Microsoft adds cloud security to keep out hackers and government snoops
7 years, 6 months ago

Microsoft adds cloud security to keep out hackers and government snoops

Live Mint  

Seattle: Microsoft Corp., working with chipmaker Intel Corp., is offering a cloud-computing service with more powerful encryption to secure data from hackers– and protect it from secret government data-gathering. Called Azure confidential computing, the technology encrypts data while it is in use–which is when most security breaches occur, according to Azure chief technology officer Mark Russinovich. The confidential computing service is intended to reassure customers that are considering moving data and applications to Microsoft’s cloud that the switch will not open them up to hacks, spying and secret subpoenas. Those companies were storing the data on their own networks rather than with the big cloud providers such as Microsoft, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and market leader Amazon.com Inc. Intel and Microsoft will also probably take the new technology to the server computers that companies use in their own data centres, referred to as on-premise computing, Intel’s Echevarria said.

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4 years, 4 months ago

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India TV News  

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13 years, 8 months ago

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