Secure Sandboxing in a Post-Spectre World

Explore the landscape of secure sandboxing technologies in this 47-minute conference talk from the RSA Conference. Delve into the world of WebAssembly and the newly open-sourced Lucet, presented by Jonathan Foote, Principal Security Architect, and Tyler McMullen, Chief Technology Officer at Fastly. Gain insights into these cutting-edge solutions for isolating and containing untrusted code, particularly in the context of edge computing. Learn how these technologies offer stronger security measures and improved efficiency compared to traditional approaches, while also providing lower resource and performance costs for multi-tenant isolation of native code. Understand the implications of these advancements in a post-Spectre world and their potential impact on the future of secure edge computing. A basic understanding of edge computing is recommended to fully appreciate the content of this talk.