15 posts tagged with "Profian's Blog"

There’s been a flurry of articles over the past few weeks about WebAssembly (often shortened to Wasm) and its future in cloud Computing. This may come as something of a surprise to those who know Wasm only in its initial incarnation, which was as a browser technology, or its second main use case, which is as a gaming technology. Both of these uses are flourishing, but there’s a third, which is as a server technology.

Source: Profian's Blog

Link: https://profian.com/predictions-for-powerful-webassembly-in-2023/

If you are keeping up with the latest technology in cloud computing-related security, you have probably seen that several Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) have announced “confidential VMs” as part of their Confidential Computing offering. So, what exactly is a confidential VM? How does this compare to Confidential Computing? And why are cloud providers offering this?

Source: Profian's Blog

Link: https://profian.com/what-are-confidential-vms/

PDF: Enarx and Confidential VMs Compared.pdf

If you’re interested in Confidential Computing to encrypt data and applications in use, then you must be interested in attestation, because, without it, you’re not doing Confidential Computing right. Specifically, without attestation, you really don’t have the documented assurance you need to satisfy regulators (or your boss, for that matter) that you’ve done all you could to protect the sensitive data belonging to your organization, partners, citizens or customers. In this blog post, we will run through why attestation is a necessity for Confidential Computing, and make the argument that doing attestation remotely is the way to go for the highest level of security.

Source: Profian's Blog

Link: https://profian.com/remote-attestation-a-confidential-computing-best-practice-necessity/

Confidential Computing is a leading-edge security technology that encrypts sensitive data in use in a public cloud, private cloud or on-premises. It completes the data security triangle since data at rest (in storage) and in transit (across networks) is routinely encrypted.

Source: Profian's Blog

Link: https://profian.com/what-is-confidential-computing/

PDF: What is Confidential Computing.pdf

The CNCF is a giant in the tech and computing community, and we’re honored to be a member. At the Silver level, we have the opportunity to participate and be supported in a variety of ways.

Source: Profian's Blog

Link: https://profian.com/why-profian-joined-the-cncf/

There are now three ways to use the service: Examples, Drawbridge, and Upload. All of them run on both Intel SGX and AMD SEV with no changes between them, and all of them support applications written in multiple languages.

Source: Profian's Blog

Link: https://profian.com/how-to-test-more-complex-workloads-with-enarx/

Today, we're very proud to announce that you can deploy applications at the click of a button - and we'd like to invite you to try. All you need to do is to visit to try.enarx.dev, sign in with a GitHub account ID, and upload your own application, compiled as a Wasm (WebAssembly) file.

Source: Profian's Blog

Link: https://blog.profian.com/confidential-computing-now-for-free/

Title: The Future of Attestation in a Confidential World
Author: Nathaniel McCallum
Date: June 21, 2022

Source: Confidential Computing Consortium

Link: https://blog.profian.com/the-future-of-attestation-in-a-confidential-world/

Profian is attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, in Valencia, Spain. Around 7500 attendees from across the world are participating. Profian is a Gold sponsor of Wasm Day, a co-located event in its third edition, bringing together the WebAssembly community specially interested in using Wasm on the server-side.

Source: Profian's Blog

Link: https://blog.profian.com/wasm-day-at-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2022/

Title: WASI Networking: Towards a World Wide WebAssembly
Author: Nathaniel McCallum, Harald Hoyer
Date: May 16, 2022

The advancement of WASI, the WebAssembly System Interface, is key to pushing WebAssembly beyond the browser - from the Cloud to the Edge - allowing developers to build applications that are capable of running in a wide range of architectures and interfacing with an array of systems. One of the most exciting developments has been WASI’s networking support, which will unleash a whole new set of applications. In this session, we’ll explore the current state of WASI networking and cover the recent implementation of sock_accept(). Next, we’ll demonstrate a Wasm server using the Rust mio framework, along with some examples of networked applications. Finally, we’ll discuss the next steps towards building a full fledged networking API and the future of network-enabled WebAssembly applications, including some considerations with regards to deploying network identities and security implications.

Source: KubeCon / Wasm Day Europe 2022

Link: https://blog.profian.com/wasi-networking/