CipherCloud introduces cloud encryption for Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift

LAS VEGAS, USA: CipherCloud, a leader in cloud information protection, unveiled CipherCloud for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable users to encrypt data on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Redshift, AWS' petabyte-scale data warehouse service.

Customers can benefit from the cost savings and elasticity of cloud-based data storage while assuring compliance for sensitive data with a wide array of encryption options. The solution enables organizations to automatically encrypt sensitive information on a field-by-field basis, before it goes to the cloud, while retaining the encryption key. CipherCloud is compatible with AWS database services, preserving the critical format and operations, such as searching and sorting.

The solution maximizes security for the cloud by supporting a wide array of encryption options that can be applied on a field-by-field basis. CipherCloud is extending its comprehensive cloud information protection platform, providing AES 256-bit encryption and customer-retained key management to provide tighter control of data in Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift.

Pravin Kothari, founder and CEO of CipherCloud, said: "Privacy regulations around the world require strong data security and compliance to protect sensitive information from hacks, accidental leaks and surveillance. CipherCloud now makes it easy to add strong encryption to any data going to the cloud, without modifying code, or disabling cloud functionality."