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Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud
Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud delivers an insightful and practical new take on what it means to trust in the context of computer and network security and the impact on the emerging field of Confidential Computing....
Join Profian
Join Profian
Hi, my name is Mike Bursell. I’m the CEO and co-founder of Enarx and Profian. Profian is a company based in the U.S., but I’m based in the U.K., near Cambridge. We currently have 8 people across 7...
November 23, 2021 | By Mike Bursell
Confidential Computing: logging and debugging
Confidential Computing: logging and debugging
Log entries and other error messages can be very useful, but they can also provide information to other parties – sometimes information which you’d prefer they didn’t have. This is particularly true when you are thinking about Confidential...
November 16, 2021 | By Mike Bursell
Meet the founder – Nathaniel
Meet the founder – Nathaniel
Why did you start Enarx? Enarx is about building primitives for trust in the cloud at scale. It’s really hard today to have strong assurances about computing trust in the cloud because it just simply wasn’t built for...
November 5, 2021 | By Nathaniel McCallum
Meet the founder – Mike
Meet the founder – Mike
Why did you start Enarx? Around the end of 2018, Nathaniel and I were working for Red Hat, and came up with an idea to improve how Trusted Execution Environments. Red Hat were very supportive, and we founded...
October 13, 2021 | By Mike Bursell
Profian joins the Confidential Computing Consortium
Profian joins the Confidential Computing Consortium
We’re pleased to announce that Profian has joined the Confidential Computing Consortium. Two years ago, the Linux Foundation formed the Confidential Computing Consortium, a community dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of Confidential Computing. Jim Zemlin, executive...
October 4, 2021 | By Nick Vidal
Confidential Computing Startup Profian Secures $5 Million In Seed Round in Order to Make Cloud Computing More Secure
Confidential Computing Startup Profian Secures $5 Million In Seed Round in Order to Make Cloud Computing More Secure
Profian, a Confidential Computing platform focused on bespoke open source solutions, announced today that it has secured $5 million in seed funding. Source: Business Wire Link: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210930005465/en/Confidential-Computing-Startup-Profian-Secures-5-Million-In-Seed-Round-in-Order-to-Make-Cloud-Computing-More-Secure
Introducing Profian
Introducing Profian
We are immensely proud and excited to announce the launch of Profian, a start-up company to create Confidential Computing products and services based on the Enarx project (https://enarx.dev).  We’re a truly global and distributed company, with our CEO...
September 30, 2021 | By Mike Bursell
Enarx and a New Custodian
Enarx and a New Custodian
The Enarx project has a rich history around openness and collaboration. It was a key project in the foundation of the Confidential Computing Consortium from the Linux Foundation and played an important role in the Bytecode Alliance, the...
September 27, 2021 | By Nick Vidal
What Is WebAssembly
What Is WebAssembly
Although WebAssembly brings languages other than HTML, CSS and JavaScript to the browser, it’s not a JavaScript replacement and it takes a very different approach from Flash, Active X plugins and other techniques that encapsulated non-web code for...