Speakers: Sebastian Overhage, Amin Faez 

Cloud services have become an integral part of modern IT landscapes. At the same time, their use presents companies with three key challenges: How can the confidentiality of sensitive data be preserved? How can companies retain control over their data and its processing? And how can dependencies on individual cloud providers be reduced?

Modern cryptographic techniques offer new ways to address these challenges. They can protect data not only during storage and transmission but also reduce the level of trust that must be placed in individual providers and system components during the actual processing of data. In practice, however, there is one major obstacle: To take advantage of these capabilities, existing applications and syst ...