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Architecture diagram showing trust boundaries in a confidential computing system for biotech data processing
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Zero-Knowledge Architecture for Your Lab

Teddy Kalp
Teddy Kalp
Posted on Mar 13, 2026

You've decided your biotech data needs processing-time encryption. Now comes the hard part: choosing a key ownership model, defining trust boundaries, and building an architecture your compliance team and your bioinformaticians can both live with.


Hardware security module representing AWS Nitro Enclave isolation for biotech data processing
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AWS Nitro Enclaves for Biotech Data

Teddy Kalp
Teddy Kalp
Posted on Mar 01, 2026

Your genomics pipeline decrypts data into plaintext memory every time it runs. AWS Nitro Enclaves fix that. Here's how the architecture works and what it means for proteomics, genomics, and clinical workloads.


Secure server infrastructure representing confidential computing for biotech data
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Why Biotech Can't Trust the Cloud

Teddy Kalp
Teddy Kalp
Posted on Feb 03, 2026

A pharmaceutical company has 50TB of genome data and AWS could process it in days. But their legal team says no. Here's why biotech can't trust the cloud and how confidential computing and hardware-enforced security fixes it.