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$91,000 in Grants: How New University Research is Pushing the Boundaries of Confidential Computing

When it comes to processing sensitive data in the cloud, Confidential Computing has become the gold standard. By keeping data encrypted even while it’s actively being processed inside hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), it allows organizations to run sensitive workloads in untrusted cloud environments without losing control. However, as workloads evolve, especially with the explosive…

Confidential Computing Summit 2026: Six Signals From the Year the Foundation Got Real

Across two days and dozens of sessions, the same conclusion surfaced from cloud providers, silicon vendors, a frontier AI lab, regulators, and nation-state buyers alike. The agentic era arrived faster than the security models built to contain it, and Confidential Computing has crossed from promising primitive to the foundation that production AI, sovereign deployments, and…

Agentic AI Security is moving fast. Here’s where to start.

By Laura Martinez, Chair of Outreach Committee, Confidential Computing Consortium Agentic AI is moving faster than most security frameworks were designed to handle, and the organizations deploying it, including some of the most sophisticated enterprises in the world, are navigating new territory. The question isn't whether your team is experienced enough. It's whether the security…

Sweden’s Data Protection Authority Issues Landmark GDPR Guidance on Trusted Execution Environments

Sweden's Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY), the national data protection authority, has published a final report providing detailed legal guidance on the use of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for processing personal data outside an organization's own infrastructure. The report, released through IMY's innovation sandbox programme, is the first European regulatory assessment of TEEs grounded in a real operational…

Your AI Agents Are Already in Production. Your Security Architecture Isn’t Ready.

There's a gap opening up in enterprise security right now, and most organizations can feel it but haven't named it yet. AI agents are no longer a roadmap item. They're running in production environments, calling APIs, querying databases, reading documents, and making decisions on behalf of employees and customers. The speed of this shift has…

Securing the Agentic Future: The CCC Responds to AI Security Consultations on Both Sides of the Atlantic

The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) has recently submitted formal responses to two major government consultations on AI security: the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Request for Information on the secure development and deployment of AI agent systems (NIST-2025-0035), and the UK Government's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) Call for Information…

The Network Effect of Trust: How Open Collaboration is Unlocking the Next Frontier of Compute

By Laura Martinez, Chair of Outreach Committee, Confidential Computing Consortium In mid-October of last year, many experts arrived in SF for a mini Confidential Computing Summit. They each shared stories of how they are revolutionizing their industries through something as innocuous sounding as Confidential Computing. Last week at the Open Confidential Computing Conference, top tech…

Welcoming Modelyo as a Start-up Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium

The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) is pleased to welcome Modelyo as a new Start-up Member of the community. About Modelyo 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…

Welcoming Invary as a General Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium

The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) is pleased to welcome Invary as a new General Member of the community! About Invary 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…

Protecting Agentic AI Workloads with Confidential Computing

By Mike Bursell, Executive Director, Confidential Computing Consortium TL;DR Agentic AI, unprotected, allows unauthorised and malicious people and systems with access to the machines on which Agents run to tamper with the Agents, their execution and their data. Confidential Computing isolates workloads such as Agents, protecting them. It also provides other capabilities that can underpin…

CCC Executive Director Mike Bursell Named to OpenUK New Year Honours List 2026

This month, Mike Bursell, Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), was named in the OpenUK New Year Honours List for 2026. The list, compiled by OpenUK, “the UK organization for the business of Open Technology”, celebrates individuals supporting the UK’s leadership in Open Technology. The annual Honours List, now in its 6th year, recognises the…

CCC Outlook for 2026: A Message from Executive Director Mike Bursell

Introduction 2026 feels like an important year for Confidential Computing - one of Gartner’s top strategic technologies for the year. There are a number of trends and developments that are converging, suggesting that there are going to be major opportunities for the industry. These include: Availability of hardware - CPUs and GPUs are now well-established…

New Study Finds Confidential Computing Emerging as a Strategic Imperative for Secure AI and Data Collaboration

Research commissioned by the Confidential Computing Consortium highlights accelerating adoption driven by AI innovation, compliance standards, and data sovereignty Summary The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), a project community at the Linux Foundation, announced new IDC research, “Unlocking the Future of Data Security: Confidential Computing as a Strategic Imperative.” The global survey of 600+ IT leaders…

Welcoming Confident Security to the Confidential Computing Consortium

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…

Welcome Acompany to the Confidential Computing Consortium

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…

Designing AI Data Safeguards Together: A Look Back at CCC’s San Francisco Workshop

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.…

Welcoming FuriosaAI to the Confidential Computing Consortium

The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) is pleased to welcome FuriosaAI as our newest startup member! 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…

Welcoming Phala to the Confidential Computing Consortium

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…

QLAD Joins the Confidential Computing Consortium

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…

Welcome to the July 2025 Newsletter

In Today's Issue From the Executive Director Outreach Upcoming Events From the TAC Recent News Hello Community Member, 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,…