SafeNet ProtectV

Using the solution of SafeNet ProtectV company, the processing company servicing several largest Russian banks provided a comprehensive protection as at the isolation level of virtual servers in the environment VMWare, and at the level of these century DBMS Oracle. Isolation of services and data is performed due to complete enciphering of images of virtual servers, and the existing system of data protection in Orace (TDE) DBMS was brought into accord to the requirements PCI DSS 3.0 consisting in need of application of specialized hardware solutions (HSM) for storage of keys enciphering.

The SafeNet company presented in the fall of 2012 the solution Protect V. Protect V provides a possibility of integrated management of data, transparency and controllability for virtual machines based on VMware and AWS:

• ProtectV represents the complete functional solution for data encryption in the virtualized and cloud environments which allows to exercise data management, administration of data (governance) and provides their transparency and also helps to observe requirements of the legislation;
• now customers can perform migration of crucial applications in a virtual/cloud environment, retaining full control over these (data ownership) due to enciphering and management of confidential information. The solution SafeNet ProtectV is compatible to virtual infrastructures of VMware vCenter and VMware vShield and also to environments of AWS EC2 & EBS;
• using ProtectV customers will be able to protect important data for all their lifecycle: from the moment of preparation and initialization (provisioning) to destruction. Among the main opportunities of a new solution there is an enciphering of virtual machines, prestarting authentication, the centralized audit and the key management certified according to the FIPS standard.

The solution SafeNet ProtectV allows to perform granular and complete enciphering of all virtual machine, supports prestarting authentication and placement of a starting point of trust (root of trust) on the equipment on the party of the customer that provides a comprehensive protection throughout lifecycle of information. ProtectV allows to start systems, even in joint (co-mingled) or multi-user environments as though they were in your own private data processing center.

All virtual machines and sections corresponding to them for data storage are ciphered — copies of virtual machines, their configurations (snapshot) and backup copies on all nodes and platforms of disaster recovery belong here. Thus, privileged users and administrators in whose hands there can be a control over virtualization infrastructure, will not be able to get access to the ciphered virtual machines.

The solution ProtectV provides the mechanism of the fixed control (undisputed control) with confirmation of operations on data management through magazines of audit. ProtectV allows the organizations to achieve proper control and to provide positive control of audit (audit control) regardless of where data take place or stored, observing at the same time requirements of legislative regulations, including PCI DSS, HIPAA and HITECH.

The solution ProtectV the politician of enciphering and use of a uniform point of audit (audit point) allows to gain an evident impression about security in a cloud at the expense of the centralized implementation. SafeNet provides a highly reliable and safe environment for key management with the fixed access control to data and to keys. Thus, the enterprises and their auditors checking infrastructure for compliance to requirements of legal acts with guarantee receive full control over keys to data and also magazines of access to them that allows to reach necessary transparency.

Within SafeNet solution portfolio for data protection the SafeNet ProtectV system is integrated with corporate solution of SafeNet for key management — KeySecureTM. KeySecure allows the staff of Information Security Services to manage on a centralized basis encryption keys for all platforms of enciphering which are used at the enterprise. At the same time, this solution also the politician allows to simplify the procedure of administration of keys.

2013

SafeNet ProtectV ciphers data in Amazon EC2

On November 12, 2013 the SafeNet company announced expansion of functionality of the solution SafeNet ProtectV. Now there is a possibility of enciphering of workload in Amazon EC2 and to keep encryption keys completely in the order without the need for installation of the hardware on own squares.

Innovations

The solutions SafeNet Protect V and Virtual KeySecure can be started completely on the platform of infrastructure Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are compatible to AWS CloudHSM service - customers can retain full control over the encryption keys, entirely implementing infrastructure necessary for this purpose in a cloud.

2014

ProtectV for Service Providers

On November 25, 2014 company SafeNet, Inc. provided ProtectV for Service Providers – the software solution for enciphering providing service providers with the increased data protection and access control for customers at data storage in a cloud and virtual environment.

Referring to forecasts of analysts about what by the end of 2015 up to 70% of all organizations will be used by technologies of virtualization, developers draw a conclusion about obligation of protection of all data which are stored in a cloud as the condition which is subject to implementation in business models of service providers, and allowing the enterprises to observe the growing number of requirements of regulators.

ProtectV can be implemented into the customer's IT environment as a part of the infrastructure provided by service provider in the form of service (IaaS) and to provide complete enciphering of virtual machines and volumes of data warehouses. Customers of service providers for protection of the data and for their isolation from vendor data of services and other customers can use the solution ProtectV. ProtectV prevents unauthorized access to data, helping the organizations to differentiate and control information in a multi-user environment, including in public and hybrid cloud models.

The solution ProtectV for Service Providers is available to partners of Amazon Web Services and users of cloud platforms on the VMware platform.

SafeNet in the technological solution offers several advantages, satisfying requirements of service providers and corporate customers, combining in it flexibility of cloud computing and the increased data security caused by enciphering.

Advantages

• capability of fast deployment of services of enciphering for customers (with a possibility of further providing service with consumption payment after delivery)

• the module of billing and the built-in applied interfaces for determination of parameters of use of service.

The solution ProtectV provides complex integration with the existing portfolio of services by means of support of programmable API. The organizations can use IaaS model and receive at the same time the complete reporting on all lifecycle of data, magazines of audits and detailed data about observance of statutory requirements.

A system gives an opportunity to authentication before start of virtual machines (pre-launch authentication) and more exact access control for ensuring full control and confirmation of the rights (proof of ownership) both concerning the ciphered data, and concerning the related keys, both from the point of view of the customer, and from the point of view of service provider.

ProtectV can be used with virtual or hardware solutions of SafeNet for key management, providing the high level of security conforming to the FIPS 140-2 standard.

2015

SafeNet ProtectV is available in Azure Marketplace

In September, 2015 Gemalto reported that the solution SafeNet ProtectV is available in the Azure Marketplace online store providing a wide choice of the optimized and integrated applications and services to the Microsoft Azure cloud environment now. The cloud cryptographic Gemalto SafeNet system allows users of Azure to cipher and protect the most important data and applications in a cloud to provide their compliance to technical and regulatory requirements and to reach higher level of information security.

According to forecasts of Gartner, the world market of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS) will reach volume in 42.7 billion US dollars to 2019 ^[1] Representatives of business all address to flexible to cloud services, such as Azure more actively to ensure functioning of important applications, however security issues and to requirements of compliance still complicate this process. SafeNet ProtectV solves this problem, just helping easily and to protect the most important and regulated data in a cloud. Thanks to security cryptographic blanket of virtual machines and the data warehouses attached to them, ProtectV allows customers to separate administrative processes, to apply granular systems management and also to prepare detailed documentation for carrying out audits and preparation of reports on compliance to regulatory requirements.