TLS Encryption and Decryption
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption/decryption platform is a dedicated appliance (in-line or out-of-band) used to decrypt and pass TLS traffic to the other end of the destination to multiple stand-alone security inspection solutions, then encrypts the traffic before it proceeds to its final destination for data processing.
The TLS decryption platform can be used to decrypt inbound and outbound traffic. This is important because as an ever-greater percentage of inbound and outbound network traffic is encrypted, security and risk management leaders must consider how to gain visibility into potentially malicious activity.
This technology can solve visibility issues in organizations outside of highly regulated nations. In nations with data privacy and data sovereignty laws, decisions to decrypt must be coordinated with legal and human resources. Enterprises tolerant of additional appliances can use a dedicated TLS decryption platform for the greater visibility necessary to protect their data and let other security tools inspect traffic. Midsize enterprises are likely to leverage existing solutions to solve visibility problems.
Data Security as a Service
Data security as a service (DSaaS) provides data security and protection capabilities as a service. Enterprises and organizations hand over their data to the service provider. The provider stores, protects, transforms, and shares it back to them or with third parties while achieving the required compliance and secrecy goals.
DSaaS makes complex or expensive data security controls accessible to mainstream organizations. It enables clients to shorten the deployment times of data security from many months to several days, bringing them into a position to match the speed of cloud and DevOps initiatives. It achieves this by consistently meeting the customers’ and regulators’ control objectives without the need for the customer to care for the implementation.
Data can be secured while at rest and in motion. It can flow securely among individuals and organizations. However, an increased number of data-related regulations and associated legal, security, and privacy risks are blocking this data sharing. DSaaS will be instrumental in solving this challenge.
Data security controls and data security architectures are frequently complex, and the customer is loaded with both hardware and software—putting thorough, scalable, and agile data security out of reach of most organizations. At the same time, most organizations must step up their data security controls to address constantly evolving privacy regulations, prepare for open data initiatives and artificial intelligence/machine learning use cases, or enable monetization of data with ever-changing ecosystem partners. This tension will lead to accelerated adoption of DSaaS.