Bloombase Adds Ultra Electronics AEP’s Keyper Line of Hardware Security Modules

Bloombase, Inc. announces that through its partnership with Ultra Electronics AEP, a trading name of Ultra Electronics Ltd, it is able to offer greater flexibility and choice to large-scale organizations and enterprises looking to benefit from security hardened key storage and data-at-rest security.

This partnership provides out-of-the-box interoperability between Ultra Electronics AEP’s Keyper line of HSMs (Hardware Security Module) and Bloombase’s StoreSafe data-at-rest encryption security solution. Improving cross-vendor interoperability increases the flexibility for customers to choose security solutions that best meet their needs, thereby increasing security overall and benefiting the industry as a whole.

The rise in the accessibility of digital data has swept across the business landscape and has created pervasive, data-driven business operations. It has become a race for enterprises to simultaneously satisfy the insatiable desire for instant secure access to business intelligence, process the massive amounts of data generated, automate processes and minimize risks, whilst gaining maximum returns. Organizations and enterprises alike are pushed to innovate and adapt, whilst preserving data privacy and trust. At the same time, a paradigm shift has occurred in the way data is hosted. Increasingly, businesses are migrating their services from physical, brick-and-mortar datacenters, to service oriented virtual datacenters and cloud infrastructure environments in order to gain economical and scale advantages. This complicates the issue of data protection and security as mission-critical data may no longer be stored on-site. Protection of data and the encryption keys used to protect them has become a critical operational concern.

Bloombase’s StoreSafe helps to safeguard data with industry-standard cryptography to protect against outbound data and exfiltration threats. It is a complete turnkey, data-at-rest encryption security solution. It is designed to secure physical or virtual datacenter and cloud infrastructures, offering protection in either on-site of off-site deployments. This ensures that data encryption security is preserved as operational needs evolve. StoreSafe is a high-speed real-time data encryption solution that secures all types of enterprise data, whether structured o unstructured, and supports heterogeneous storage environments. StoreSafe is deployed as a ‘drop-in’ software appliance, requires zero operational changes and does not impact user workflows. Additionally, it supports PKCS#11 HSMs and OASIS KMIP key managers, is IEEE1619 compliant and takes advantage of Intel AES-NI hardware cryptographic technology for maximum performance.

Ease of deployment and integration is another key concern for organizations. This joint solution unlocks access to the combination of Bloombase’s StoreSafe encryption security with Ultra Electronics AEP’s Keyper line of encryption key HSMs. Featuring NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certification (the highest available in the market), true hardware random key generation as well as hardware cryptographic acceleration, Ultra Electronics AEP offers powerful, tamper-proof and tamper-evident, security-hardened key storage and protection. This combination is suited to a variety of use cases including encryption of CMSs (Content Management Systems), DMSs (Document Management Systems), file servers, databases, backup archives, data warehouses, virtual servers, VDIs, big data repositories and cloud storage services, amongst many others. Furthermore, this combination simplifies compliance with regulatory confidentiality requirements.

“We understand how challenging the market is today for organizations and enterprises. We want to make sure that customers have access to the highest levels of security by making it easier for them to build security solutions around products from vendors they trust and are familiar with,” said Sean Xiang, Bloombase CEO. “Partnering with Ultra Electronics AEP allows for interoperability and through this, customers gain a powerful plug-in solution from two of the   vendors.“

Product director, Ultra Electronics AEP, Rob Stubbs outlines how this partnership will offer significant benefits for end users: “Large enterprises and government organizations around the world already choose the Ultra Electronics Keyper HSM to protect their most valuable intellectual assets. The Keyper HSM adds a FIPS 140-2 Level 4 validated security element to applications such as PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions), DRM (Digital Rights Management), code signing and database encryption. Customers can now also encrypt their data at rest using Bloombase’s next-generation data security solutions with the assurance that their private keys are generated and protected by the most trusted HSM in the world, never leaving the tamper-responsive crypto module.“