Skyhigh Networks and SafeNet Team Up for Key Management

Skyhigh Networks Inc. announced a collaboration with SafeNet Inc. to deliver key management solutions to protect corporate data in the cloud.

By working together, they enable enterprises to leverage on-premise or cloud-based models for encrypting data while retaining full control of their encryption keys, thereby meeting their corporate and regulatory compliance requirements. The cloud-based model for data security provides immediate scale, minimizes network latency, and avoids the upfront investment and limits of on-premise deployments.

“More and more organizations are asking to encrypt their data in business-critical SaaS applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Office 365 with customer-managed keys,” said Chris Cesio, VP of business development and alliances, Skyhigh Networks. “Through integration with SafeNet’s leading key management solutions, we’re providing a scalable, standards-based approach that gives customers flexibility of deployment models so that they can leverage the benefits of cloud services while ensurig the best possible security controls.“

Skyhigh Secure provides customers with flexible deployment options of its encryption gateway, including on-premises, cloud-hosted, and hybrid deployment options. In all of these deployment options, customers own and manage their own keys in SafeNet solutions and the integration with Skyhigh is facilitated via a secured key distribution method. This allows companies to centralize encryption and key management for their cloud applications, as well as store their keys in solutions from hardened virtual appliances up to FIPS 140-2 Level 3-compliant hardware if needed.

On-Premises Key Management Solutions
It integrate with on-premises SafeNet key management solutions, such as KeySecure via the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) for enterprise key management, and/or with the SafeNet Luna SA network attached HSM for tamper-proof secure key storage. Customers can use these solutions separately or in combination depending on the type of keys and the type of data they need to protect.

Cloud-Based Key Management Solutions
For customers that are encrypting data in the cloud, such as protecting data in Salesforce.com, they have the option of managing and storing the encryption keys with SafeNet Virtual KeySecure, a hardened virtual security appliance that is deployed in the cloud. For more stringent security requirements such as PCI compliance, customers can also store the keys in Amazon Web Services CloudHSM. The cloud-based deployment offers customers with immediate scale, minimal network latency, better ease of use, and faster time to value.

“Customer controlled keys with strong key management are essential for illustrating security, compliance and control of data in the cloud,” said David Etue, VP of corporate development strategy, SafeNet. “SafeNet and Skyhigh are working together to ensure that security teams can uniformly view, control, and administer cryptographic policies and keys for all their sensitive data, wherever it resides.“