Fortanix’s Open Source Enclave Development Platform Enables
Developers to Easily Create Complex and More Secure Applications
Leveraging Rust’s Built-in Functionalities

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fortanix?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#Fortanixlt;/agt;–(RSA Conference 2019, booth No. 4518) – Fortanix® Inc., the Runtime
Encryption® company, launched its Enclave
Development Platform (EDP) today at the RSA Conference 2019. The
Fortanix EDP provides a native Rust-based SDK to write Intel® Software
Guard Extensions (Intel®
SGX) enclaves. EDP allows developers to leverage Rust’s built-in
functionalities to help create more secure applications.

The Fortanix EDP is an open source SDK that uses the state-of-the-art
security properties of the Rust language and Intel SGX to deliver a more
secure application development platform. The new Fortanix EDP is being
unveiled this week and demonstrated in the Fortanix RSA booth 4518 and
Intel RSA booth 6173.

The Fortanix EDP is fully integrated with the Rust compiler, which
allows developers to immediately use new features including non-lexical
lifetimes, futures and async/await syntax, and improved compile-time
speeds. Due to Rust’s stability, old code will continue to work after
the compiler is upgraded. The open source licensing of the Fortanix EDP
allows developers to build and sell or distribute the applications they
create.

“Fortanix delivers hardened enclaves and a new level of deterministic
security based on the hardware-based protections of Intel SGX,” said
Ambuj Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO of Fortanix. “By leveraging Rust we are
extending the protection used by multiple F100 companies to developer
environments. Developers are looking for solutions that deliver
deterministic security since systems are always under attack. The
combination of Intel SGX, Fortanix and Rust delivers these capabilities
for them.”

“Intel works to not only constantly deliver silicon security innovation
to market – but also to make it easier for developers to adopt security
innovations like Intel SGX to help improve the security of their
solutions,” said Jim Gordon, GM of Ecosystem, Business Development,
Strategy & Communication at Intel Corporation. “With Fortanix open
source Enclave Development Platform using a common development language
like Rust, developers can build their own differentiated solutions with
Intel SGX.”

Fortanix is helping solve today’s cloud security and data privacy
problem. By decoupling security from the infrastructure, Fortanix
removes complex and intractable security challenges experienced with
current solutions. Secure enclaves delivered with Fortanix’s patented Runtime
Encryption® technology and Intel® SGX deliver a new level of
deterministic security on premise, in hybrid environments, and on remote
clouds, helping keep data encrypted and protected even when systems are
compromised.

Availability and Pricing

The Fortanix EDP is available today for free from Fortanix at https://fortanix.com/products/runtime-encryption/edp/.

About Fortanix

Fortanix’s
mission is to solve cloud security and privacy challenges. Fortanix
allows customers to securely operate even the most sensitive
applications without having to trust the cloud. Fortanix provides unique
deterministic security by encrypting applications and data everywhere –
at rest, in motion, and in use with its Runtime Encryption® technology
built upon Intel® SGX. Fortanix secures F100 customers worldwide and
powers IBM Data Shield and Equinix SmartKey™ HSM-as-a-service. Fortanix
is a venture backed Gartner Cool Vendor headquartered in Mountain View,
Calif. For more information, see https://fortanix.com/.

Fortanix and Runtime Encryption are registered trademarks of Fortanix,
Inc. Self-Defending Key Management Service is a trademark of Fortanix,
Inc. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of
their respective companies.

Contacts

Dan Spalding
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960-9297