Thales Announces CipherTrust Data Security Platform as-a-Service
Thales, the leading global technology and security provider,
today announced the launch of its CipherTrust Data Security Platform on a
cloud-based, as-a-service subscription model. Today’s announcement demonstrates
Thales’ commitment to give customers the choice and flexibility to consume the
platform’s data discovery and classification, encryption, key management and
secrets management capabilities in an as-a-service or traditional hardware or
software offering. Thales CipherTrust Cloud Key Management (CCKM) is the first
offering now available as an as-a-service offering.
Thales’s CipherTrust Data Security Platform supports customers in
reducing the impact of external threats and overcoming operational complexity
by simplifying data security operations across on-premises and cloud
environments. The platform’s powerful key lifecycle management and data
security tools help to reduce business risk and management time significantly
and provide access to the platforms’ unparalleled partner ecosystem of
integrations with leading enterprise storage, server, database, application,
and cloud vendors.
According to Gartner, by 2025, 30% of enterprises will have adopted
broad spectrum Data Security Platform, up from less than 10% in 2021, due to
the pent up demand for higher levels of data security and the rapid increase in
product capabilities.1 Today, the CipherTrust Data Security Platform is already
delivering powerful outcomes for customers. Customers say they realized a 70%
reduction in encryption and key management effort, a 35% reduction in impact of
a data breach, and 50% reduction in interface development effort. This is
according to a Thales commissioned Forrester Total Economic Impact report on the benefits of
the CipherTrust Data Security Platform.
By introducing the CipherTrust Data Security Platform as-a-service,
Thales gives customers a choice of key management deployment options from
virtual machine, physical appliance, and hybrid cluster to include a
cloud-based subscription service – all backed by a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 Thales
Luna Cloud Hardware Security Module (HSM). The flexible model removes the need
for upfront investment in data security infrastructure and auto-scales to
support capacity changes, ensuring high availability and resilience to meet
industry-comparable Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Regular updates to the
service give customers on-demand access to the latest CipherTrust Data Security
Platform offerings without disrupting business operations and provide real-time
maintenance of CipherTrust instances.
Using CCKM, an industry-leading multi-cloud encryption key management
solution, customers can centralize lifecycle management of keys as they migrate
sensitive data to the cloud. Compatible with all the major cloud service
providers, CCKM includes support for cloud native keys as well as multiple
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) and Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) services such as AWS XKS
and Google Cloud EKM, which allow enterprises to control and maintain keys
securely outside the cloud and separate from the CSP. Visibility across
multi-cloud environments helps CCKM customers improve efficiency and comply
with data protection mandates like digital sovereignty.
Customers can sign up for CipherTrust Data Security Platform
as-a-service offerings through Thales’s Data Protection on Demand Marketplace,
a cloud-based online marketplace that provides a wide range of cloud data
security, HSM and key management services. This platform as-a-service will
provide a single pane of glass view to enterprises and is currently hosted in
data centers in Europe and North America, with additional data security
services and regions to follow.
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