There are many business benefits to Cloud applications. However, when considering their adoption, the questions of data privacy and security are always raised. Depending on corporate security policies or the governing laws of the local jurisdiction, the way sensitive data is managed - where it is located, what type of data it is, who has access to it - often determine the degree to which organizations can realize the value of cloud computing, or if they can even consider it at all. With the Cloud Data Protection Gateway solutions from PerspecSys, the enterprise can realize the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining full control over its sensitive information providing the privacy and security required.
PerspecSys solutions help companies with challenges in these areas:
Data Privacy
Data privacy compliance requires companies to keep business sensitive data, and applications that interact with that data, within the enterprise (i.e. out of the cloud), and only non-sensitive information can be stored or processed in the Cloud.
Data Residency
Where is the data? Who has access to it? Who controls it? Who manages it? What laws and jurisdiction govern it and will they change over time? Questions such as these complicate any corporate cloud adoption strategy.
Data Security
Since companies face financial and reputational risks when data breaches occur, cloud computing initiatives, which have the potential to increase accessibility to corporate information, require additional layers of security to address increased risk.
PerspecSys’ Cloud Protection Gateway solution allows companies to use Cloud applications without associated concerns about data privacy, residency and security. Using patented technology, the solution gives enterprises total control of their sensitive company data, never allowing it to leave their corporate environment in “the clear”. The information that leaves company and goes into the Cloud is tokenized or encrypted, ensuring that sensitive data remains undecipherable until it is brought back into the company’s corporate environment.
Additional benefits of the PerspecSys solution include:
- Data access control – ensuring that sensitive data is only accessible by the individuals or systems entitled to access it.
- Information dissemination – Since the cloud application vendor has no means of deciphering the information it stores, the data can be turned over to any authorized requesting authority, while preserving the enterprise ability to restrict or deny access to the data as per applicable laws or rights.
- Data theft protection – in the case of data theft from the Cloud application, the data remains private, as it is undecipherable by anyone but those individuals and systems entitled to access it.
