Confidential computing with IBM includes a range of services from the Hyper Protect Services portfolio to deploy containerized, mission-critical workloads in isolated enclaves with exclusive key control, ensuring data confidentiality and code integrity.
Enterprises are moving their applications to cloud to reduce cost, simplify and consolidate their IT environment, and take advantage of hybrid clouds flexibility. However, security remains the top concern. For years, cloud providers have offered encryption services to help protect data at rest and data in transit, but not data in use. Confidential computing protects data during processing by performing computation in a hardware-based, trusted execution environment (TEE), which eliminates the remaining data security vulnerability.
Hyper Protect Services use confidential computing and go beyond data in use protection by protecting the entire compute lifecycle. You gain a higher level of privacy assurance with complete authority over your data at rest, in transit, and in use – all with an integrated developer experience.
By leveraging IBM Secure Execution for Linux technology, part of the hardware of IBM z15 and IBM LinuxONE III generation systems, IBM Cloud provides confidential computing as-a-service solutions with technical assurance. With Hyper Protect Services, you can run your most valuable applications and data in IBM’s isolated enclaves or trusted execution environments with exclusive encryption key control - Even IBM cannot access your data.
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Address your security concerns when you move mission-critical workloads to hybrid cloud through an as-a-service solution with developer-friendly experience. You have exclusive control over your encryption keys, data, and applications to meet data sovereignty requirements.
Provide container runtime isolation with technical assurance and zero trust, powered by IBM Secure Execution for Linux technology. This ensures that unauthorized users – including IBM Cloud infrastructure admins – cannot access your data and applications, thus mitigating both external and internal threats.
Implement policy enforcement with encrypted contracts at the moment of deployment to make sure that your data and code is not altered at any time. Provide remote attestation service without any need to trust other key management services or external third parties beyond certificate authorities.
Gain complete authority over Linux- based virtual servers with auditable deployment of trustworthy container images in a tamper-proof environment.
Take exclusive control of encryption keys in a single-tenant multicloud key management service with a customer exclusively controlled hardware security module (HSM).
Securely build, deploy, and manage mission-critical applications for hybrid cloud implementations on IBM LinuxONE and IBM Z, while data-in-use stays protected.
Help deploy cold storage solutions for Digital Assets, which turns the entire digital asset transaction signing process from a manual operation to a completely automated and policy-driven one.
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Protect sensitive data such as patient health information and payment records. Aid disease diagnostic and drug development with AI solutions while ensuring data privacy.
Secure payment processing, protect sensitive financial information, prevent fraud, and ensure regulatory compliance. Create a trusted platform for digital assets, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and policy enforcement.
Ensure regulatory compliance on customer data aggregation and analysis. Make it possible to share data for multi-party collaboration to prevent retail crime while keeping data from each party private.
Facilitate digital transformation involving critical personal data such as identification numbers and biometrics. Improve service reliability and resilience to defend advanced cyber attacks on public infrastructures.
Protect Intellectual Properties (IPs) during the manufacturing process. Ensure the data and technologies are protected along the supply chain at every stage to avoid data leaks and unauthorized access.
Enable providers to offer cloud-native solutions for customers with mission-critical data or regulatory requirements. Ensure clients' data remain inaccessible not only by the service provider but also by the underlying cloud infrastructure.
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IBM Hyper Protect Platform explained
IBM Hyper Protect Platform is a suite of services designed to provide a highly secure environment for mission-critical data and applications in hybrid cloud deployments, leveraging confidential computing capabilities on IBM Z or LinuxONE. For more details, see the Redbook: IBM Hyper Protect Platform: Applying Data Protection and Confidentiality in a Hybrid Cloud Environment.
Confidential Computing refers to the protection of data in use by performing computation in an attested, hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), ensuring data is encrypted and isolated during processing. IBM Hyper Protect Platform utilize this concept to protect mission-critical workloads and sensitive data.
Operational assurance ensures that the operations conducted by service providers and others are compliant and do not intentionally or unintentionally compromise security. This is based on operational measures - which are breakable resulting in the need to trust.
Technical assurance ensures that the security features are ingrained in the technology, and it is technically impossible for unauthorized access or changes to occur. This ensures that data is secured at all times, without the need to trust any person or organization to not exploit privileged access in the case of internal or external attacks.
The Hyper Protect Platform leverages IBM Secure Execution for Linux technology that includes hardware and firmware features such as memory encryption, encrypted contracts, and an Ultravisor to create isolated, secure environments for workloads.