A secure cloud for all industries? Confidential Computing makes it possible
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Digitization is slowly but surely gaining momentum. Thanks to the use of confidential computing and highly secure services, even heavily regulated industries are now venturing into the cloud.
Even in a notoriously digitization-lazy country like Germany, digitization is gaining momentum. Sectors are increasingly outsourcing processes to the cloud: three out of four German companies are now using cloud computing services, such as one commissioned by KPMG Bitkom study from 2020 shows. In the meantime there are probably even more: Remote Work has given the digital transformation a boost in the past few months.
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Cloud migration vs. data protection: some industries are more hesitant than others
But while the majority of companies are happy to accept SaaS and cloud offerings, some industries are still hesitant to find their way to the cloud – because of security concerns, as the study mentioned above shows. The insurance industry can be cited as a concrete example. An actual Deloitte study on the future of private health insurance shows: The outsourcing of core processes with personal data to the cloud is still unimaginable for many insurers. Main reason? Data protection!
Because for personal data – but also for other sensitive data such as financial data or trade secrets – particularly strict data protection requirements apply. Anyone who processes such sensitive data must take appropriate measures to protect it. It’s difficult in the cloud – isn’t it?
With Confidental Computing, your data is always encrypted. (Graphic: Shutterstock / Blackboard)
Personal data in the cloud – thanks to confidential computing
The fact is that with the right technology, sensitive data can also go to the cloud. Confidential computing makes it possible: data is not only encrypted when it is stored and transmitted, but also during processing in the cloud.
In order for this to work, data is only processed within a secure enclave – a trusted execution environment. These are areas that are shielded from each other and from the rest of the system and in which only signed code has access to the data. Unwanted access to processed data should be impossible, even with admin rights. Alternative names for the same concept are zero-knowledge computing or sealed computing.
Data protection as SaaS: Sealed Cloud for all industries
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With idgard, the Tüv Süd subsidiary uniscon offers maximum data security for all industries thanks to confidential computing.
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The Sealed cloud of the Tüv Süd subsidiary uniscon implements the confidential computing approach with a sophisticated set of interlinked technical protective measures. uniscon’s own cloud service idgard is based on this sealed cloud technology and is therefore aimed specifically at companies and industries that work with sensitive information. Highly secure virtual data rooms with audit-proof journals also document all document access and thus ensure an additional level of security in the cloud. Even uniscon, as the operator of the service, has no access to the server during processing: the key for the data lies solely with the customer.
And word gets around: A significant increase in the number of new contracts concluded shows that in 2020 even heavily regulated industries that handle sensitive data have increasingly found their way into the Sealed Cloud. Including companies from the consulting sector as well as auditors and tax auditors.
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Are you curious? Then test the highly secure business cloud from Germany now for free! As a t3n reader, you can try idgard for 30 days instead of the usual 14 days – with 100 gigabytes of storage, five full licenses and all important functions such as a virtual data room and antivirus. It only takes a minute to sign up and you don’t have to provide any payment information!
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