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title: "Confidential computing and the new regulatory focus on data in use"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/confidential-computing-and-the-new-regulatory-focus-on-data-in-use-avkdyvleq
source_url: https://ubuntu.com/blog/confidential-computing-and-the-new-regulatory-focus-on-data-in-use
type: article
source: "Ubuntu"
published: 2026-07-25T13:27:59.908Z
updated: 2026-07-25T16:18:28.063Z
tags: ["security", "ubuntu", "regulatory-compliance"]
reading_time: 14
upvotes: 0
comments: 1
language: en
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# Confidential computing and the new regulatory focus on data in use

**[Ubuntu](https://daily.dev/sources/ubuntu)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Confidential computing is gaining regulatory relevance as frameworks like NIST CSF 2.0, GDPR, DORA, NIS2, and the EU AI Act increasingly address data protection during processing — not just at rest or in transit. Hardware-backed trusted execution environments (TEEs) reduce the trusted computing base for sensitive workloads in cloud, edge, and hybrid environments. Regulators across finance, healthcare, and AI sectors are converging on the need for runtime data protection, and international standards bodies (ISO/IEC, NIST, China's GB/T) are formalizing confidential computing as a security category. Canonical positions Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with integrated support for AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX as a platform for deploying confidential computing at scale.

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**@trevorsuna** · 0 upvotes

> Protecting data at rest and in transit leaves a real gap while it’s being processed. TEEs help, but attestation, key release policy, and patching the host still need to be part of the same runbook.

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