Thales Announces new Security-as-a-Service for Centralised Control of Encryption Keys

ย CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager delivers full security, visibility, and management for enterprises to control their โ€œbring your ownโ€ encryption keys

Cambridge, UK. โ€“ Oct. 26, 2017ย โ€“ Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, announcesย CipherTrust Cloud Key Managerย for support of Microsoft Azure Key Vault and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Key Management Service (KMS) bring your own key (BYOK) capabilities. The solution allows users of these dominant public cloud solutions to meet compliance mandates and further protect their most sensitive data by creating and managing encryption keys separate from their cloud providerโ€™s infrastructure.ย 

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To help save time and money, aย growing numberย of enterprises are eschewing legacy technologies in favour of cloud and SaaS environments. While these technologies are digitally transforming businesses, they present challenges: enterprise data is fair game for cybercriminals regardless of operating environments, and meeting compliance and best practices requirements isnโ€™t always straightforward. In response, enterprises are developing encryption strategies to better protect and control their data. While effective, this presents a new hurdle; when considering that many enterprises utiliseย multiple cloud providers, the management of encryption keys can prove difficult.

ย Thales CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager offers a number of benefits to help enterprises control and secure encryption keys in multi-cloud environments, including:

ยทย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Providing unique, enterprise-ready encryption key lifecycle management spanning an ever-growing list of leading cloud vendors (Salesforce, Microsoft Azure, AWS)

ยทย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Centralising multi-cloud encryption key creation and management separate from the cloud providerโ€™s control with a choice of a SaaS or on-premises deployment

ยทย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Achieving compliance with a FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria certified key store with visibility into how, when and by whom encryption keys are used through logging and a set of built-in usage reportsย 

Peter Galvin, VP of Strategy at Thales eSecurity says:

โ€œOrganisations are struggling to manage an exploding number of encryption keys. CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager puts control in the hands of enterprises rightfully concerned about the compliance and data protection challenges inherent in multi-cloud environments. The intuitive and well-designed as-a-service offering makes managing encryption keys simpler by eliminating the need to architect, purchase and deploy hardware. Through an easy to use web interface, organisations can simply create, rotate and backup keys in a growing list of cloud providersโ€.

 

ย Sumedh Barde, Group Program Manager at Microsoft says:

โ€œOur largest customers have heterogeneous application environments. Managing keys across these diverse locations is complex. CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager solves this problem by giving our customers a single pane of glass to discover, manage, and monitor their encryption keys across Microsoft Azure and Office 365, as well as other locations. The solution leverages Microsoftโ€™s native key service, Azure Key Vault, so our customers continue to get the best experience from their apps in the Microsoft cloud. All of this makes the Thales solution a welcome addition to the Microsoft Azure security ecosystemโ€.ย 

Available as a service, or for on-premises deployments, CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager supports Microsoft Azure, including Office 365, as well as Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption and Amazon Web Services. For more information, please clickย here.

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