Busting Top Cloud Encryption Myths
And Why You Need External Key Management
Cloud adoption is essential for modern organizations, driving digital transformation efforts and enabling scalability and innovation. However, as with so many technological advancements, the shift to cloud infrastructure has introduced a slew of security challenges, particularly surrounding data protection. Most notably, organizations assume that relying solely on the encryption provided by the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) is sufficient, but this approach presents significant risks, especially in complex, multi-cloud environments.
In this eBook, we’ll address the key myths surrounding cloud encryption and the necessity of external key management. We’ll debunk the idea that CSP-provided encryption is universally sufficient, highlighting the risks of insider access, lack of separation of duties, and the complexities of multi-cloud deployments.
We’ll also tackle the myth that external key management (EKM) hinders cloud adoption by demonstrating how it actually streamlines operations, enhances security, and provides agility. Then, we’ll clarify that external key management is not just for regulated industries but is, in fact, a crucial security best practice for all organizations seeking to protect sensitive data in the cloud. Finally, we’ll address the dangerous misconception that an organization’s data can be “not sensitive enough” to warrant external key management.
Ultimately, this eBook advocates for external key management as a solution that provides enhanced control, strengthens security posture, ensures compliance, and enables secure and efficient cloud adoption.
What you need to know about External Key Management
Operational Simplicity
Centralized policy and encryption key management provide robust control over your data, ensuring consistent security across all physical and virtual servers, both on-site and off-premises.
Minimize Risk
Meet compliance and best practice requirements for protecting data from external threats or malicious insiders with proven, high-performance and scalable data encryption.
Security Agility
Quickly address new data security requirements and compliance mandates by having a solution in place ready and able to protect all sensitive data.
Compliance
Data encryption, user and process access controls, data access logs, FIPS 140-2 compliant key management, and strong administration policies all contribute to satisfying compliance mandates and regulation requirements.
Cloud Security
Confidently move workloads to the cloud and hosted environments, knowing that your data remains fully in your control at all times through comprehensive data protection and encryption key management that remain inaccessible to cloud providers.
Database Security
Encrypt data, control privileged user and database administrator access, and collect security intelligence logs across your heterogeneous collection of database and big data environments with Thales data-at-rest encryption security solutions.
Encrypt everything with centralized control
Whether storing data in a physical data center, a private or public cloud, or in a third-party storage application, proper encryption and key management are critical to ensure sensitive data is protected.
Thales offers data-at-rest encryption solutions that deliver granular encryption, tokenization and role-based access control for structured and unstructured data residing in databases, applications, files, and storage containers. With centralized key management and a hardened root of trust, enterprises can ensure their master keys are protected and data remains secure.
Data at Rest Encryption Products
CipherTrust Data Security Platform
Discover, protect and control your organization’s sensitive data anywhere with next-generation unified data protection.
CipherTrust Manager
Offers industry leading enterprise key management solution to centrally manage encryption keys and configure security policies.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption
Delivers high-performance encryption and least-privileged access controls for files, directories, and volumes.
DevSecOps-friendly Data Protection
Delivers crypto functions such as key management, signing, hashing, and encryption services through APIs.
CipherTrust Tokenization
Quickly add tokenization and dynamic data masking to existing applications to protect data and meet regulations.
CipherTrust Database Protection
Delivers comprehensive encryption and granular controls to secure the most sensitive data across your database environments.
CipherTrust Batch Data Transformation
High speed secure data masking.
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager
Enables strong controls over encryption keys and policies for data encrypted by multiple cloud providers.
Enterprise Encryption Key Management
Centralized key management for third-party devices, servers, databases, storage and virtual environments.