Best Cloud Encryption Software

Ciphercloud's offerings include CipherCloud for Cloud Discovery, CipherCloud for Salesforce, CipherCloud for SAP SuccessFactors, CipherCloud for Adobe Analytics, CipherCloud for ServiceNow, and CipherCloud for Box. The company is a pioneer and an industry leader in encrypting critical information in the cloud. Cuphercloud's Active Cloud Encryption delivers a full sclae protection to the data and prevents unauthorized access whether in the cloud or on mobile devices. The platform offers multi-cloud protection across the widest range of cloud apps. Also, CipherCloud is the sole vendor that facilitates automated workflows, triggers, bulk IT operations and other business-critical operations.

Gemalto specializes in mobile platforms and services, mobile embedded software and products, payment, government programs, machine to machine (Internet of Things (IoT)), and enterprise security. Gemalto is formed by the merger of Axalto Holding N.V., a specialist in telephone chip cards and telecommunication, and Gemplus International S.A., a prepaid phone cards provider. The company has set up 30 R&D centers and has a high focus on R&D with 3,000 digital scientists in the R&D team. The company has a diversified clientele that includes more than 2 billion customers across the geographic regions of North America, MEA, Europe, APAC, and Latin America. Gemalto caters to various verticals, such as BFSI, healthcare, telecom and IT, government and utilities, and automotive.

HyTrust progressed in the cloud encryption market by providing encryption technology for public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. HyTrust helps customers in safeguarding their data in the cloud environment with enhanced encryption technologies. The company provides products, such as CloudControl Virtualization Security, DataControl Cloud Encryption, and KeyControl Key Management in the cloud encryption market. HyTrust DataControl provides encryption and key control for cloud and virtualization environment, and supports DAS, NAS, or SAN storage. DataControl is independent of the hypervisor and supports both Windows and Linux virtual (or physical) machines. It provides encryption for data at rest. The capabilities of HyTrust Data Control include strong encryption, simplified key management, hardware-accelerated encryption, and the ability to initially encrypt the existing data (or rekey data) while VMs and applications continue to run. The algorithm used by HyTrust is FIPS-approved AES, which supports 128 and 256 bit keys. Key management is provided via HyTrust KeyControl, a FIPS 140-2 Level 1-validated soft-appliance cluster. HyTrust KeyControl capabilities include a high-availability, security-hardened cluster with a simplified administration GUI, and the ability to talk to hardware HSM devices (including Gemalto’s Luna HSM). KeyControl can also act as a KMIP compliant server. HyTrust KeyControl supports hyperconvergence platforms, such as Cisco UCS/HyperFlex, NetApp FlexPod, Nutanix, SimpliVity/HPE, and Pivot3; cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, IBM Bluemix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and VMware vCloud Air; and virtual environment such as vSphere 6.5. The company is highly renowned for its encryption support for the AWS platform.

Netskope specializes in access control, anomaly detection, discovery, DLP, encryption, incident management, and threat protection. The company provides cloud encryption for various cloud service models, including SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. The company has a large customer base which includes public and private sector organizations from across the globe. Some of the major customers of the company include Genomic Health, InterContinental Hotels Group, Levi Strauss & Co., Nuna International, Toyota, Oak Hill Advisors, and NVIDIA. Netskope provides solutions to various verticals, such as automotive and manufacturing, financial services and insurance, healthcare and life sciences, legal, oil and gas, retail and hospitality, and utilities. Some of the major technological partners of the company include Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Slack.

Parablu's Secure Cloud Gateway or Privacy Gateway utilizes encryption in addition to other techniques to create a barrier to unauthorized access of data inside a secure storage container it creates. Most importantly, Parablu enforces strict segregation of duties ensuring that the encryption and other data obfuscation occurs with the customer in full control over the encryption keys. Parablu's Zero Knowledge Privacy philosophy means that they don't know nor control the encryption keys. The company's management portal allows customers, at any time, to change the initialization vector for the encryption that is used. Another reason their product portfolio stands out is their ability to work with end user cloud storage subscriptions such as OneDrive for Business and Google Drive. Several customers already have subscriptions such as Office 365 or G-Suite purchased for their employees each of whom gets a generous allocation of cloud storage space ranging from 1TB - 5TB.

Secomba specializes in cloud encryption. The company provides a product named Boxcryptor for encryption of files and folders in Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and cloud environment. Boxcryptor is available for both consumers and business teams. The company has been receiving investment from Agile partners, which is helping Secomba to progress in the cloud encryption market. Boxcryptor for teams offers: Enterprise user management through SSO and SCIM support, end-to-end encryption technology, Zero knowledge encryption etc. For individuals, the solution supports almost every cloud storage provider present in the market. It automatically identifies the user's installed cloud storage providers and adds them to the virtual Boxcryptor drive. It also allows users to sync their encrypted data across two of their desired devices.

Skuhigh guarantees Data security on the cloud environment with the help of encryption, key management, tokenization, access control, and information rights management. The company supports various SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS service providers, including Skyhigh for Shadow IT, Skyhigh for Office 365, Skyhigh for Box, Skyhigh for Salesforce, Skyhigh for Slack, Skyhigh for AWS, Skyhigh for Custom Applications, Skyhigh for ServiceNow, Skyhigh for Dropbox, and Skyhigh for Google Drive. The company also customizes its platform capabilities according to the needs of CSPs. With a wide products and solutions portfolio, Skyhigh scores extremely well in the depth and breadth of product offering and product feature and functionality parameters. Skyhigh is one of the leading CASBs to cater platforms with capabilities, such as DLP, encryption, tokenization, and access control, for all major cloud services and applications on IaaS. Skyhigh CASB is compliant with FedRAMP and certified by ISO 27001/27018.

Thales e-Security specializes as a data encryption company for data centers, clouds, big data, and container environments. Thales e-Security has progressed in the cloud encryption market by delivering best-in-class solutions for cloud data encryption, tokenization and data masking, key management, and digital signing. The company provides Vormetric Cloud Encryption Gateway, Vormetric Data Security Manager (DSM), and Vormetric Transparent Encryption. Vormetric Cloud Encryption Gateway encrypts the data before it is transferred to the cloud environment. It also supports virtual machine formats, such as Open Virtualization Format (.ovf) distribution and Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The gateway provides data security blades, which are supported by Amazon S3 and Caringo Object Storage. The data security blades also provide live integration to LDAP and active directory. The Vormetric DSM is one of the key solutions from Thales e-Security for the support of Vormetric Cloud Encryption Gateway. DSM aids in centralized key and policy management, and is capable of supporting various form factors and FIPS 140-2 levels. DSM helps in the efficient centralized management of keys, generated from Thales e-Security products or from Microsoft SQL Server TDE, Oracle TDE, and IBM Guardium Data Encryption. Thales e-Security also provides Vormetric Transparent Encryption, which offers file and volume level data at rest encryption, access controls, and data access audit logging. The company supports encryption for cloud service models, such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Thales e-Security is proficient in managing encryption keys that help customers in integrated key management and nShield BYOK. Vormetric Key Management as a Service (KMaaS), catered from Thales e-Security, guarantees efficient management of keys with key activity reporting, key lifecycle management, and key secure storage for customers. Vormetric KMaaS is supported by Salesforce SaaS-based platform. The company also offers nShield BYOK, which is essential for nShield HSM, to securely store encryption keys for sensitive cloud data, stored on cloud platforms, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The company also provides services, such as 24/7 support and maintenance, training, PKI professional services, and custom cryptographic services. Thales PKI consulting services help customers deploy managed PKIs and comply with policies and standards, WebTrust audit requirements, and federal bridge cross-certificate criteria. The types of PKI consulting services catered by Thales e-Security are PKI solution implementation professional services, PKI solution review services, and PKI and cryptographic security training. The company has a broad range of solutions and services portfolio in the cloud encryption market. Therefore, it scores well in the breadth and depth of product offering parameter, due to advanced product features and functionalities. Thales e-Security has various delivery modes and tie-ups with distributors and resellers, who provide the company’s solutions and services to customers across the globe. The company also provides solutions that can be customized according to the customers’ requirements. Thales is highly focused on product innovations and invests significantly in R&D. Recently, it launched a new version of CipherTrust Monitor, which helps the network security team to monitor the HSM of both kind payShield and nShield.

Trend Micro has progressed in the cloud encryption market by delivering a solution named SecureCloud. SecureCloud secures critical data on the cloud and virtual environment by providing encryption, which is supported with policy-based key management and unique server validation. SecureCloud supports data protection on private cloud, public cloud, and virtual environments. SecureCloud extends its support to Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus, vCloud, RightScale, TCloud, VMware ESX and vSphere, and other virtual environments. SecureCloud delivers keys to the devices in a secure way, and there is no requirement for the deployment of the file system and management infrastructure. SecureCloud aids in data privacy, regulatory compliance, and secure storage recycling. SecureCloud helps customers to be compliant with internal cybersecurity policies and government regulations, such as HIPAA, HITECH, Sarbanes-Oxley, GLB, and PCI-DSS. The encryption algorithms utilized for cloud data encryption are based on AES 256 bit. SecureCloud secures data, metadata, and associated structures without reducing the performance and operational efficiency. SecureCloud utilizes identity- and integrity-based policy enforcement, which makes sure that the keys are delivered only to authorized virtual machines. The product also aids in robust auditing, reporting, alerting, and remotely managing the cipher keys. Trend Micro also offers integrated DLP on network gateways and on cloud. DLP in the cloud environment provides features, such as inspection of the network and cloud environment, tracking of sensitive data, identification of critical business operations, and detection of suspicious data by monitoring keywords, regular expressions, and document attributes.

Vaultive has progressed in the cloud encryption market by catering the Vaultive Cloud Security Platform. The Vaultive Cloud Security Platform acts as an inline cloud data security gateway. The multi-mode architecture integrates with APIs, running on the SaaS environment. The platform encrypts the sensitive data at rest and data in transit. The encryption capability, provided by the platform, aids in format preserving encryption. Format preserving encryption can encrypt both structured and unstructured data while preserving the searching and sorting features on the encrypted data. The company has its own patented algorithm and does not rely on AES 256 bit encryption algorithm. The Vaultive Cloud Security Platform helps enterprises in maintaining context-aware policy controls. The platform has an inbuilt application-aware policy engine that efficiently monitors the user activity in the SaaS environment. The company provides cloud application privilege management that has the capability to produce alerts on detecting any suspicious user activity. The cloud application privilege management blocks suspicious user activity behavior patterns. The platform supports encryption with DLP and continuous cloud authentication. The platform also has the capability to integrate with the leading identity access management solutions to prevent unauthorized access to the critical data. The Vaultive Cloud Security Platform helps enterprises comply with their internal cloud security policies and also with the government regulations, such as FFIEC, EU GDPR, ITAR, and PCI-DSS. The platform supports encryption, DLP, and context-aware monitoring on the sensitive data, which can be stored in cloud service models, such as Office 365, Exchange Online, Dynamics 365, ServiceNow, Slack, Oracle Taleo, AWS, and custom web applications.