Microsoft Research Unveils VC3 Cloud Workload Privacy Project
May 18, 2015
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Pedro Hernandez.
Extending its "lockbox" approach to securing data on the cloud, Microsoft’s research arm today announced a new technology dubbed Verifiable Confidential Cloud Computing, or VC3. Last year, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant announced a new process for safeguarding cloud data called a lockbox.
Encompassing a set of technologies, along with strict policies and IT practices at the company’s cloud data centers, the approach essentially places customers in complete control of their data and requires that they issue their approval before even Microsoft’s own administrators can access protected information…
Now, Microsoft is using a similar strategy to protect cloud workloads. "This new technology, called VC3, uses enhanced security measures to make sure that your data is locked in a special lockbox, even when you are accessing it, to make calculations or other transactions," stated Allison Linn, a Microsoft Research writer, in a May 18 announcement. "The technology ensures that even the employees of the company hosting you in the cloud have no way of accessing or manipulating your data."…
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