ProtectV™

Moving to virtual datacenters or the cloud enables the utilization of resources on-demand providing significant business benefits. However, these are coupled with challenges for the IT and security teams tasked with effectively and persistently meetings the organization’s governance, compliance, and data protection mandates in these environments. 

Conventional infrastructure security controls designed for dedicated hardware do not always map well to virtual environments. There are risks specifically related to the virtual data lifecycle and the data itself, where there are multiple snapshots and backups of data, which are easy to move and even easier to copy or steal without detection.  Admins and other privileged users often operate independently, raising issues such as data commingling in multi-tenant environments, and difficulties ensuring separation of duties between cloud service provider and the organization’s own super-users. Even in private clouds and more isolated environments like virtual datacenters, data is still often stored in plain text and is at risk of exposure. 

ProtectV provides the industry’s first comprehensive high-assurance solution for securing data in the virtual datacenter and the cloud, enabling organizations the freedom to migrate to virtual and cloud while maintaining full ownership, compliance and control of data.  

Data protection

ProtectV bridges the physical to virtual security gap providing adaptive virtualized security controls that allows organizations to secure their data and maintain a consistent security policy as they transition to virtual datacenters, such as VMware vCenter, and into the cloud.  Whether using Amazon Web Services EC2 for easy-to-scale capacity, or taking advantage of Amazon VPC to run AWS resources in a virtual network, ProtectV ensures cloud-ready security.  With complete encryption of virtual machines and storage volumes coupled with pre-launch authentication, security teams can properly isolate sensitive assets and maintain ownership of their data always —even in shared, multi-tenant clouds. 

Data compliance

To ensure that organizations sustain their compliance status with a slew of industry and governmental regulations such as PCI DSS and HIPAA HITECH, security admins have to be able to enforce proper controls and present a trusted audit trail, regardless of where the data is hosted or who is hosting it. ProtectV together with SafeNet KeySecure provides a high-assurance data compliance solution for undisputed command and proof of ownership for data and keys.

Proof of Governance

In virtual and cloud environments, security policy admins and IT admins need to ensure maintain separation of duties and control over sensitive assets.  And in the cloud environments, this problem is compounded as security teams need to overcome their inherently limited visibility while still maintaining control over their sensitive assets.  With ProtectV, enterprises and their compliance auditors are assured proof of governance through the deepest visibility through a single and centralized policy enforcement and audit point.