Opaque Systems

Our CEO Rishabh Poddar gave a presentation at UseNIX Security on recent work advancing the state of the art for privacy-preserving collaborative analytics using secure multiparty computation. See talk and paper here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/poddar

Senate: A Maliciously-Secure MPC Platform for Collaborative Analytics | USENIX Authors: Rishabh Poddar and Sukrit Kalra, UC Berkeley; Avishay Yanai, VMware Research; Ryan Deng, Raluca Ada Popa, and Joseph M. Hellerstein, UC BerkeleyAbstract: Many organizations stand to benefit from pooling their data together in order to draw mutually beneficial insights—e.g., for fraud de...

Here is an article about "How to Run Apache Spark SQL on Encrypted Data" with our open source MC2 platform! It's a nice intro into using and OpaqueSQL to securely query data.

https://dev.to/opaque/how-to-run-spark-sql-on-encrypted-data-1896

How to Run Spark SQL on Encrypted Data Introducing Opaque SQL, an open-source platform for securely running Spark SQL queries on encrypted...

We're very excited to welcome Saharsh Agrawal to Opaque! As an engineer, he has been passionate about security and privacy, having done work and research in the areas of decentralized security and secure enclaves. In his free-time,he's been learning Italian preparing for his travel. Welcome Saharsh! 🎉🎉🎉

Our software engineer Octavian Sima wrote a comprehensive hands-on guide on running Apache Spark SQL on encrypted data with our open source MC2 platform on Towards Data Science

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-run-spark-sql-on-encrypted-data-c10adf64619

Check out our Co-founder Raluca Ada Popa's talk at the AI & Cyber session Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, Cyber Week on enabling learning on confidential data and how Opaque’s cutting-edge technology advances the field.