For virtually every organization today, the adoption of multiple cloud services continues to expand. A growing number of organizations are aware of the Shared Responsibility Model for cloud security, with its definitive statement that across all cloud consumption models: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud consumers are responsible for the security of their data stored and used in the cloud. In every yearly edition of the Thales Data Threat Report, organizations say that encryption is the right way to protect data in the cloud.
Cloud Providers increasingly offer their own encryption services as a convenience to their customers. But, the imperative for customer management of encryption keys for cloud provider encryption keys is growing as fast as cloud consumption. A growing number of cloud providers offer “Bring Your Own Key” (BYOK) services. BYOK enables customer-controlled cloud key management. The challenge of BYOK and cloud key management depends on the number of clouds and keys to be managed or brought to the cloud.
Cloud key management may be considered in various ways:
Across multiple clouds and multiple workloads each requiring their own master key, the above steps can become cumbersome.
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager from Thales combines support for cloud provider BYOK APIs, cloud key management automation, and key usage logging and reporting, to provide cloud consumers with strong controls over encryption key life cycles for data encrypted by cloud services.
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager supports a growing list of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS providers. SaaS solutions include Microsoft Office365, Salesforce.com and Salesforce Sandbox. Supported IaaS/PaaS solutions include Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure China National Cloud, Microsoft Azure Stack, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services.
Enjoy Enhanced IT Efficiency
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager centralizes encryption key management from multiple environments, presenting all supported clouds and even multiple cloud accounts in a single browser tab. Advanced cloud key management capabilities include automated key rotation, key expiration handling, and cloud key vault synchronization. These dramatically reduce the time required for cloud key life cycle management. CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager goes well beyond support for BYOK with full key lifecycle management of native cloud keys as well as keys generated by its key sources.
Gain Strong Key Control and Security
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) services enable customers to separate key management from provider-controlled encryption, offering a crucial layer of separation of duties and control. CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager delivers key generation, separation of duties, reporting, and key lifecycle management that help fulfill internal and industry data protection mandates, with optional FIPS 140-2-certified secure key sources.
Fulfill Best Practices
Separate encryption key control from data encryption and decryption operations for compliance, best security practices and control of your data. Gain operational insights on encryption key usage with dashboards, reports and logs provided by CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager.
Meet Organizational Needs with Flexible Deployment Options
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager is available in multiple form factors to meet any organization’s needs. Both CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager and its key sources are available in all-software, cloud-friendly offerings and may be found in several cloud provider marketplaces for fast instantiation. Further, deployment in any cloud is wholly separated from cloud provider access, and, keys can be managed in the cloud in which the solution is deployed as well as any other reachable, supported cloud. For example:
Many similar combinations are possible!
Inherently Automation-Friendly
In addition to its internal automation features which themselves provide crucial IT efficiency gains, operations for both CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager and its key sources may be fully implemented through RESTful API’s.
Key Life Cycle Automation
With the click of a button or an API request, keys are marked for automated key rotation. From then on, CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager performs key rotation automatically with comprehensive logging for IT efficiency and enhanced data security. Key rotation may be specified for keys without expiration dates, or specifically for keys to be rotated prior to their expiration dates. Multiple schedules per cloud are available.
Strong Encryption Key Security
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager leverages the security of CipherTrust Manager or the Vormetric Data Security Manager to create keys. Secure storage is provided for clouds that deliver backup keys which can mitigate accidental key deletion in cloud consoles. You control full key metadata control during upload and for keys in use.
True Multi-Cloud Support
With support for Amazon Web Services and AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack, Azure GovCloud, and the Azure China and Germany sovereign clouds, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, and Salesforce.com, CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager keeps you in control of encrypted data across multiple clouds from a single pane of glass, including across multiple accounts. For example, CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager retrieves from the cloud provider the supported key types and then prevents upload of an incorrect key type. The solution is engineered to work with each cloud’s multi-account key management suites, including AWS inter-account key sharing and Azure “B2B” support.
Comprehensive Key Management
Deploy CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager with any number of keys already created at the cloud provider. Create cloud-native keys in the cloud console as needed. CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager will automatically synchronize, at intervals you can define, its key database with the provider’s. Key attributes such as expiration rules and usage options are all maintained. You can request creation of cloud-native keys, as well as upload BYOK-keys, from the CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager console. If cloud provider rotation rules for native keys are insufficient, you can rotate keys under the control of CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager.
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager goes well beyond Cloud Bring Your Own Key: It is a comprehensive cloud key life cycle manager.
The Compliance Tools You Need
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager has the full range of logs and reports you need for fast compliance reporting, including a per-cloud operational logs and a range of pre-packaged key activity reports.
Support for Emerging Technologies
With support for Salesforce.com cached keys, CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager adds Hold Your Own Key technology to BYOK. As a component of its RESTful APIs for the next level of automation, the product includes support for Azure Service Principle and AWS Assumed Role authentication mechanisms.
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In two minutes, learn of your responsibility to protect data in the cloud, the challenges of multicloud key management, and how CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager can help you!
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