Thales has confirmed a collaboration leveraging Thales CipherTrust Data Security platform to deliver end-to-end data security using confidential computing and trusted attestation backed by Intel Trust Authority.
This collaboration enables customers in highly regulated industries to secure workloads and protect data in use on-premises and in the cloud by performing computations in a cryptographically isolated hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE).
Often, the cryptographic material verifying the TEE is managed by the cloud provider. The Thales solution effectively sidesteps this security issue by implementing separation of duties and puts the customer in control of the cryptographic key material.
This approach eliminates the need to place complete trust in the cloud provider.
Using trusted attestation from Intel, Thales’ CipherTrust Data Security Platform can ensure sensitive workloads are never decrypted outside of an Intel TEE, Intel Trust Domain Extension (TDX) or Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX).
Todd Moore, Vice President of Data Security Products, Thales said the collaboration enables security conscious organisations to share data safely, preserving privacy, confidentiality and compliance with regulatory requirements – only disclosing the results of processes performed.
Anil Rao, Vice President, Systems Architecture and Engineering and Office of the CTO, Intel, said: “It is critical that enterprises retain control of their data protection and can confidently retain business agility while meeting compliance requirements. Together, Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform, Intel Confidential Computing technologies and Intel Trust Authority provide customers the tools they need to do so.”
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