Mark Novak

Mark has been involved in Confidential Computing since mid-2000’s – longer than the term itself has been in existence. Mark moonlights as the chair of the Confidential Computing Consortium’s Governance, Risk and Compliance SIG. His day job involves practicing enterprise security architecture for a multinational financial institution. In his previous job Mark was the architect for some of Microsoft’s Azure services and before that – worked as a software design engineer developing security features for the Windows operating system. Mark is named as a co-inventor on about 40 patents, some of them related to Confidential Computing.