Keeping data private in our cloud age: Microsoft paves its way.

Sophisticated, internal and targeted threats targeting private data, sensitive data, cloud services and technologies are more and more aggressive. This blunt reality is a real challenge for solutions providers to ensure that the data and technologies are secure even if the provider has a bad actor in its own ranks.

This trend also leads to observe that cloud solutions are more and more better secure than on-premise classic solution and systems. 

Microsoft accelerates its researches and perspectives in security cloud storage. Its new research project, released at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, adds an extra layer of security for companies that are charged with safeguarding very sensitive information, such as financial data or personal records, and also regularly need to use that data to make calculations or conduct other transactions.

The new technology called Verifiable Confidential Cloud Computing, or VC3, interacts with data stored in a sort of lockbox that can be accessed only within secure hardware managed by VC3.

Data is loaded into the secure hardware in the cloud, where the data is decrypted, processed and re-encrypted. ‘No one can see or access the data’.