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Leading global technology and security provider Thales has announced the delivery of complete end-to-end data security through a new collaboration with Intel.
Research revealed in the 2023 Thales Cloud Security Study found that organisations are expanding their portfolio of cloud service providers, with respondents reporting a 35 per cent increase in the last two years.
With this growth comes increased attention from threat actors, with 38 per cent of survey respondents ranking software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, such as cloud services, as the top target for cyber attacks.
Just in the last year, several major attacks on large organisations and the government have been executed through third-party cloud providers.
Recognising the increasing interest in storing data in the cloud and the growing risk that comes with it, Thales is bolstering its CipherTrust Data Security Platform with Intel’s Trust Authority and its verifiable attestation service.
The result is a product capable of protecting data in use and workloads while delivering seamless end-to-end data security.
“Thales’ collaboration with Intel enables security-conscious organisations to share data safely while preserving privacy, confidentiality, and compliance with regulatory requirements such as GDPR, PCI-DSS and HIPAA, only disclosing the results of the processes performed,” says vice-president of data security products at Thales, Todd Moore.
“This is especially important for highly regulated industries where data security is paramount to safeguarding the privacy of the information.”
Typically, confidential computing works to protect data in use by performing computations in a cryptographically isolated hardware-based trusted execution environment (TEE). The issue with this is that, in many cases, the cryptographic material verifying the TEE is managed by the cloud provider.
Thales new security solution patches this issue by putting the customer in control of the cryptographic key material by implementing separation of duties, meaning if the cloud provider is breached, threat actors won’t have access to the TEE this way.
“It is critical that enterprises retain control of their data protection and can confidently retain business agility while meeting compliance requirements,” said vice-president of systems architecture and engineering and office of the CTO at Intel, Anil Rao.
“Together, Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform, Intel Confidential Computing technologies and Intel Trust Authority provide customers [with] the tools they need to do so.
“We’re pleased to combine the technology leadership and innovation of Thales and Intel with this solution.”
More information on the Thales and Intel collaboration can be found on the Thales website.
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