Confidential computing has always held a certain promise. The idea that workloads could process sensitive data while remaining isolated even from the infrastructure that runs them has reshaped the way many enterprise security teams think about trust. For years, we have accepted that data should be encrypted at rest and in transit, but data in use has remained exposed to the platform beneath it. Confidential computing proposes to close that gap.
What has slowed adoption is not a lack of interest but a reliance on specialized and expensive…
