Work place: Cloud Security, S&P Global, New York, USA
E-mail: gaurav.saxena@gmail.com
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Gaurav Saxena is a Cloud Security Leader with over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud computing, and enterprise technology transformation. He currently leads cloud security initiatives for global organisations, specialising in cloud security architecture, governance, risk management, compliance, and secure cloud adoption across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. His areas of interest include Zero Trust architecture, DevSecOps, identity and access management, AI/Generative AI security, and emerging cloud security technologies. Gaurav has extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale security frameworks that enable innovation while ensuring regulatory compliance and risk reduction. His research and professional contributions focus on advancing secure cloud ecosystems and addressing evolving cybersecurity challenges in modern digital environments.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmsc.2026.03.05, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2026
Artificial-intelligence workloads increasingly process proprietary and personally identifiable data, yet conventional security controls protect data only at rest and in transit, leaving computation itself exposed. This paper presents CC-Shield, a five-layer confidential-computing architecture that combines hardware trusted execution environments (Intel SGX, AMD SEV-SNP), differentially private federated aggregation, remote attestation, encrypted model lifecycle management, and LSTM-based anomaly detection into a single, formally analysed defence-in-depth stack. We derive a closed-form leakage bound that jointly composes TEE side-channel capacity and differential-privacy noise, prove three attack-resistance theorems covering membership inference, model inversion, and active-adversary integrity, and connect security overhead to system throughput via a queuing-theoretic performance model. On ResNet-50/ImageNet, BERT-base/SST-2, and a clinical MLP on MIMIC-III, CC-Shield with differential privacy (ε=1) reduces membership-inference attack success to 51.8% (statistically indistinguishable from the 50% random-chance baseline at a 95% confidence half-width of approximately 1.0 percentage point over 10,000 attack queries), versus 71.3% for an unprotected baseline, while introducing only 11.9%-13.9% inference latency overhead – more than three orders of magnitude lower than a homomorphic-encryption baseline. A seven-dimension qualitative comparison against five prior frameworks shows CC-Shield is the only approach satisfying data-in-use protection, computation integrity, training- and inference-time protection, quantum resistance, sub-15% latency overhead, and a formal security proof simultaneously.
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