Porticor and nScaled today
announced the industry’s first joint solution integrating
software-defined homomorphic encryption key management to protect
customers’ cloud information and applications replicated for IT Business
Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR).
Porticor is a leading cloud data security company delivering the only cloud-based key management and data encryption solution
that infuses trust into the cloud and keeps cloud data confidential.
nScaled is a provider of automated, integrated IT Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solutions.
nScaled’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) platform
replicates data, servers, operating systems and applications to protect
and deliver critical IT services to users in case of a man-made or
natural disaster, equipment failure or data loss. nScaled’s DRaaS
hybrid cloud solution ensures that replicas are up to date at all times,
including both the data and the “virtual machine images” of the code
that runs the applications. Forrester Research, Inc., named nScaled a
Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service Providers,
Q1 2014.
Porticor adds key management and encryption to nScaled’s solution.
Integrated into nScaled’s physical and virtual appliance, Porticor
encrypts the data store of each application backed up by nScaled’s
solution seamlessly and transparently. Porticor is also implemented on
nScaled’s cloud, ensuring that any data replicated to the nScaled cloud
is also encrypted. The result is multifaceted, data-at-rest and
in-transmission encryption solution that protects information at the
customer’s data center and in the cloud.
“We are in the insurance business so clients share personal and
account information about their employees with us,” said Aatash Patel,
IT Director at Covala Group, a leading enroller and administrator of
voluntary, supplemental individual disability benefits for large
employers. “With nScaled in place serving our disaster recovery needs,
we needed a private cloud data encryption solution that was high
performing and compatible with our VMware environment. Porticor has
been our answer to protect clients’ confidential information, and help
us meet their compliance requirements. We spun up Porticor with nScaled
in our cloud without any technical training, and support has been very
helpful at both companies. I am very happy with what both vendors are
doing together so far.”
“Business continuity and disaster recovery have been one of the most
successful services offered through the cloud model, and nScaled
delivers the industry’s leading automated and integrated solution,” said
Mark Jameson, VP of Worldwide Sales and Product Strategy at nScaled.
“Together with Porticor we are providing the most secure and reliable
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to protect customer’s data and
applications.”
“Cloud providers, including providers delivering DRaaS, offer a
‘shared responsibility’ model for the security and protection of
customer applications and data,” said Gilad Parann-Nissany, Porticor
founder and CEO. “Now that we have teamed with nScaled, customers can
be assured that their applications and information will be available and
safe from loss due to disasters and cloud data security threats.”
Cloud data encryption provides an effective layer of protection
against new cloud security challenges, including internal cloud data
center threats, information protection in a shared environment, and
compliance requirements which mandate information to be secured both on
premises and in the cloud. The challenge created is not in encrypting
the data, but with managing the encryption keys. To provide secure
cloud management of encryption keys for outsourced data center services
to the nScaled cloud, Porticor uses a highly sophisticated and patented
approach – split key encryption and homomorphic key management.
The Porticor Virtual Private Data system is the industry’s only
solution combining data encryption with patented split-key encryption
and homomorphic key management technologies to protect critical data in
public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Unlike traditional data
encryption solutions, which are complicated and expensive to deploy and
manage, Porticor’s split-key encryption and homomorphic key management
system is offered as the industry’s first cloud data protection service of its kind, delivering true confidentiality of data in the cloud by ensuring customer encryption keys are not exposed.