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CipherTrust RESTful Data Protection (CRDP Restful API) provides quantum-safe (PQC) application data protection and eliminates the need for developers to manage security details or regularly update data protection.
Updates are no longer made in code
Decrease Dev Involvement
- Close vulnerability gaps for sensitive data in realtime
- Keep on top of the latest data security without creating major projects
- Decrease complexity with bulk data protection
Increase Dev Capacity
- Reduce the drag on the Dev team
- Pass responsibility for data protection to the data security team via simplified APIs
- Gain a competitive edge over organizations that use traditional code
Separation of Duties
- Devs call data protection
- Data Security Admins control the what, the how, and the who via centrally managed policies
- Crypto agility enables Data Security Admins to change ciphers, parameters and keys in realtime
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Apply any type of data protection from a single interface
CRDP RESTful API supports tokenization, encryption and data generalization so that organizations can optimize data protection for each piece of data to decrease the risk of sensitive data being leaked. CRDP RESTful API supports format preservation to fit each organization’s current schema so that organizations don’t have to make changes in their environment.
CRDP RESTful API supports Data Masking and Redaction to reveal sensitive data on a need-to-know basis.
- Static Data Masking masks the data that doesn’t need to be accessed, revealing only the data relevant to the group – this is especially valuable for data analysts (pseudonymization) and increased performance for customer service (data is already masked when it arrives).
- Dynamic Data Masking is preferred when users with different access levels will be accessing the data and have rights to access different parts of the data.
- Redaction provides an absolute mask that shows a field with redacted data or hides the field.
Centralized Management
Audits become accurate, significantly faster and complete due to visibility of all policies on a single pane of glass showing where Connectors are deployed and the corresponding version numbers.
CipherTrust Manager provides a centralized view of every crypto agile Connector’s status—whether operational, offline, or requiring attention, alongside metrics such as health and last check-in time. Data Security Administrators can instantly drill down into individual Connectors for detailed information, configuration adjustments or automated remediation.
Benefits for each role
With CRDP RESTful API, you can have:
- More revenue, due to increased Dev capacity
- More security, due to the ability to close vulnerability gaps in realtime
- More innovation, due to not increasing the backlog
Close vulnerability gaps in < minute, Roadmap is respected (because there are no data protection fire drills taking Devs off revenue-generating projects).
Devs can remain focused on revenue-generating projects because they are not involved in updating data protection.
No downtime or fire drills required to update data protection.
Ultra secure (staying on top of your security posture by closing vulnerability gaps in < minute), Roadmap is respected (because there are no data protection fire drills taking Devs off revenue-generating projects).
Visibility into current security posture (single pane of glass, centralized-management, policy-based), No code change to make updates (removes dependency on DevOps for updates).
Reputation is protected, audits are passed, in compliance, does not add to technical debt.
Audits are passed, in compliance, empowered to update data protection whenever needed.
No need to learn crypto or do the data protection updates, does not add to technical debt.
To see CRDP RESTful API in action, check out our GitHub repository
Documentation & Resources
Frequently asked questions
Developers can call REST APIs to encrypt, tokenize, mask, or decrypt sensitive fields without embedding cryptographic libraries directly into applications. This approach helps simplify implementation while allowing security teams to centrally manage keys, policies, and cryptographic settings.
REST-based data protection is often preferred when organizations want to simplify application integration, standardize protection across multiple programming languages, accelerate development, or reduce the need for developers to manage cryptographic libraries within applications.
Use application data protection to reduce exposure of the most sensitive data throughout its lifecycle, you need to protect data beyond the database, some fields must remain searchable, or compliance regulations require separation of duties.
Use database encryption when your primary concern is physical theft or infrastructure compromise, you need rapid compliance coverage across many databases, most users/apps legitimately need access to the data, legacy apps cannot be modified, or simplicity is more important than granular protection.
Developers can call REST APIs to encrypt, tokenize, mask, or decrypt sensitive fields within an application. REST-based services provide standardized APIs allowing developers to focus on business functionality.
If data protection details are moved out of code and into centrally-managed policies, developers will not need to master cryptography or be involved beyond the initial coding.
Crypto agility is the ability to update ciphers, keys, and parameters in realtime. Crypto agility enables organizations to close vulnerability gaps in realtime to respond to emerging threats, comply with evolving regulations and new standards, reduce technical debt and prepare for post-quantum cryptography.
By separating cryptographic policy management from application code, organizations can centrally update ciphers, key rotation schedules, tokenization rules, and security policies without changing code.
Application-level protection can encrypt, tokenize, or mask sensitive fields before data is stored, shared, or sent to downstream services. Protecting sensitive data at entry helps reduce exposure across AI applications, analytics platforms, logs, databases, and other downstream environments.