Thales announces the availability of CipherTrust Transparent Encryption(CTE) through the CipherTrust Data Security Platform as-a-service. CTE is designed to provide transparent, high-performance encryption for complex environments without the need to modify applications or underlying infrastructure. 

In continuing to expand its cloud service offerings, Thales remains committed to providing customers with a choice in how they consume data security services to help achieve compliance and protect sensitive data wherever it resides.

The availability of CipherTrust Transparent Encryption via the CipherTrust Data Security Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS) follows the launch of CipherTrust Cloud Key Management(CCKM) as-a-Service, which allows enterprises to secure, manage and control their encryption keys centrally across multiple public cloud and SaaS environments.

As more enterprises move applications and workloads to a wide range of cloud platforms, they face increased management complexity and a higher risk of threats and data breaches. On average, organizations use 84 SaaS applications. 

According to the 2024 Thales Cloud Security Study, more than half of IT professionals consider managing privacy and data protection regulations in multi-cloud/hybrid) environments more complex than on-premises.

With this new offering, Thales extends its existing SaaS-based key management service to help enterprises extend data encryption, protection, and access policies beyond on-premises solutions.

“With this new CipherTrust Data Security Platform capability, Thales offers customers an option to deploy and consume data security services in a variety of different ways to effectively future proof their data across multiple systems and environments,” said Todd Moore, Vice President of Data Security products at Thales.

“Organisations can enjoy seamless updates free of disruption, scale to meet business demands, close the skills gap for security expertise, and deploy data security more quickly and cost-effectively without the need to invest in additional hardware and software.” 

CipherTrust Data Security Platform as-a-Service makes it easy for IT security teams to consume, deploy, and manage encryption and key management while lowering the cost of ownership, reducing deployment time, and helping enterprises address the growing shortage of skilled IT staff.