When moving your data to the cloud – especially your most sensitive data – you need assurance that you will not lose visibility or power over how and when that data is used, shared, managed and available. Every enterprise needs a trusted third-party assurance service with a trust authority and attestation for confidence in moving sensitive data to the cloud.

This is where Intel can help. Code-named Project Amber, this upcoming service is an innovative approach to objective third-party attestation. It is a SaaS-based implementation of a trust authority that provides remote verification of the trustworthiness of a compute asset based on attestation and policy Initially, Project Amber will verify the authenticity and integrity of Intel trusted execution environments (TEEs), but the vision extends to much broader device verification, like IPUs, GPUs, platform roots of trust, and beyond. Project Amber is architected as a cloud-native microservice platform running on a managed Kubernetes service, with appropriate abstractions on different cloud infrastructure platforms, on-prem, and edge locations.

Key Benefits:

Independent: Verification of trustworthiness by an independent authority provides increased assurances to users, a solid security foundation for confidential computing and enables new usages in AI, multi-party compute and federated learning.

Scalable Cloud-agnostic SaaS, multi-cloud workload support: Project Amber enables organizations to more securely scale and move workloads across a wider range of edge, on-premise, and cloud environments — all with better protection for in-use data and intellectual property.

Turnkey: Project Amber liberates enterprises from the need to build and maintain a complex and expensive attestation system. This would enable them to focus on their core business.

How it works:

• Customer subscribes to the service and obtains Project Amber service API keys.

• Customer downloads and integrates Project Amber Client Agent in their workload

• Customer requests TEE instantiation in the cloud (such as Azure) as normal

• Workload executes in the cloud after Project Amber service provides an attestation verification token for the TEE

“With the introduction of Project Amber, Intel is taking confidential computing to the next level in our commitment to a zero-trust approach to attestation and the verification of compute assets at the network, edge and in the cloud.” – Greg Lavender, Intel Chief Technology Officer

Plan Overview:

Project Amber is in its pilot phase and will be available to a select set of customers to further refine and optimize Project Amber’s capabilities and market model. We want to hear from you!

Please contact Intel at ProjectAmber@intel.com to learn how you might be able to participate in the pilot program.