Microsoft, working with chipmaker Intel Corp., is offering a cloud-computing service with more powerful encryption to secure data from hackers — and protect it from secret government data-gathering.
Called Azure confidential computing, the technology encrypts data while it is in use — which is when most security breaches occur, according to Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich.
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