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TL;DR — What’s in This Issue

• 2026 momentum is real. CCC kicks off the year with new leadership for the Regulators & Standards SIG, expanding member activity, and a clear shift from awareness to real-world confidential computing deployments.
• Stronger outreach, sharper storytelling. The Outreach Committee aligns on a more strategic, full-stack approach to technical thought leadership, events, and member-driven content for 2026.
• More practical technical guidance ahead. The TAC is focused on delivering adoption-focused technical guidance and kicked off the year with a deep dive on browser-based remote attestation.
• Industry validation continues. New NVIDIA coverage underscores accelerating confidential computing adoption across CPUs, GPUs, and interconnects, matching what CCC research is already showing.
• 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 

Hello Community Member,

Welcome to the New Year (that’s if you follow the Gregorian calendar, of course). I can’t remember a more busy January for the Confidential Computing Consortium. We already have three articles on our blog – do have a look. We’ve also elected a Chair (Solomon Cates, Google Cloud) and Vice Chair (Michael Guzman, JPMC) to our newly-created Regulators and Standards Special Interest Group. I’m hearing from multiple members that they expect this year to be an important and busy one around Confidential Computing, and we want to ensure that the Consortium is the place for everyone to learn about, grow and improve the ecosystem.  Our Outreach and Technical Advisory Committee have new initiatives as we move from a phase of people discovering Confidential Computing to planning and rolling out deployments.

You’ll read in the article Protecting Agentic AI Workloads with Confidential Computing how important Confidential Computing is for Agentic AI, and you can expect more articles around both technical issues related to CC and applicability to particular use cases and sectors.  If you’re a member of the CCC, we welcome articles, particularly around use cases or technical issues: please contact the Outreach Committee, who manage our blog and content schedules.

On a final note, the New Year is a time when lots of people are looking for new roles, and we have a job board of Confidential Computing related jobs.  Again, if you’re a member, you (or your HR department!) can post roles there for free. This benefits the entire ecosystem, giving you a chance to expose interesting roles within your company while acting as a single aggregation point for job seekers.

Outreach

The Outreach Committee began 2026 by aligning on a more integrated and strategic approach to marketing and member engagement, led by the new Outreach Chair Laura Martinez and Vice Chair Rachel Wan, together with active participation from committee members. The committee is prioritizing full-stack Confidential Computing, and Secure and Sovereign AI awareness through sharing our expertise across the engagement spectrum. Specific focus will be around technical thought leadership, coordinated storytelling across tied to strategic events, and stronger activation of content brought in from member expertise. Technical blogs continue to be the highest-performing channel, and work is underway to develop a structured 2026 content calendar spanning blogs, newsletters, and event amplification.

Key updates this month include early planning for annual Outreach OKRs with mid-year reviews, progress on a unified outreach and events calendar, and continued promotion of the IDC white paper as a core thought-leadership asset. 

Looking ahead, the Outreach Committee will deepen coordination with other CCC committees to surface technical content earlier, expand member participation in blogs and newsletters, and align outreach efforts with major industry milestones. Members are encouraged to submit technical blog ideas, company updates, job postings, and event announcements, and to continue amplifying CCC content across their networks.

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

The TAC is kicking off 2026 focusing on a mission from the Board to deliver more technical guidance docs to help people adopt Confidential Computing. If you’d like to help shape the document, join us at one of our meetings on alternating Thursdays at 7 am pacific time. You can look up the meeting in your own timezone using the CCC Calendar.

We also had our first TAC Tech Talk of the year. Rüdiger Kapitza and Luca Preibsch gave a detailed presentation on the topic “Browser-based Remote Attestation”.They also discussed their follow-up work on runtime attestation and the possibility of using site certificates for attestation. You can watch this and previous talks on our Tech Talk Playlist.

Recent News

• CCC Outlook for 2026: A Message from Executive Director Mike Bursell
  • Mike Bursell, Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, shares the CCC’s outlook for the year ahead and why momentum is accelerating across the ecosystem.
  • From growing regulator interest and AI security needs, to digital sovereignty, attestation, and a clear shift toward demand-side adoption, this post outlines where Confidential Computing is heading and how the CCC is focusing its work in 2026.
• CCC Executive Director Mike Bursell Named to OpenUK New Year Honours List 2026
  • Congratulations to Mike Bursell, Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, on being named to the OpenUK New Year Honours List for 2026.This recognition celebrates his long-standing contributions to open source and his leadership in advancing confidential computing as a foundation for security, privacy, and trustworthy systems. Read the announcement.
• Protecting Agentic AI Workloads with Confidential Computing
  • As AI systems become more autonomous, protecting agent identity and data becomes critical. This new blog from Mike Bursell explores a growing gap in AI security: Agentic AI systems can be tampered with unless their identity, workloads, and data are protected. It explains how Confidential Computing provides hardware-based isolation and attestation to help make autonomous agents more trustworthy and verifiable. Read the blog.
• Nvidia Touts New Storage Platform, Confidential Computing For Vera Rubin NVL72 Server Rack
  • New coverage on NVIDIA’s Rubin NVL72 highlights a major shift: confidential computing is extending across CPU, GPU, and interconnects, enabling organizations to verify trust cryptographically rather than rely on contractual assurances. This momentum reflects what our ecosystem is already seeing. CCC and IDC research shows that 75% of organizations are adopting confidential computing, with production deployments accelerating across regulated and high-risk environments.

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In Today’s Issue

1. From the Executive Director
2. Outreach
3. From the TAC
4. Recent News

In this issue, we mark a major milestone for Confidential Computing with the release of the CCC-commissioned IDC report and Gartner naming it a top strategic technology trend for 2026. As adoption grows across AI, finance, healthcare, and Web3, we are deepening regulatory engagement through a new SIG, advancing discussions on digital sovereignty, and building strong ecosystem momentum heading into 2026. Read this month’s newsletter to learn more.

From the Executive Director 

The big news this month has been the release of the CCC-commissioned report Unlocking the Future of Data Security: Confidential Computing as a Strategic Imperative and Gartner’s identifying Confidential Computing as one of its top 10 strategic technology trends for 2026.  Both of these confirm that Confidential Computing is now reaching the mainstream and its use across multiple domains, from AI to pharmaceuticals, finance to Web3 is becoming a driver for collaboration, privacy and meeting regulations globally.

This focus on regulatory compliance has led the Governing Board to create a new Special Interest Group (SIG) focused on engaging with Regulatory and Standards bodies.  This SIG is different to most of our others in that it is not driven first and foremost by technical requirements but is aiming to work at the regulatory level, pushing inclusion of Confidential Computing as a key technology within relevant standards worldwide.  We already have engagement from several experts – if you are interested, please get in touch.

The final event of the year was Open Source Summit Japan in Tokyo, where I spoke on another topic that has been gaining traction – Digital Sovereignty.  With nations worldwide concerned to maintain the safety and security of their government’s, businesses’ and citizens’ data and processes, Confidential Computing has emerged as a technology that can have significant impact.  Expect to see more discussion of this in the coming months.

For those of you celebrating, have a great holiday period: I will be enjoying a Christmas and New Year with family and friends – keep safe and I look forward to a busy and productive 2026.

Outreach

In December, the Outreach committee delivered and published the research project in collaboration with IDC, “Unlocking the Future of Data Security: Confidential Computing as a Strategic Imperative.” Following publication, Outreach executed a coordinated amplification effort including a press release and a multi-channel social campaign across LinkedIn and X. Early results show strong engagement, with thousands of social impressions and double digit downloads within the first few weeks of release.

Additionally, Outreach further developed and aligned on a comprehensive digital marketing strategy, introducing paid media and always-on promotion as a new core initiative for 2026. This digital marketing initiative will expand Outreach’s impact and reach by moving beyond one-off, reactive promotions toward a more predictable and sustained engagement model that supports awareness, consideration, and conversion throughout the year.

The proposed approach leverages a coordinated, multi-channel mix (including but not limited to search, display, video, and professional social platforms), each playing a distinct role across the engagement funnel. Importantly, this initiative also introduces a more structured operating model for Outreach, emphasizing recurring campaigns, performance tracking, and a member-driven content pipeline featuring industry projects and insights. By pairing a streamlined event portfolio with sustained digital engagement, Outreach expects to significantly magnify the reach and longevity of its content, improve consistency of market presence, and create a scalable foundation for growth and adoption.

TAC Update

Our last meeting of the year, December 11th, we heard from colleagues in the CNCF CoCo community about Trustee. This attestation project might address key issues identified in the IDC report released last month.

If you’d like to watch the presentation you can see it in our CCC TAC Youtube Channel here: https://youtu.be/v5bzB9EMP1I?t=859 The slides will also be publicly available in our meeting minutes or directly here. 

Recent News

1.OPPO, with Intel & Alibaba, Demonstrates New Confidential Model as a Service Offering

CCC members OPPO and Intel, in partnership with Alibaba, announced their jointly-developed Confidential Model as a Service (MaaS) architecture at Alibaba’s Yunqi Conference in Hangzhou, China.  OPPO is among the largest makers of advanced mobile devices and smartphones in China, and provides software and technology to support mobile services. Using Intel TDX–based Confidential Computing, OPPO showcased their confidential LLM assistant running on OPPO smartphone and disclosed that their Global Private Compute Cloud (PCC) has already been deployed across five global regions.  The whitepaper describing the Confidential MaaS solution is here (Chinese): https://developer.aliyun.com/ebook/8461.

2. Oracle has announced support for GPU Confidential Computing on Oracle Linux 9, extending confidential computing protections beyond CPUs to GPU accelerated workloads. The update explains how organizations can securely run sensitive AI, analytics, and high-performance workloads by isolating GPUs inside trusted execution environments, protecting data not only at rest and in transit, but also in use.

The approach combines CPU based trusted execution (using Intel TDX) with NVIDIA GPUs running in Confidential Compute mode, so GPU memory contents are encrypted and inaccessible to the host, hypervisor, or other software outside the trusted boundary. Importantly, Oracle emphasizes that existing applications can benefit from these protections without code changes, helping customers meet regulatory and compliance requirements for sensitive data such as financial, healthcare, or proprietary IP.

In Today’s Issue

1. From the Executive Director
2. Outreach
3. From the TAC
4. Recent News

This month’s issue highlights several significant year-end milestones across the Consortium — from finalizing the 2026 budget to electing our next slate of Governing Board, TAC, and Outreach committee officers. November is always a pivotal planning period, and this year brings meaningful progress on strategic direction, resource allocation, and community-facing initiatives. We’re also closing out major projects, including our IDC research study, while preparing for a strong and globally connected 2026.

From the Executive Director 

November brings two important sets of decisions for the Consortium each year: what our budget should look like and who should serve as officers of the Governing Board and our committees. 

Over the past couple of years, the GB made the decision to run down our surplus (accrued mainly due to reduced activities during the Covid era), but this course of action is of course unsustainable and was always planned as a short-term measure. The Board has therefore spent much time over the past two months considering the various options available to the Consortium, supported with options (and many, many numbers!) from the supporting staff of the Linux Foundation, who, as ever, have been extraordinarily helpful.

By the time this newsletter reaches you, the final shape of the budget for 2026 should be complete and agreed, leaving us in a secure financial position not just for next year, but for the coming years after that.

Alongside the budget discussions, we’ve been running votes for the Chair and Vice-Chair positions of the Governing Board, TAC and Outreach committees.  I’d like to welcome the following folks:

• Governing Board Chair: Nelly Porter (Google) – returning
• Governing Board Vice-Chair: Michael O’Connor (Nvidia)
• Governing Board General Member Representatives:
  • Jens Albers (Fr0ntierX)
  • Samuel Ortiz (Rivos Inc) – returning
  • Manu Fontaine (Hushmesh) – returning
• TAC Chair: Dan Middleton (Nvidia) – returning
• TAC Vice-Chair: Ijlal Loutfi (Canonical)
• Outreach Chair: Laura Martinez (Nvidia)

We will hold an election for Outreach Vice-Chair to fill this final position. I’d like to thank not only the returning officers, but also outgoing officers: Emily Fox, Mike Ferron-Jones and Yash Mankad for their hard work over the past twelve months.

Outreach

In November, the Outreach committee focused on finalizing our research project with IDC and determining our optimal strategy for 2026.  The IDC project titled, “Unlocking the Future of Data Security: Confidential Computing as a Strategic Imperative,” compiles results from 600 respondents in multiple countries.  It reveals growing awareness of Confidential Computing, tested the attractiveness of over a dozen usages, and showed impediments that need to be addressed to support wider adoption.  We are putting the finishing touches on it now, and plan to make it public in early December.

In 2026, Outreach plans to increase our global reach by optimizing event portfolio and  investing new resources in online content marketing and promotion. Our events strategy will be designed to maintain strong relationships with our ecosystem members, but also grow new adopters via events affiliated with security and privacy technologies, and fertile various industry segments.

From the TAC

We initiated the 2026 strategic direction, prioritizing the creation and dissemination of technical blueprints, best practices, and reference architectures, aligning with the Governing Board’s direction. A key theme arising from this is the immediate need for improved documentation and “how to get started” guides. Separately, the TAC received the annual review for the Islet project. Islet is unique in our portfolio in supporting mobile devices.

We also discussed recent publications assessing Confidential Computing. Our documents may not reflect the shared responsibility model, where the Cloud Service Provider remains part of the TCB for physical security. The TAC will look at revising existing documents or adding new ones to make this aspect more clear.

Finally we decided on 2026 allocations for two projects: Veraison (Program Management), SPDM (Security Audit). The Governing Board subsequently approved a smaller budget and so we may need to revisit our plans here.

Please join us at our last meeting of the year, December 11th, where we will hear from colleagues in the CNCF CoCo community talk about Trustee. This attestation project might become a key enabler to help adopters use the variety of attestation services emerging in the ecosystem.

Recent News

• The Confidential Computing Consortium welcomes Confident Security as our newest Start-Up Member: Their work to make AI truly private, including OpenPCC, ohttp, bhttp, go-nvtrust, and more, directly supports our mission to advance open standards and adoption of Confidential Computing. Read the full announcement.
• Microsoft Announces Preview of Newest Confidential VMs: This month at Ignite, Microsoft announced the latest addition to the Azure Confidential Computing portfolio with the preview of Azure Confidential VMs powered by Intel® TDX on 5th Gen Xeon processors.  These new Confidential VMs come equipped with AI acceleration built into the CPU with Intel® AMX technology.  For confidential storage and other workloads that need a balance of SSD capacity, compute, and memory, these new VMs can be provisioned with high-performance NVMe drives, achieving nearly 5X more throughput while reducing latency by about 16% compared to the previous SCSI generation. Overall, Microsoft reports lower IO latency by ~27 microseconds across block size and thread count. These Confidential VMs are also the first to use the open-source paravisor, OpenHCL. General availability is expected in select North American and European regions in Q1 2026.  Bosch, Thales, TDC Erhverv, and Arqit announced partnerships and endorsements as part of the reveal at Ignite. Read the full announcement.
• CanaryBit Selected for Regulatory Sandbox with Ericsson and Volvo Group: CanaryBit, Ericsson and Volvo Group are collaborating to increase road safety, and the Swedish Authority for Privacy and Protection (IMY) is investigating the business use-case in a regulatory sandbox. CanaryBit Confidential Cloud suite enables secure, real-time vehicle-to-infrastructure data without compromising individual privacy. The sandbox project will examine whether Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) can process road-infrastructure traffic data whilst preserving privacy. The outcome will refine regulations and accelerate privacy-first mobility innovations, a key step to unlocking the full potential of connected vehicles to create safer roads for everyone. This is a landmark moment, as it’s the first time a privacy authority has formally assessed TEEs as a Privacy Enhancing Technology.
  

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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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The Confidential Computing Consortium

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In Today’s Issue

1. From the Executive Director
2. Outreach
3. Upcoming Events
4. From the TAC
5. Recent News

Hello Community Member,

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!

Upcoming Events

• Workshop: Designing AI Ready Data Safeguards with Confidential Computing Oct 20, 2025 | Hilton Canopy San Francisco SOMA, San Francisco, CA
• 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.

Recent News

• Google Expands Confidential Computing with Intel TDX

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.

• Inside Confidential Computing with Hushmesh & Invary

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.

• New Compliance page is live

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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The Confidential Computing Consortium

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In Today’s Issue

1. From the Executive Director
2. Outreach
3. Upcoming Events
4. From the TAC
5. Recent News

Hello Community Member,

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.

Upcoming Events

• AI Infra Summit – September 9-11, 2025
• CCC Hosted Workshop: Designing AI Data Safeguards with Confidential Computing – October 20, 2025, San Francisco
  • Join this one-day workshop to explore how Confidential Computing can protect sensitive AI initiatives, enable compliance, and unlock new capabilities. Hear real-world examples from industry leaders and collaborate with experts to develop solutions tailored for your business.

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.

Best regards,

The Confidential Computing Consortium

In Today’s Issue

1. From the Executive Director
2. Outreach: OC3 Retro and RSAC
3. Upcoming Events
4. From the TAC
5. 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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