Fortanix Introduces New Data Sovereignty Solutions To Help Organizations Meet Evolving Global Data Security and Privacy Requirements
October 10 2023 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
Fortanix Data Security Manager™ Now Offers
External Key Management For All Google Workspace Apps That Use
Client-Side Encryption
Fortanix® Inc., the data security company and pioneer of
Confidential Computing, today announced new capabilities for
Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) to help public and private
organizations address growing data sovereignty requirements
globally. Available now, the existing and new features deliver
several key capabilities, including support for sovereign cloud,
storing keys in sovereign boundaries, anonymization of private
data, centralized control to manage access and enforce consistent
policies across hybrid and multicloud environments, and more, all
delivered via an intuitive user experience.
Organizations around the globe are taking urgent steps to meet
strict, complex, and changing data sovereignty regulations.
According to a Gartner® report, “Particularly in Europe, but also
in other regions, governments are becoming increasingly concerned
due to tightening privacy and data protection regulations impacting
data sovereignty, data control, technological sovereignty and their
dependence on foreign cloud infrastructure providers.”*
Complying with multitude of mandates is a major challenge for
organizations, but Fortanix makes it easy for them to ensure
compliance over sensitive data, while also bolstering security. The
Fortanix flagship DSM offering can be provisioned within customers’
sovereign regions, enabling them to have a dedicated solution that
meets regulations in their legislative jurisdictions.
“Data sovereignty goes beyond just where data resides; it is a
multi-layered approach that encompasses data security, protection,
and privacy. Fortanix’s existing and new capabilities exemplify our
commitment to expanding and enhancing DSM to deliver the most
advanced data security and privacy solution to organizations around
the globe,” said Faiyaz Shahpurwala, chief product and strategy
officer at Fortanix. “Security and data teams can now maintain
greater international and cross-border security, compliance, and
control over their data with a unified platform that is powered by
confidential computing and validated by the highest industry
certifications.”
“Data sovereignty, data privacy and compliance with regulations
such as GDPR and Schrems II are an integral part of our work in
behavioral research,” said Raj Jagesar, project lead for the
Digital Phenotyping Research Program (Behapp) at the University of
Groningen in the Netherlands. “With Fortanix DSM's External Key
Manager for Google Cloud, we have full control over our encryption
keys not just for compliance purposes, but also to mitigate any
security risks related to sensitive personal data.”
Fortanix DSM’s key data sovereignty capabilities include:
- Full control over key generation and lifecycle management for
hybrid, multicloud environments with natively integrated KMS and
FIPS 140-2 Level 3 HSM
- The ability to store encryption keys separate from data and
within sovereign regions
- Enforced least privileged data access with RBAC and Quorum
Controls to support Zero Trust architecture
- Crypto agility with rapid migration to latest approved
quantum-proof cryptographic algorithms
- Format-preserving encryption to anonymize sensitive data at
ingestion or creation before sharing across pipelines and workflows
to keep it private, usable, and compliant
- Native database encryption to manage and store the keys
required to encrypt all databases, including Oracle, SQL Server,
MongoDB, PostGres, MySQL, Maria DB, IBM DB2, and more
- Joint VMware and Fortanix solution for scalable data protection
and compliance for VMware Sovereign cloud environments
- Sovereign support for Google Cloud services/offerings in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in partnership with SITE and CNTXT
- Confidential data search, enabling users to quickly search for
regulated data in encrypted databases at terabyte scale
- Customer choice of deployment models: on-premises, virtual
appliances running in private or public cloud, or a fully managed
SaaS across multiple global regions
Fortanix Expands Client-Side Encryption to Gmail
Fortanix has added support for client-side encryption of Gmail
messages, rounding out its offering as an external key manager for
organizations working in the Google Workspace ecosystem. This means
that data will never be sent from a knowledge worker end point such
as an employee laptop without it being encrypted while in transit,
boosting data privacy and security across the organization.
Fortanix now offers key management for all Google Workspace
applications that use client-side encryption, including Docs,
Sheets, Calendar, and now Gmail. This enables Fortanix customers
who use Google Workspace to create, store, and manage encryption
keys themselves, and not through Google.
Meet with Fortanix at it-sa Expo&Congress 2023
Fortanix will once again have a presence at it-sa
Expo&Congress 2023, Europe's largest trade event for IT
security. The event takes place Oct. 10-12 at Exhibition Centre
Nuremberg in Nuremberg, Germany. Fortanix team members will be on
hand in Hall 7, booth number 7-627.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the it-sa
Expo&Congress website.
Additional Resources
- Download the Fortanix Data Security Manager brief
- Read about Fortanix client-side encryption for Google
Workspace
- Explore the programming for it-sa Expo&Congress 2023
About Fortanix
Fortanix secures data, wherever it is. Fortanix’s data-first
approach helps businesses of all sizes to modernize their security
solutions on-premises, in the cloud, and everywhere in between.
Enterprises worldwide, especially in privacy-sensitive industries
like healthcare, fintech, financial services, government, and
retail, trust Fortanix for data security, privacy and compliance.
Fortanix investors include Goldman Sachs, Foundation Capital, Intel
Capital, In-Q-Tel, Neotribe Ventures and GiantLeap Capital.
Fortanix is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. For more information,
visit https://www.fortanix.com.
*Gartner, What Are the Different Provider Approaches to
‘Sovereign Cloud’ Demands?, Rene Buest, Gregor Petri, Neville
Cannon, Bart Willemsen, 4 April 2022
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