Thales: Vormetric Transparent Encryption Enhances Security for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Deployments

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, announces Vormetric Transparent Encryption now helps to better secure Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform deployments, in addition to its existing support for Docker use cases. Vormetric Transparent Encryption is designed to ensure only authorized containers and processes can access sensitive data within dynamic container environments. The solution provides encryption, access control and data access logging on a per-container basis to address compliance and best-practice requirements for safeguarding data.

Over the past five years, container environments have grown in popularity among enterprises. According to the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report, Advanced Technology Edition, 87% of respondents have plans to use containers this year, with 40% already in production deployment. But with container adoption growing among surveyed development teams, they are now on the radar of cybercriminals as a new attack target. Many organizations utilizing containers must also demonstrate that they are complying with data privacy and security mandates within the container environment.

To help customers guard against unauthorized access to data within containers and meet compliance demands, Vormetric Transparent Encryption offers a Container Security Extension designed to

• encrypt and control access to data by policy within container environments at both the system level, for LDAP/AD users and groups and for container users;
• segregate data from other containers and administrators using shared storage;
• isolate and secure data in DevOps environments through encryption and access control; and
• provide container-level data access audit logs for insights into data access attempts.

Peter Galvin, VP of Strategy at Thales eSecurity says:
"While security was cited as the number one barrier to container adoption in our Advanced Technology Data Threat Report, respondents also expressed an interest in embracing and willingness towards deploying encryption. With Vormetric Transparent Encryption, organizations can enforce security policies across dynamic container environments as well as within multi-tenant cloud and virtual environments with centralized policy and FIPS compliant key management. The solution empowers them to take advantage of the considerable business benefits containers can provide without compromising data integrity."

Chris Morgan, Technical Director, OpenShift Ecosystem at Red Hat says:
"The optimization of Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform helps extend the set of security capabilities available with OpenShift for enhanced data security. By helping to protect sensitive data stored within and accessed from containers, Thales's products can offer an additional layer of security for Red Hat customers."

About Thales eSecurity
Thales eSecurity is the leader in advanced data security solutions and services that deliver trust wherever information is created, shared or stored. We ensure that the data belonging to companies and government entities is both secure and trusted in any environment – on-premises, in the cloud, in data centres or big data environments – without sacrificing business agility. Security doesn't just reduce risk, it's an enabler of the digital initiatives that now permeate our daily lives – digital money, e-identities, healthcare, connected cars and, with the internet of things (IoT), even household devices. Thales provides everything an organisation needs to protect and manage its data, identities and intellectual property, and meet regulatory compliance – through encryption, advanced key management, tokenisation, and privileged-user control and high-assurance solutions. Security professionals around the globe rely on Thales to confidently accelerate their organisation's digital transformation. Thales eSecurity is part of Thales Group.

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About Thales
Thales is a global technology leader for the Aerospace, Transport, Defence and Security markets. With 64,000 employees in 56 countries, Thales reported sales of €14.9 billion in 2016. With over 25,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design and deploy equipment, systems and services to meet the most complex security requirements. Its exceptional international footprint allows it to work closely with its customers all over the world.

Positioned as a value-added systems integrator, equipment supplier and service provider, Thales is one of Europe's leading players in the security market. The Group's security teams work with government agencies, local authorities and enterprise customers to develop and deploy integrated, resilient solutions to protect citizens, sensitive data and critical infrastructure.

Thales offers world-class cryptographic capabilities and is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions for defence, government, critical infrastructure providers, telecom companies, industry and the financial services sector. With a value proposition addressing the entire data security chain, Thales offers a comprehensive range of services and solutions ranging from security consulting, data protection, digital trust management and design, development, integration, certification and security maintenance of cybersecured systems, to cyberthreat management, intrusion detection and security supervision through cybersecurity Operation Centres in France, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Hong Kong.           

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