CipherCloud Unveils Encryption for SaaS, Cloud Applications

Cloud security company CipherCloud has unveiled its configurable encryption gateway called CipherCloud Connect AnyApp, which is designed to secure data for public and private cloud Web applications while also preserving application functionality.

The encryption gateway works with IaaS, SaaS (News - Alert) and PaaS Web applications as well as behind-the-firewall intranet applications, allowing enterprises to deploy encryption or tokenization in hours, according to CipherCloud Founder and CEO Pravin Kothari.

“Every business and public sector organization CipherCloud has spoken with asks how they can encrypt data for their own set of third-party and custom Web applications. This might be a behind-the-firewall application moving to IaaS or a hot new SaaS social enterprise app,” Kothari said in a company statement. “The industry’s wait is over and now millions of IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS and behind-the-firewall applications can have data-at-rest protected with point-and-click encryption and tokenization policies without any programming required.”

With Connect AnyApp, administrators specify fields on Web pages to be encrypted with no application changes or client software required. Organizations can choose from multiple encryption and tokenization options that preserve data format and operations, including search and sort.

Previously, enterprises have been faced with complex or costly options to use encryption or tokenization with SaaS, cloud and web applications, if they had any options at all, according to Lawrence Pingree, research director at Gartner (News - Alert).

“Cloud encryption gateways that can be configured to encrypt or tokenize data are needed to reduce this risk and allow businesses and governments to go beyond the firewall and adopt public and private clouds applications,” Pingree said.  

The CipherCloud Platform provides a single cloud encryption platform for securing public and private clouds that Gartner forecasts will be used by more than 25 percent of enterprises in 2016, up from less than one percent today, while reducing the cost of securing the cloud by 30 percent.

With CipherCloud Connect AnyApp, organizations can secure data stored in Web applications by:

• Installing the CipherCloud virtual appliance, which automatically generates an organization’s encryption keys.
• Specifying URLs of the public and private cloud applications to be encrypted.
• Using point-and-click to create policies to encrypt or tokenize one or more fields.
• Once a policy is enabled, data entered for the Web application is automatically encrypted or tokenized using CipherCloud’s format and operations preserving technology.

In July, CipherCloud announced the release of CipherCloud for Office 365, which transparently encrypts all e-mail, calendar and contact data stored in Microsoft’s (News - Alert) cloud-based Exchange Online and third-party Hosted Exchange, TMCnet reported. CipherCloud is capable of encrypting data at rest, data in transit and data in use in real time while allowing organization to retain controls over their encryption keys.

“CipherCloud’s revolutionary cloud encryption platform breaks the barriers to adopt yet another cloud with the release of CipherCloud for Office 365,” Kothari, said in a statement. “Enterprises gain not only the costs savings, scalability and productivity benefits of the cloud, but also the simplicity and lower total cost of ownership of a single cloud encryption platform to secure all their cloud applications.”

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