AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud announced new security services, product upgrades, and acquisitions in 2022.

AT&T adds ‘SASE Plus’ to its network; Ericsson says metaverse is driving a push for 5G QoS; and GitLab touts the Cloud Seed tool.

It's a full week of events with SDxCentral's Security in the Cloud-First Era, Google Cloud's Next, and Microsoft Ignite.

Google claims financial, Web3, health care, and medical institutions can benefit from its new Confidential Space.

“Our vision is computing should be confidential all the time,” Intel's Nikhil Deshpande said.

Users appreciate Constellation's Kubernetes-first approach, but that characteristic makes it just as complex as Kubernetes itself.

The collaboration aims to accelerate development of homomorphic encryption technologies within AppsFlyer's Privacy Cloud platform.

GitHub recruits Jacob DePriest as VP of security operations; Intel’s Rob Perez says confidential computing is all about “trust, but verify.”

Software security alone is no longer sufficient to protect users from cyberthreats, but silicon can help, Intel's Mike Nordquist said.

Arm announced technical specifications for its Confidential Compute Architecture; Illumio reached a $2.75 billion valuation; and ONF shared three branches of its private network project.

“This is intended to be an architecture for all markets spanning cloud to mobile and automotive to IoT,” Arm's Mark Knight said.

While performance gains remain a key promise of the new architecture, security and AI are for the first time first-class citizens with the launch of Armv9.

“The pandemic was the heyday that attackers were looking for,” said Limor Kessem, executive security advisor at IBM Security.

By building security capabilities into silicon, Intel claims it can eliminate performance barriers to implement stronger protections in software.

AT&T and Verizon 5G deployments boosted OpenStack work; Telefónica 5G tapped Juniper security; and Akamai got more SASE.

Intel's upcoming Xeon Scalable chips will gain secure enclaves, full memory encryption, firmware protections, and improved cryptographic performance.

Google's mobile edge cloud allows operators to build virtualized network functions and cloud-native functions for the core, evolved packet core, and radio access network.

Google also rolled out BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud analytics service that extends BigQuery across on-premises environments, rival cloud AWS and, coming soon, Azure.

Anjuna’s software automatically encrypts data in runtime, at rest, and on the network with no changes to the application code or software development kit required.

Nokia won a $450M 5G deal with Taiwan Mobile; Facebook joined the Confidential Computing Group; and cryptojackers mined for Monero.

The group, which formed nine months ago, has grown 60% since then and added 10 new members in the last five months.

The new Azure confidential computing service allows companies to process data in hardware-based secure enclaves called trusted execution environments.

IBM and Fortanix doubled down on confidential computing; Google Anthos built a bridge to AWS; and Arista baked AI into its WiFi software.

IBM Cloud Data Shield is based on Fortanix’s technology that encrypts data at rest, in transit, and while in use, thus allowing general-purpose computation on encrypted data.