Security as a Foundational Element

We all know that every great recipe starts with a sauteed onion.

The onion is a foundational element of so many dishes we all love like French Onion soup, beef stew, pizza, pasta, even our Thanksgiving stuffing calls for onion!?

According to CISA, Secure by Design products are?those where the security of the customers is a core business requirement, not just a technical feature.

Security by Design is like the onion in the stew—an integral part.

Intel thought about the idea of what it means to be Secure by Design when they built the 5th Generation XEON scalable processor, named Emerald Rapids. Intel wanted to be sure to produce a product that would stand up to both current workloads running in private, public and hybrid cloud environments as well as future workloads that their customers would be using for AI.

In fact, in September 2023, Intel announced an attestation service as the first offering of a new portfolio of security software and services called Intel Trust Authority. Intel Trust Authority aims to offer a unified, independent assessment of secure enclave integrity, policy enforcement, and audit records anywhere Confidential Computing is deployed. It embodies Zero Trust principles by separating the assessment of the infrastructure’s trustworthiness from the provider of the infrastructure.

As an Intel Ambassador, I was thrilled to see Zero Trust principles being “baked” into the recipe! You can read more about Intel Trust Authority Here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security/trust-authority.html

AI is not a new technology. Like the peeling back the layers of the onion, Intel has long been tracking market data that had been emerging around client adoption of AI. Which companies are using it? How are they using it today and for what workloads? How will they be using it in the future? These are some of the questions that Intel had in mind when they were developing the 5th Generation XEON scalable processor.

According to Oreilly research, Generative AI has seen a more rapid adoption than any other technology in recent history. Two-thirds (67%) of those surveyed in a recent report said that their companies are currently using generative AI, and over a third of this group (38%) report that their companies have been working with AI for less than a year.

Intel realized that training and inference were the AI and ML functions that required hardware level security that could protect corporate data across workflows and pipelines. In the 5th Generation Xeon scalable processor, Intel built in security technology that could handle tasks such as compression and encryption of massive volumes of data.

The product brief for the Intel 5th Generation Xeon scalable processor is available here:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon/5th-gen-xeon-product-brief.html

I got a chance to sit down with Sarah Musick , who is a Cloud Solutions Architect for Intel.?

Sarah collaborates with the Fortune 200 in industries like retail, trading, and manufacturing on their compute strategy within the three Tier 1 hyperscalers to ensure they are optimized for both performance and cost in a workload-aware context. As a Cloud Solution Architect for Intel, Sarah’s work sits across clouds since Intel silicon is leveraged heavily by the providers, creating a unique vantage point on cloud trends and client usage.?

Sarah is a pretty good cook and understands the value of foundational elements in any recipe whether it be a good stew or a complex workload. She views cloud as a foundational technology on which clients are building even more AI intensive data workloads. ?As a working engineer myself, Sarah and I agree that every client is being challenged to reduce their capital and operating expense and still keep up with increasing workload demands.? Irrespective of economic uncertainty, clients are continuing to grow their cloud footprints and their usage.? The workload demands are getting progressively more sophisticated.? Its important for enterprise clients to eek out every last bit of performance from their infrastructure and have that stack continue to make a meaningful difference as they continue to grow. That’s one of the chief aspirations of Emerald Rapids.

We switched gears a bit and talked about what Sarah believes to be one of the under discussed opportunities in AI today which is around a CPU led deployment and the idea of moderately sized models. ??She’s right.? Customers are looking to grow their footprints in conditions that are scalable, sustainable and affordable.? A CPU led deployment combined with a moderately sized model might be just the way to allow an organization to learn without blowing the budget.

Our conversation went right back to one of my favorite topics, cybersecurity, and more specifically, AI security.? Customers have reservations in this area but Intel has stepped up from a tech leadership perspective here with Trust Authority, a suite of environment agnostic (cloud, hybrid, on-premises based) offerings that take advantage of what Intel has built into their processors and specifically into Emerald Rapids.? Sarah believes that Trust Authority is the next phase of Intel’s journey to serve customers with security based outcomes. I think it could be an AI security game changer for some clients.

It was great chatting with Sarah.? Check out our video for the full interview:

Video Link Here: https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/jopeterson1_cloudsecurity-aisecurity-intelambassador-activity-7160623077742039040-aarn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign#:~:text=What%20is%20Secure%20by%20Design,not%20just%20a%20technical%20feature.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231121995635/en/O%E2%80%99Reilly-Releases-2023-Generative-AI-in-the-Enterprise-Report-Revealing-Unprecedented-67-Rate-of-Adoption-Growing-Demand-for-AI-Programming-and-Data-Analysis-Skills

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Products-and-Solutions/Security/Intel-Trust-Authority-Attestation-Service-Now-in-General/post/1522091