Announcing: Microsoft moves $25 Billion in credit card transactions to Azure confidential computing
Microsoft is proud to showcase that customers in the financial sector can rely on public Azure to add confidentiality to provide secure and compliant payment solutions that meet or exceed industry standards. Microsoft is committed to hosting 100% of our payment services on Azure, just as we would expect our customers to do. Microsoft’s Commerce Financial Services (CFS) has completed a critical milestone by deploying a level 1 Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliant credit card processing and vaulting solution, moving $25 Billion in annual credit card transactions to the public Azure cloud.
Announcing Trusted Launch as default in Azure Portal
In the spirit of ‘Secure-by-default’, today, we are announcing Trusted Launch virtual machines as default in Azure Portal. With Trusted Launch as default, the security settings in Portal are pre-set for you and no special attention is required. Any new VM created on Azure Portal will have Trusted Launch capabilities turned on by default.Confidential VM node pool with AMD SEV-SNP protection available on AKS in public preview
AKS node pools now support the generally available confidential VM sizes (DCav5/ECav5). Confidential VMs with AMD SEV-SNP support bring a new set of security features to protect date-in-use with full VM memory encryption. This enables confidential VM node pools to target the migration of highly sensitive container workloads to AKS without any code refactoring while benefiting from the full AKS feature support.
BigDL Privacy Preserving Machine Learning with Occlum OSS on Azure Confidential Computing
This blog introduces you to a confidential computing solution for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) made available by Open-Source Software Occlum Library OS for Intel SGX and BigDL on the Azure cloud. This blog demonstrates the solution using a sample analytics application built for the NYTaxi dataset. This sample application leverages Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) components such as SGX Nodes for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft Azure Attestation, Azure Key Vault (AKV), etc, as well as Occlum LibOS and BigDL PPML.
