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Constellation - The First Confidential Kubernetes

 Edgeless Systems secure the cloud's workloads by releasing the first runtime encrypted Kubernetes, able to run on a multitude of cloud providers. Edgeless Systems is a pioneer in the world of Confidential Computing. Last year in "EdgelessDB - Taking Database Security To The Next Level", I covered its security-oriented database which is 100% compatible with MySQL and enhanced with confidential computing capabilities based on secure enclaves on Intel SGX chips. There was a lot of terminology to assimilate in that article and as a refresher:  An enclave in simple terms, is a hardware sandbox that provides runtime protection of the data it encloses. EdgelessDB uses it in order to execute trusted and secure code on untrusted environments such as cloud platforms and already there's an integration of EdgelessDB on the Azure platform. An enclave itself is, in fact, just an instruction in the CPU architecture provided by modern CPUs. Confidential computing is a concept that t...

EdgelessDB - Taking Database Security To The Next Level

EdgelessDB is 100% compatible with MySQL enhanced with confidential computing capabilities based on secure enclaves on Intel SGX chips. These properties make it one of the safest database management systems on the market. There's a lot to assimilate here - Confidential computing, Intel SGX, Enclaves. So first of all let's tackle SGX: full article on i-programmer: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/14982-edgelessdb-taking-database-security-to-the-next-level.html