Getting to grips with data protection thanks to CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager
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Key Takeaways
⇨ As enterprises migrate to the cloud, managing sensitive data security becomes a priority, especially with the increasing complexity of SAP platforms.
⇨ The 'Bring Your Own Keys' (BYOK) model allows organizations to manage their encryption keys, but integrating these keys across multiple cloud environments can complicate management and performance.
⇨ Thales' CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager, in conjunction with SAP’s Data Custodian, provides a centralized solution for encryption key lifecycle management, enhancing both IT efficiency and regulatory compliance.
With each passing day, more enterprises find themselves migrating to the cloud or at least contemplating it. It’s easy to see why – the computational improvements and agility provided by cloud tech can’t be ignored if an organization wants to stay competitive. However, as enterprises grow, so do the repositories of business and process data, both benign and sensitive. Keeping this data secure can require intuitive cloud access management via keys.
According to a previous IDC Data Threat Report, half of all corporate data is stored within the cloud, and 48 percent of that data is considered sensitive. With SAP platforms transforming into increasingly complex enterprise systems, the need to keep the growing data collections secure is becoming a priority.
Many cloud service providers will offer a ‘Bring Your Own Keys’, or BYOK, security structure as a means for organizations to manage encryption keys and workloads. An encryption key system helps ensure data stays securely within the confines of designated geography while also making sensitive data in the cloud effectively useless for anyone to access without the right key.
However, the encryption key system encounters issues when trying to integrate with a multi-cloud deployment – managing encryption keys across different cloud environments becomes a lot more complex, with mismanagement of said keys potentially leading to silos of cloud encryption keys that could negatively impact IT performance. Fortunately, these kinds of security key changes won’t impact SAP platforms with the use of the CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager from enterprise security specialist, Thales.
By combining and integrating SAP’s Data Custodian with Thales’ CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager, firms gain increased visibility and can manage encryption key lifecycle of SAP apps from the same pane of glass as their other encryption measures. Organizations can externally root encryption keys in a hardware appliance specifically built for security purposes. A centralized key lifecycle management system for multiple cloud environments can add gains to IT efficiency while also complying with stringent data protection and sovereignty mandates and requirements.
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager can help simplify the ongoing admin that’s required to keep up with regulatory compliance while also maintaining SAP’s own built-in security functionalities.
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