emergenCITY is inviting to the upcoming Distinguished Lecture with Ivica Rimac, Senior Researcher and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs. He is going to talk about key concepts of confidential computing and will explore how a confidentiality-offering service can be deployed by leveraging the strengths of both process-based and VM-based TEEs.

Title: “Unlocking Confidential Computing: A Hybrid Approach to Secure Service Deployment”
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024, 4.15 p.m.
Speaker: Dr.-Ing. Ivica Rimac, Senior Researcher and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs
Venue: S2|20, room 09/10, Campus City Centre North, Kantplatz, TU Darmstadt

About the lecture:

Confidential computing, enabled by hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), safeguards applications and data from unauthorized access or modification during execution. This enhanced security significantly strengthens the protection of sensitive and regulated data for organizations. This talk will first discuss key concepts of confidential computing. Then, we will explore how a confidentiality-offering service can be deployed by leveraging the strengths of both process-based and VM-based TEEs. This approach aims to simultaneously deliver runtime integrity, ease of use, and flexibility.

About the Speaker:

Dr.-Ing. Ivica Rimac is a Senior Researcher and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs. His research interests encompass the broad fields of computer networks and distributed systems. He is currently focused on confidential computing, with his work on Duet for verifiable service deployments earning the Best Paper with Artifacts award at SysTEX ‘24. Prior to this, he led a team in developing and open-sourcing KNIX, a high-performance serverless computing platform featuring process-based lightweight function execution and container-based application isolation. His patented caching algorithm is used in the solution of a leading provider of carrier-grade video streaming.

Further information about the speaker: www.bell-labs.com