FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Intel® Tiber™ Secure Federated AI is a turnkey service designed to securely train AI models on private data using federated learning. It helps ensure that data always stays in the data owner's custody no matter where it is stored – on-premises, public cloud, or private cloud. The service uses hardware-based security, cryptographic methods, and algorithmic techniques to help ensure high levels of privacy and security for both models and data.

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning technique that enables AI models to be trained across multiple decentralized devices or servers holding local data samples, without moving them. Instead of sending data to a central server, federated training allows the model to be trained locally on each device, with only the model updates being shared and aggregated to improve the overall model. This method increasingly preserves data privacy and security, helps ensure compliance with data sovereignty laws, and offers enhanced protections of intellectual property.

Intel Tiber Secure Federated AI is built on OpenFL, an open source federated learning framework developed by Intel as part of the Linux Foundation LF AI and Data project. OpenFL has been widely used across industries such as insurance, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare, and is the only federated learning framework approved for use on the International Space Station.

By providing a turnkey implementation of OpenFL, Intel Tiber Secure Federated AI offers two key advantages for our customers:

  • Simplified configuration: Provides a user-friendly setup process that helps reduce the complexity and time required to establish federated learning environments.

  • Enhanced security features: Implements zero-trust security measures designed to protect sensitive data and model intellectual property.

Model builders require diverse, real-world datasets to create robust and generalizable AI models. Intel Tiber Secure Federated AI is designed to improve model development with secure, privacy-preserving techniques that help organizations collaboratively train models on distributed data.

Intel Tiber Secure Federated AI is designed to enable data collaboration by allowing institutions to train AI models using decentralized data while keeping it secure and private. The service uses hardware-based security (including confidential computing and hardware and workload attestation), cryptographic methods, and algorithmic techniques designed for high levels of privacy and security for both models and data.

Your data is stored locally at each data site or institution in a federated AI system, where data owners maintain full custody of their sensitive datasets without needing to centralize them. This decentralized approach helps ensure your data remains secure and private while allowing for collaborative model training and evaluation.

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