Privacy-protecting Confidential Computing has come a long way since we introduced Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) five years ago. The technology, which can protect data while in use, strengthens a security gap beyond data encryption at rest and in transit. Since then, customers have used Confidential Computing to protect patient …

To help protect against evolving digital threats like ransomware and malicious deletions, last year, we introduced backup vault in the Google Cloud Backup and DR service, with support for Compute Engine VM backups. This provided immutable and indelible backup capabilities for mission-critical VMs, for both VM metadata and all …