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Intel® Trust Authority

Trust the foundation behind your most valuable data.

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What are the benefits of Intel Trust Authority?

Independent

Verify trusted environments independently of the infrastructure provider, with separate validation of platform authenticity and integrity.

Easy to deploy

Set, monitor, and verify security policies across clouds without the cost and complexity of building your own attestation service.

Free to use

Intel Trust Authority is a free, independent attestation platform with optional paid support, helping CSPs and ISVs accelerate adoption of confidential computing.

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Zero Trust attestation service

Intel Trust Authority is a zero-trust attestation service that helps verify apps, data, and workloads are running in trusted cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. It validates infrastructure, applications, and AI/ML workloads using Intel confidential computing Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) on CPUs and GPUs.

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Certified for information security, cybersecurity, and privacy protection

ISO 27001:2022 certification helps put Zero Trust within reach. Designed for public cloud flexibility with private cloud security, our independent attestation service is committed to delivering best practices in security controls, information technology, and cybersecurity to our clients and their customers.

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What partners are saying

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Google Cloud

“Google-Intel partnership has been a catalyst for democratizing confidential computing. Intel Trust Authority’s free external attestation verifier, combined with your team’s kernel upstream contributions, has dramatically lowered adoption barriers for our joint customers.”

Nelly Porter
Managing Director of Product Management, GCP Confidential Computing and Encryption

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Microsoft Azure

“With innovations across security, Intel will enable Azure customers using VMs based on Intel® SGX technology or Intel® TDX technology to have a choice for their attestation verifiers with a new service that attests to the provenance of the confidential computing environment with Intel Trust Authority.”

Mark Russinovich
Fellow and CTO

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Thales

“Our collaboration enables security conscious organizations to share data safely end-to-end while preserving privacy, confidentiality, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Confidential computing is especially important for highly regulated industries where data security is paramount to safeguarding the privacy of the information.”

Todd Moore
Vice President

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Intel® Trust Authority Customer Portal

Intel Trust Authority verifies the trustworthiness of compute assets, including infrastructure, data, applications, endpoints, and AI/ML workloads.

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Frequently asked questions

Confidential computing is an approach focused on helping to secure data in use. The efforts can enable encrypted data to be processed in memory while lowering the risk of exposing it to the rest of the system, thereby reducing the potential for sensitive data to be exposed while providing a higher degree of control and transparency for users. At the core of confidential computing is an isolated, hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) where trusted software can access confidential data. Data is only released to the TEE for decryption & processing when authorized by the owner's key. The TEE can be verified through a process called attestation, which helps assure users their TEE is genuine and correctly configured.

A trusted execution environment (TEE) is a secure area of a main processor. It protects code and data loaded inside with respect to confidentiality and integrity. Data integrity – prevents unauthorized entities from altering data when any entity outside the TEE processes data, Code integrity – the code in the TEE cannot be replaced or modified by unauthorized entities.

Attestation of a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is the dynamic measuring of the health of the isolated execution technology and is based on building a trust chain from the manufacturer to the last power cycle of the device.

Intel Trust Authority is a Zero Trust attestation SaaS that verifies the trustworthiness of compute assets in the cloud. Intel Trust Authority attests to the validity of Intel Confidential Computing environments, also known as Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).

Intel Trust Authority is now free to use for customers using TEEs on select cloud service providers. US and European customers can visit the customer portal for more information on how to get started.

CSP: Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud.

ISV: Thales, Proximus.

Intel Trust Authority offers an operator-independent attestation service that helps provide end users with confidence that the TEE provided by the CSP is trustworthy. End users can encrypt their application and not release the decryption key, nor decrypt it, until the attestation token is received. End users can maintain their own KMS on-prem or depend on CSP-provided key vaults, such as Azure Key Vault, to manage these encryption and decryption keys. Therefore, KMS is an integral part of the customer solution, and Intel Trust Authority is designed to interoperate with it.

Intel Trust Authority has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification. The Confidential Computing attestation service is committed to delivering best practices in security controls, information technology and cybersecurity to our clients and their customers. For more information: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/quality/corporate-certifications/directory.html

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