Voltage, PerspecSys Partner for Cloud Data Encryption Solutions

Cloud applications encryption is coming up again, and this time it's two companies working together in the hopes of improving the security of cloud apps and the data contained therein. Voltage Security, which is known for its data-centric encryption and key management solutions, and PerspectSys, an enterprise cloud data protection solutions vendor, have combined efforts to create a solution the vendors promise will increase the level of security and application usability when it comes to cloud data protection.

The solution includes Voltage's Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE) technology, which has been integrated with PerspecSys' Cloud Data Protection Gateway product. The end solution uses Voltage's end-to-end encryption and stateless key management technologies and PerspecSys' cloud data protection platform. The goal is to give enterprises more control over their sensitive data—and protect it before it even leaves the corporation's environment for processing and storage in the cloud.

According to Voltage and PerspecSys, the combined product addresses three critical security and usability requirements that today's enterprises have when it comes to using encryption technology in the cloud—encryption that works within cloud application constraints, the ability to be transparent to cloud application end users and strong, reviewed and approved encryption.

"For enterprise customers, identifying a secure and straightforward way to rapidly move to the cloud is a top priority, but they realize that some options in this marketplace are inherently insecure," said Jeremy Stieglitz, vice president of business development at Voltage Security, in a prepared statement.

According to Gerry Grealish, PerspecSys' vice president of marketing and products, the two companies are jointly working with customers to help improve the strong encryption security and flexibility they need in today's cloud computing world.

Even though cloud security may not be the big red flag for businesses that it was a couple of years ago, security is naturally a top-of-mind issue and not something that enterprises want to slack off on. Together, Voltage and PerspecSys plan to meet the needs of enterprises across security, risk, compliance, privacy and IT in general.