Securing Filesystems for Confidential Computing
Research tackles the overlooked storage gap in confidential computing: even with TEE-protected workloads, malicious cloud providers can roll back or fork filesystem state, undermining integrity guarantees.
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arXiv:2608.19924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Confidential computing protects applications inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), but it leaves storage vulnerable. Even with disk encryption, a malicious cloud provider can roll back, replay, fork, or tamper with disk state, breaking the integrity and freshness guarantees required by stateful applications. Existing solutions either assume trusted storage, incur high overheads, or push integrity logic into applications. We present ShieldF
Editorial Analysis
European enterprises moving sensitive workloads into confidential-computing enclaves may overestimate their protection if filesystem integrity against a malicious provider is not addressed.
Evaluate your confidential-computing architecture for storage-layer threats such as rollback and state-forking attacks.
Confidential computing protects in-memory workloads but may leave storage vulnerable — this research highlights a gap boards should ensure cloud teams address.
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