2026 Security Emerging

Confidential Computing

What Gartner Predicted

Hardware-based security isolating workloads within trusted execution environments to protect sensitive data during processing, preventing even infrastructure providers from accessing information. Gartner predicts by 2029, over 75% of operations on untrusted infrastructure will be secured by confidential computing.

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Prediction Accuracy
TBD

Too early to score — TEEs are available from major cloud providers, but adoption is still early. Regulatory pressure and AI data privacy concerns are driving interest.