Thales Expands Relationship with Google Cloud to Increase Customer Trust in the Cloud
February 15 2022 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
- Broader relationship provides organisations with clear path to
confidently use highly-sensitive data in Google Cloud Platform
(GCP)
- Enables Ubiquitous Data Encryption, a solution that combines
Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing with Thales’s CipherTrust
Cloud Key Manager
- Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform allows users to
create and manage encryption keys for data moving to Google Cloud’s
Confidential Computing
Building on the two companies’ long standing partnership,
Thales and Google Cloud are now working together to strengthen data
security for customers migrating their workloads to the cloud. The
Thales and Google Cloud solution enables Ubiquitous Data
Encryption, a unified offering that provides complete control over
data at-rest, in-use, and in-transit with comprehensive centralized
key control owned and managed by the customer. It leverages the
combined power of Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing, a
breakthrough technology that encrypts data in-use while it is being
processed, and Thales’s CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager, to create
and manage their encryption keys in Google Cloud.
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Increasing trust in the cloud
According to the 2021 Thales Data Threat Report, more than half
(51%) of all organisations surveyed are shifting their workloads
and data to the public cloud, making data security and control even
more important. The integrated Thales and Google Cloud solution
ensures that data at-rest, in-transit and now data in-use cannot be
accessed via the cloud service provider, offering confidentiality
of the customer’s data.
As a result of Google Cloud’s Ubiquitous Data Encryption,
organisations now have a way for highly-sensitive data to be used
in GCP. This is achieved by only granting access to data usage via
a confidential Virtual Machine (VM) with encryption keys hosted
outside of GCP, and key management handled via an external cloud
key manager, like CipherTrust.
“To facilitate the future of secure data transfer, we must be
able to put control entirely in the hands of the customer. Google
Cloud’s Ubiquitous Data Encryption allows the end user to reduce
the amount of implicit trust involved in data storage and transfer.
By bringing in a trusted third-party platform like Thales’s
CipherTrust Data Security Platform, we can provide our customers
with the data security solution they need to seamlessly encrypt and
decrypt their sensitive and proprietary information,” said Nelly
Porter, Group Project Manager, Cloud Security at Google.
Ensuring strong key management
The integrated solution leverages Thales’s CipherTrust Cloud Key
Manager to allow users to create encryption keys and establish
rules for wrapping and unwrapping each key, providing support for
several specific confidential computing use cases.
“Since 2017, we have been working together with Google Cloud to
make it possible for enterprises to put their trust in the cloud
with more sovereign control over their data security. Recently, we
have announced in France the co-development a trusted cloud that
will also rely on our CipherTrust solutions. Our support of Google
Cloud’s Ubiquitous Data Encryption is another indication of our
shared vision to deliver organisations around the globe with
solutions that allow them to securely control and manage their data
no matter where it resides,” said Todd Moore, VP Encryption
Products at Thales.
Increasing customer control
Thales’s CipherTrust Data Security Platform allows the end user
to maintain strong ownership of their data on-premises and in the
cloud, as well as when moving sensitive workflows and data to the
cloud. The new, integrated solution for GCP represents a new use
case for Hold Your Own Key (HYOK), stemming from Thales’s extensive
experience building HYOK solutions for customers migrating their
workloads to the public cloud.
Google Cloud customers using the Confidential VMs powered by AMD
EPYC™ processors can encrypt data in use using the advanced
security feature, Secure Encrypted Virtualization, which is
available on AMD EPYC™ CPUs. With confidential computing, customers
can be confident that their data will stay private and encrypted
even while being processed.
“Confidential Computing addresses key security concerns many
organizations have today in migrating their sensitive applications
to public cloud. Google Confidential VMs, powered by AMD EPYC
processors and using its Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)
feature, enables protection that’s transparent from applications,
helping customers safeguard their most valuable information while
in-use by applications in the public cloud,” added Raghu
Nambiar, corporate vice president, Data Center Ecosystems and
Solutions, AMD.
Additional information
- Thales Security Sessions Podcast - Evolution of cloud security:
From shared responsibility to share fate with Sebastien Cano and
Sunil Potti
- Trust Paradox: Trust Google Cloud more by removing implicit
trust with ubiquitous data encryption blog by Anton Chuvakin and
Il-Sung Lee, Google Cloud
- Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform now allows users to
create and manage encryption keys for data moving to Google Cloud’s
confidential computing blog by Leonor Martins, Thales
- 5 Cheat sheets to help you get started on your Google Cloud
journey
About Thales
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced
technologies, investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations –
connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and
quantum computing – to build a confident future crucial for the
development of our societies. The Group provides its customers –
businesses, organisations and governments – in the defense,
aeronautics, space, transport, and digital identity and security
domains with solutions, services and products that help them fulfil
their critical role, consideration for the individual being the
driving force behind all decisions.
Thales has 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2020 the Group
generated sales of €17 billion.
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