John Manferdelli leads confidential computing incubation in VMware’s Office of the CTO. He is a member of the Defense Science Board, chair of the National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience, and has been a member of DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Study Group. Prior to VMware, he held security-related roles as a professor of the practice and executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University; engineering director for Production Security Development at Google; senior principal engineer at Intel Corporation and co-PI for the Intel Science and Technology Center for Secure Computing at the University of California at Berkeley; and distinguished engineer at Microsoft. At Microsoft, he was also responsible for the development of the next-generation secure computing base technologies and the rights management capabilities currently integrated into Windows, for which he was the original architect. Manferdelli has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series, the concept of Confidential Computing and its potential benefits and some of the technical underpinnings...
