What is Fortanix Confidential AI for CNCF Confidential Containers (CoCo)?

Computers normally have to decrypt data to work on it, which can leave sensitive data and AI models open to unauthorized software or administrators on the same machine. Confidential computing addresses this by running computations inside a hardware-based trusted execution environment (TEE), which receives data only once it is judged trustworthy. Fortanix Confidential AI applies this idea to AI workloads: the maker describes it as keeping data and the AI model's intellectual property inaccessible to the underlying infrastructure, and says it checks (attests) each workload and releases keys only to verified environments. The maker says workloads can run in confidential virtual machines or in Confidential Containers (CoCo), an open source project that brings confidential computing to cloud native environments. Fortanix also offers a Confidential Computing Manager as a single management console (control plane) for such environments.

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