By working together, the companies say they’re better able to find security flaws in Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing infrastructure.
chips have particularly dire potential ramifications because these processors are designed to be immutable and provide a “root of trust” that all the other components of a system can rely on. If hackers can exploit a flaw in security chips, they can poison a system at that root and potentially gain undetectable control.
“When we find something and know that the safety is getting better, that's the best,” says Nelly Porter, group product manager of Google Cloud. “It’s not pointing fingers, it’s combined effort to fix things. Adversaries have unbelievable capability, and their innovation is growing, so we need not only to catch up but to get ahead of them.”
Porter underscores that the partnership with AMD is unusual because the two companies have been able to build up enough trust that the chipmaker is willing to let Google's teams analyze closely guarded source code. Brent Hollingsworth, AMD's director of the Epyc software ecosystem, points out that the relationship also creates space for pushing the boundaries on what types of attacks researchers are able to test.
are increasingly focusing on as well, but one that goes beyond the traditional security guarantees chipmakers offer.“Anybody who’s written software, anybody who’s created hardware, knows that it’s impossible to be perfect,” Hollingsworth says. “Over the years that we’ve been working together with Google, we’ve been providing them as much access as we possibly can and thinking about the problem from two different sides.
The audit specifically delved into the defenses of the AMD Secure Processor and the firmware of the AMD technology known as “
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