas together, and celebrate the journey as much as the technology itself.
Furiosa is a semiconductor company pioneering a new type of AI chip for data centers and enterprise customers. With a mission to make AI computing sustainable and accessible to everyone, Furiosa offers a full hardware and software stack that enables powerful AI at scale. Its proprietary Tensor Contraction Processor (TCP) architecture delivers world-class performance for advanced AI models, along with breakthrough energy efficiency compared to GPUs.
Furiosa’s flagship inference chip, RNGD (pronounced “renegade”), accelerates large language models and agentic AI workloads in any data center, including ones with power, cooling, and space constraints that make it difficult or impossible to deploy advanced GPUs. Currently sampling with Fortune 500 customers worldwide, RNGD is designed to power the next generation of AI applications with both high performance and significantly lower operating expenses.
Why Furiosa Joined CCC
As AI workloads scale, protecting data becomes increasingly critical. Furiosa’s energy-efficient chips enable businesses to run their models on-prem, so they can maintain complete control of their data and tooling. By joining the CCC, Furiosa is committed to collaborating with peers across the ecosystem to build a more secure and trustworthy AI infrastructure.
Furiosa hopes to contribute its expertise in hardware-accelerated inference while learning from the community’s efforts to standardize and advance confidential computing practices. The company is particularly interested in trusted execution environments and data security in AI workloads, and looks forward to identifying projects where its AI compute acceleration technology can add meaningful value.
In Their Own Words
“At Furiosa, we believe the future of AI depends on both performance and trust. By joining the Confidential Computing Consortium, we’re excited to collaborate with industry leaders to ensure AI innovation happens securely, sustainably, and at scale.” — Hanjoon Kim, Chief Technology Officer, FuriosaAI
We’re thrilled to have Furiosa join our community and look forward to the collaboration ahead. Welcome to the CCC!
We are pleased to welcome Phala as the newest General Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)! We’re glad to have Phala on board and greatly appreciate their support for our growing community.
About Phala
Phala is a secure cloud platform that enables developers to run AI workloads inside hardware-protected Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). With a strong commitment to open-source development, Phala provides confidential computing infrastructure that ensures privacy, verifiability, and scalability. Their mission is to make secure and trustworthy AI deployment practical and accessible for developers worldwide.
Why Phala Joined CCC
By joining the CCC, Phala is partnering with industry leaders to advance open standards for confidential computing. Phala brings unique expertise through real-world deployment of one of the largest TEE networks in operation today, contributing valuable experience to help accelerate adoption of confidential computing.
At the same time, Phala looks forward to learning from the broader CCC community and collaborating to strengthen interoperability across the ecosystem.
Contribution to CCC-Hosted Projects
Phala is also contributing directly to CCC-hosted projects. Its open-source project, dstack, is now part of the Linux Foundation under the CCC. dstack is a confidential computing framework that simplifies secure application deployment in TEEs, providing verifiable execution and zero-trust key management to developers.
In Their Own Words
“Confidential computing is essential to the future of secure and trustworthy AI. By joining the Confidential Computing Consortium, we are deepening our commitment to building open-source, hardware-backed infrastructure that empowers developers everywhere. We are excited to contribute our experience operating one of the largest TEE networks and to collaborate with the community on shaping the future of confidential computing.” — Marvin Tong, CEO, Phala Network
This month’s newsletter highlights the CCC’s strong presence at the AI Infrastructure Summit in Santa Clara, where members engaged end-users and ecosystem partners through panels, podcasts, and booth activities. Looking ahead, the big focus is the upcoming “Designing AI-Ready Data Safeguards with Confidential Computing” workshop on October 20 in San Francisco, led by Intel, Nvidia, and TikTok, which will explore practical strategies for securing AI data pipelines. We’re also gearing up for OSFF New York (Oct 21–22) with a dedicated Confidential Computing track. Plus, check out recent member news, the new compliance resource hub, and the latest from Google Cloud expanding Confidential Computing with Intel TDX.
From the Executive Director
This month saw the CCC sponsoring the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara, California, with a number of activities including a panel and a podcast. We also had a booth in the exhibition hall, staffed by members of the Consortium, with over a dozen different staff from a variety of member companies taking the time to talk about the CCC – and their companies’ work – to visitors. One of the key features of the AI Infra Summit is that it included a large number of end-users, with the conference attracting not just supply-side but also demand-side attendees. This mix was reflected in the interest and interactions we had at the booth, with a good number of both end-users and ecosystem partners coming to find out more about Confidential Computing and the Consortium.
In fact, one aspect of the ecosystem that has changed significantly over the past nearly six years since the founding of the Consortium is awareness of Confidential Computing as a technology, mirrored by availability both for cloud and in-house deployments. As we work on our strategy for the next year, we are considering how to build on these changes in awareness and availability to help promote use, considering activities such as stronger engagement with regulators, creation of reference architectures and publication of more white papers. Now is a good time to get involved to ensure that your priorities around Confidential Computing are reflected in the work we do: I look forward to seeing you at our meetings.
Outreach
Outreach continued its engagement efforts this month, connecting with the community at the AI Infrastructure Summit. Special thanks to members Anjuna, Hushmesh, Invary, and Mainsail for their leadership, and to TikTok, Intel, IBM, Google, and many others for their participation. Hushmesh led the Enterprise AI Panel and joined the TechArena podcast, Mainsail hosted the Pre-Show Online Seminar, and Invary led both the At-Show Live Session and the podcast. The CCC booth staffed by ~12 member representatives over three days drew strong traffic, and fostered meaningful engagement with attendees. The event was a great example of the member collaboration that drives our community forward.
Looking ahead, Outreach has been preparing for several exciting upcoming events:
Workshop: Designing AI-Ready Data Safeguards with Confidential ComputingOctober 20, 2025 | Hilton Canopy San Francisco SOMA, San Francisco, CAThis workshop, led by Intel, Nvidia and Tiktok, will bring together experts and customers from industry and academia to explore how confidential computing can enable stronger safeguards for AI-ready data, with a focus on practical strategies for building privacy-preserving and secure data pipelines.
Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) New YorkOctober 21–22, 2025 | Convene, 225 Liberty St., New York, NYOSFF New York brings together leaders across financial services, open source, and technology to discuss the future of innovation in finance. Outreach will feature six dedicated talks in the Confidential Computing track, with participation from organizations such as Google, Red Hat, Symphony, Fr0ntierX, and Super Protocol. In addition, the broader OSFF program will spotlight major financial institutions including BNY Mellon, Morgan Stanley, and Citi, showcasing how confidential computing and open source are transforming the financial services landscape.
We look forward to sharing highlights and outcomes from these events in the next newsletter!
OSFF New York Oct 21–22, 2025 | Convene, 225 Liberty St., New York, NY
From the TAC
There are no new updates to share this month, as the TAC did not convene during this period. We look forward to providing the latest TAC news and progress in next month’s newsletter.
Google Cloud has made Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) generally available across its confidential VMs, GKE nodes, and GPU offerings. The update lets organizations protect data in use with simple console settings, adds support for secure AI/ML workloads on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, and introduces Intel’s Tiber Trust Authority attestation service with a free tier.
We’re proud to highlight CCC members Manu Fontaine (Hushmesh Inc.) and Jason Rogers (Invary) for representing the Confidential Computing Consortium on the Tech Arena podcast!
Recorded live as part of our activation at the AI Infrastructure Summit this week in Santa Clara, they did a fantastic job showcasing the benefits of Confidential Computing and advocating for the mission of the CCC. Listen to the full episode here.
This page is a resource hub to help organizations and practitioners navigate governance, security, and regulatory considerations in Confidential Computing.
Explore guidance on: Workload governance, Verifier responsibilities, Ecosystem expectations, GDPR compliance in the AI era.
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This month’s update highlights important progress across the Consortium, including insights from the TAC, Outreach, and Executive Director, as well as recent member news. From preparing strategic priorities for 2026 to hands-on technical advances and upcoming events like the AI Infrastructure Summit and our October workshop, the CCC continues to bring members together to shape the future of Confidential Computing. Read on for the latest updates!
From the Executive Director
While the Consortium isn’t very busy with activities like conferences over August, that doesn’t mean that important work stands still. I’ve been working with members of the leadership team to prepare us for 2026. Budgets need to be approved towards the end of the year, of course, but we can’t start on that without a good understanding of what our strategic priorities should be for the next 12 months. So we’ve been looking at what our options might be and are looking forward to the Governing Board meeting at the end of this month, where we hope to have a robust debate about what we might do.
One of the interesting things about the Consortium is the high number of start-ups who are (mostly) General Members, and balancing their interests with those of our larger members, some of whom are Premier Members. We work hard to ensure that the views, goals and concerns of smaller members are considered and represented at the strategic level, and the make-up of the Governing Board includes three representatives of the General Members, elected once a year to the Board. We value their input and they each have a vote, equal with those of the Premier Members.
Outreach
Outreach took the month off to lay by the pool and drink mojitas (we wish!). Actually, it’s been a sprint to prepare for upcoming events including the AI Infrastructure Summit in Santa Clara, California and plan our customer workshop in San Francisco. CCC presence at AI Infrastructure Summit (September 9-11) is packed with member participation on panels, pre-show workshops, at-show sessions, podcasts, and a booth. Thanks to members Anjuna, Hushmesh, Invary, and Mainsail for their leadership at the event. Outreach is also planning a customer workshop for ~30 attendees on October 20 in San Francisco with a strong line-up of speakers on topics ranging from confidential AI, regulatory compliance, and even a build-your-own-use case exercise. Tip of the hat to members Nvidia and TikTok for taking point on workshop planning. And finally, the international survey results from our market research project with IDC are in, and we are looking forward to seeing the initial report at the Outreach meeting on September 3. IDC is targeting delivery of their full report in early October, which will be available to all members. Maybe we’ll get to lay by the pool in November? We can hope.
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From the TAC
Despite August vacations a lot transpired this month in the Technical Advisory Council. ManaTEE delivered its first annual report from Mingshen Sun. Since joining a year ago the project has made its first community release, refactored a lot of the initial research code, and added a new TEE backend (Intel TDX). They also added documentation which is great for first time users and contributors and have a slick webpage.
We also got an update on the RISC-V confidential computing architecture, CoVE from Ravi Sahita. Ravi walked us through the CoVE Application Binary Interface and Reference Architecture. Much of the collaboration for this work takes place in a sister organization in the Linux Foundation. Learn more.
We also heard from Red Hat’s Dr. Chris Butler. Chris talked about his experiences in the field applying Confidential Computing to real customer problems. It was a great ground truth on customer perceptions of the technology. One of my main takeaways was the importance of compliance in customer decisions. This has been a big topic across the Consortium and one that we need even more focus on. You can watch all of this in our TAC playlist on youtube – check out the August 7th meeting.
Recent News
We’re excited to welcome QLAD to the CCC as a new Start-up Member! QLAD is a Kubernetes-native confidential computing platform delivering pod-level TEEs, encrypted Armored Containers™, and post-quantum resilience—making confidentiality scalable and production-ready. With contributions already in the Confidential Containers project and a vision to simplify secure computing, QLAD is helping define the next era of Confidential Computing. Read the announcement.
We’re pleased to welcome QLAD to the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), as the latest innovator helping define the next era of secure computing.
QLAD is a Kubernetes-native confidential computing platform that provides runtime protection by default, delivering pod-level Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and featuring encrypted Armored Containers™ for enhanced IP protection and post-quantum resilience. With post-quantum resilience and seamless integration, no code rewrites or infrastructure changes required, QLAD enables scalable, production-ready confidentiality for modern workloads.
“At QLAD, we believe confidential computing should be simple. We’re building a platform that delivers drop-in protection for sensitive workloads, without code rewrites or infrastructure disruption. We’re proud to join the CCC community and contribute to the standards, tooling, and trust models that help organizations stay secure across clouds, edges, and collaborative environments.” — Jason Tuschen, CEO, QLAD
Confidential computing is undergoing a transformation, from experimental to essential. QLAD was founded to help accelerate that shift by making trusted execution practical and DevOps-friendly, especially for organizations deploying at scale across cloud, hybrid, and edge environments.
Why QLAD joined CCC
The CCC provides a powerful venue to drive industry alignment on standards, reference architectures, and transparent governance. QLAD sees the consortium as a collaborative platform to:
Champion workload-first adoption patterns (beyond VM- or node-level models)
Demystify confidential computing for developers and security teams
Share insights as it prepares to open-source components of its container security layer in late 2025
What QLAD brings to the community QLAD engineers are already contributing to CCC-hosted initiatives, including the Confidential Containers (CoCo) project. Contributions to date include:
QLAD engineers have contributed directly to the Confidential Containers (CoCo) project, including adding AWS SNP VLEK support across three repositories (trustee, guest-components, and azure-cvm-tooling)
Submitted eight pull requests (all merged) to cloud-api-adaptor, advancing workload orchestration in confidential environments
Engaged with members of U.S. Congress to raise awareness of Confidential Computing and Confidential Containers, helping ensure the technology receives attention and potential funding at the federal level
As QLAD prepares to open source additional components, it plans to work closely with the CCC Technical Advisory Council to align on contribution pathways and ensure long-term technical alignment.
What QLAD hopes to gain In joining CCC, QLAD looks forward to:
Advancing attestation frameworks, policy enforcement models, and container standards
Collaborating with industry peers solving real-world deployment challenges
Participating in working groups that shape the future of confidential computing across AI, hybrid cloud, and zero-trust environments
We’re excited to welcome QLAD into the CCC community and look forward to their continued contributions to making confidential computing scalable, practical, and trusted by default.
This month’s update features progress across our technical community, including updates from the TAC and Outreach Committees, new project proposals, upcoming event plans for the fall, and exciting member news. From standards engagement to real-world demo planning, the CCC continues to build momentum across the ecosystem. Read on for the latest news!
From the Executive Director (ED)
As the summer hits in the Northern Hemisphere, things sometimes slow down, but although there are no major conferences for a month or so at which the CCC is appearing, committee and SIG meetings are continuing apace. Of particular note is the Outreach Committee’s has task force to evaluate the effectiveness and value for money of the various activities in which we engage. A number of TAC SIG members have been working with standards bodies to ensure that Confidential Computing is appropriately represented in their outputs and also to work on various protocols that include Confidential Computing primitives. We always welcome involvement in our various committees and SIGs – and you don’t need to be a member to contribute, so please come along.
It’s also worth noting that almost all of our meetings are recorded and made available on the Confidential Computing Consortium’s YouTube channel, allowing you to catch up on any topics you’ve missed. There are Slack channels and mailing lists for asynchronous communication as well: visit the Committees page on the website for more information.
Finally, we have a number of new members expected to join us in the next few weeks, so keep an eye out for news around that!
Outreach
The Outreach Committee carried the Confidential Computing message to the market across a range of channels. Website, blog, and social metrics were all up over the quarter. We also came away from CC Summit and OSS North America with a good archive of talks from many members available for promotion. We are gearing up for two major in-person events in Q4’25: AI Infrastructure Summit (Silicon Valley) in September, and a bespoke customer workshop in San Francisco in October. For the AI Infrastructure Summit, we have a full slate of activities including on-line workshops, panel discussions, sessions, podcast appearances, and the CCC booth. The October event will be a one-day workshop featuring speakers, demos, and customer success stories. Thanks to all the members contributing their efforts to these events.
Outreach is also in the midst of a strategy reassessment. We are looking at our objectives and tactics and plan to report out to the Governing Board soon with recommendations we believe will drive more awareness, engagement, and adoption of Confidential Computing.
The Open Enclave SDK project recently completed its 2025 annual review, highlighting its continued role as one of the most mature and widely adopted projects within the Confidential Computing Consortium. Designed to support hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environments, OE remains central to production deployments—particularly in Intel SGX-based systems—offering a stable, well-maintained foundation for building secure enclave applications. The project’s ongoing contributions, robust documentation, and ecosystem integration make it a critical pillar of the CCC’s technical landscape. Its long-standing reliability continues to benefit both new developers and organizations building trusted workloads at scale.
In addition, the TAC is currently reviewing a proposal for a new project: dstack, an open-source confidential AI orchestration framework. Designed for secure deployment of AI workloads in TEEs, dstack represents a promising direction for expanding the Consortium’s footprint into privacy-preserving machine learning. The proposal is available on the TAC mailing list for community review, and a resolution is expected next month. We encourage members to explore the project and share feedback as part of our open, collaborative governance process.
Recent News
Missed the Confidential Computing Consortium Mini Summit at OSSNA 2025? The full session recordings are now live on the CCC YouTube channel! From ecosystem updates to deep dives into real-world applications, catch talks from leaders at NVIDIA, Microsoft, and more. Catch up now.
Confidential Computing underpins the “Mesh”, a secure-by-design alternative to the web. CCC member Hushmesh—a 2024 NATO DIANA startup (DIANA being NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic)—has been selected for NATO’s Rapid Adoption Action Plan, ratified at the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague. In collaboration with NATO DIANA, the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), and NATO HQ, Hushmesh will begin pilots of its Confidential Computing-based technologies: Universal Zero Trust, Entity-Centric Information Security, and “Meshaging.” This selection highlights the strategic relevance of Hushmesh’s “Mesh” infrastructure for defense and alliance-wide trustworthy collaboration. At the core of Hushmesh’s approach is Confidential Computing, which ensures that information remains protected not only at rest and in transit, but also in use—secured within hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). This secure-by-design foundation underpins the Mesh: a next-generation global information infrastructure that automates end-to-end information provenance, integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, privacy, and zero trust at the computing process and chip levels. It represents a fundamental shift from legacy IT-centric, and domain-centric web paradigms—addressing foundational vulnerabilities with today’s computing approaches. Built on Confidential Computing, the Mesh offers a path to universal cybersecurity and cross-domain trust to meet the secure collaboration needs of NATO and other large-scale organizations operating across national and corporate boundaries.
Are open source attestation tools speaking the same language? In Harsh Vardhan Mahawar’s LFX mentorship with the CCC, he tackled this challenge – mapping Keylime, Veraison & JANE to the IETF’s RATS model, implementing the CMW wrapper, and introducing python-ear for EAT attestation results. Read the blog.
What is Confidential Computing—and why does it matter? Watch the interview with Mike Bursell, Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, as he breaks down the fundamentals of confidential computing, attestation, and their growing importance in today’s security landscape.
We’re excited to welcome Tinfoil as the newest start-up member of the Confidential Computing Consortium. Tinfoil is an open source platform delivering cryptographically verifiable privacy for AI workloads—ensuring user data remains protected, even from the cloud provider. Learn more about their work and how they plan to contribute to the CCC community.
Best regards,
The Confidential Computing Consortium
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