👉 Confidential computing is a technology that enables secure processing of data while it remains encrypted, ensuring that sensitive information stays protected even during computation. This is achieved through hardware-based security mechanisms such as Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), which create isolated, secure areas within a processor where data is encrypted and only authorized processes can access it. By leveraging these secure enclaves, confidential computing allows organizations to perform computations on encrypted data without revealing the data's contents to unauthorized parties, thereby maintaining privacy and security in cloud environments and other distributed computing scenarios.