Microsoft Deploys Confidential Computing To Protect $25B per Year in Customer Payments
Microsoft is a Fortune 15 company and among the world’s foremost software and cloud service providers. With their vast global customer base, the company processes millions of credit card payments for their products and services, totaling over $25 billion annually. To say that the security of their transaction system is critical to their business is an understatement.
To ensure the success of the vital function of processing payments, Microsoft’s Commerce Financial Services was empowered to design, build, and implement a payment gateway solution that delivers the highest degree of reliability, security, and compliance. For years, the company used application-specific, on-prem infrastructure for payment processing, but in 2023 the team began implementation to switch to a cloud-based solution using Azure Confidential Computing enabled by Intel SGX. After careful consideration, Microsoft determined that Azure Confidential Computing met all of their requirements for scalability, uptime, and cost-effectiveness, while also exceeding security and regulatory standards.
