Thales Delivers On-Premises and SaaS Bring Your Own Key Offering for Salesforce
January 12, 2017 at 08:00 am
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Thales announced support for Salesforce Bring Your Own Encryption Key (BYOK) for Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption with the release of both on-premises and cloud-hosted key management offerings within its Vormetric Data Security Products line. Two implementation models are available, an on-premises solution and a Software as a Service (SaaS) application. Vormetric Key Management for Salesforce provides an on-premises solution that helps address the compliance needs of regulated industries and larger enterprises. Cloud-hosted Vormetric Key Management as a Service (KMaaS) delivers the same services hosted on Thales' infrastructure, offering the reduced infrastructure and management costs of SaaS applications. Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption enables enterprises using Salesforce to natively encrypt data at rest across their Salesforce apps without compromising business functionality. Thales' Vormetric offerings help organizations safely store, manage and maintain the Salesforce tenant secrets used to derive the encryption keys that protect data within the Salesforce environment, and to meet compliance and best practice requirements for management of these encryption keys. BYOK places control of Salesforce encrypted data firmly in the hands of customers by controlling the final form of Salesforce encryption keys. Both Thales offerings enable organizations to meet these requirements: Separate key management (i.e. tenant secret management) from usage locations. The creation, storage, rotation, deactivation and destruction of tenant secrets used to derive Salesforce encryption keys must happen in a physical location separate from where they are used. Separation of duties for encryption key management based upon organization and locale. Auditing of encryption key management, usage and access.
Thales is one of the European leaders in manufacturing and marketing of electronic equipment and systems for the defense and security, aerospace, and transportation sectors. Net sales break down by product group as follows:
- defense and security systems (53.4%): C4I defense and security systems (control and monitoring systems, communication, protection, cyber-security, and other systems), defense mission systems, naval systems, electronic war systems, drones, air operation systems (air defense, air surveillance), ground defense systems and missiles;
- aerospace systems (28.4%): avionics equipment (cockpit, cabin multimedia, and simulation equipment), space systems (satellites, payloads, etc.);
- digital identification and security solutions (18.2%).
Besides, the group owns a 35% stake in Naval Group (manufacture of naval equipment for defense and nuclear energy sectors).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (29.5%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), Europe (24.8%), the United States and Canada (14%), Asia (9.4%), Near and Middle East (6%), Australia and New Zealand (4.4%) and other (5.3%).
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