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A Guide to Key Management as a Service

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

A Guide to Key Management as a Service madhav Thu, 06/15/2023 - 11:29 As companies adopt a cloud-first strategy and high-profile breaches hit the headlines, securing sensitive data has become a paramount business concern. The most effective way to ensure data security is through encryption and proper key management.

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NIST Announced Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the first collection of encryption tools designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer, which might compromise the security employed to preserve privacy in the digital systems we rely on. Thales innovates in crypto-research.

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A New Era for Data Protection

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The combination of our two companies creates the worldwide leader in digital security, protecting more data, transactions and identities than any other company and enabling tens of thousands of organizations to deliver trusted digital services to billions of individuals around the world. Global leadership in payment HSMs.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The 2018 Data Threat Report commissioned by Thales and conducted by 451 Research revealed 99% of respondents (a sample of 1,200 senior security executives from around the globe) are using or planning to use big data. However, with more data available for analytical purposes, the harder it becomes to protect it across distributed repositories.

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HSMs: Facilitating Key Management in a Hybrid Cloud Environment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Organizations are actively working to prevent data breaches by encrypting their sensitive information. Encryption isn’t a foolproof security measure, however. If attackers get control of an organization’s encryption keys, for instance, they can use them to decrypt its data and thereby steal its plaintext contents.

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Data Protection on Demand: The Key to Cloud-Based Key Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Some organizations presume that encryption is a one-and-done affair that can solve all of their security woes. Even when organizations effectively implement encryption, they might forget to safely store their encryption keys. There are many options for secure key management. Indeed, HSMs aren’t perfect.