CipherCloud unveils Searchable Strong Encryption for cloud data

SAN JOSE, USA: CipherCloud, has delivered ground breaking techniques to improve the searchability, usability and security of cloud data protected with AES 256-bit encryption. Through these advancements, the company continues to extend its technical leadership in cloud information protection by combining the highest levels of security and usability available.

This Searchable Strong Encryption (SSE) solution comes at a time when companies and government agencies are moving increased amounts of information into the cloud, while seeking to proactively protect their sensitive data from breaches, hackers, cyber warfare attacks and forced disclosures. Since its founding in 2010, CipherCloud has led the industry in innovation through developing the most advanced security techniques to protect information in the cloud.

CipherCloud's solution provides organizations with the ability to strongly encrypt their sensitive information in real time before it's sent to the cloud and exclusively retain their encryption keys. The solution also enables organization to comply with government regulations and industry mandates including - GLBA, PCI, HIPAA and HITECH, the EU Data Protection Act, UK ICO guidance, the Australian Privacy Amendment Act and US State Privacy laws.

"Business users demand security to be transparent. Applying strong encryption, AES 256-bit, to data while keeping it entirely searchable has been a long-standing challenge. CipherCloud has now raised the bar by enabling the full usability of encrypted data in the cloud, without compromising security or performance," said Pravin Kothari, founder and CEO of CipherCloud.

CipherCloud delivers full protection of an organization's structured and unstructured information in popular cloud applications including - salesforce.com, Box, Microsoft Office 365, Google Gmail, Amazon Web Services and many more. Additionally, CipherCloud for Any App and CipherCloud for Databases enable organizations to extend data protection to hundreds of third-party cloud and private cloud applications and databases.

"Compliance for sensitive data frequently requires the use of encryption when it is sent across public communication networks. In fact, this should be considered as standard practice for all cloud-based applications accessed via public networks to avoid eavesdropping," said Brian Lowans, principal research analyst, Secure Business Enablement group, and Neil MacDonald, VP and Gartner fellow, Information Security and Privacy Research team, Gartner.

CipherCloud's SSE technology leverages its gateway architecture to provide secure local index and search operations while sending the strongly encrypted data to the cloud and protecting it from all external threats. This solution enables natural language, wild cards and Boolean searches of AES 256-bit encrypted data. Other available techniques on the market lack searchability or require complex deployments of local databases or rely only on partial data encryption. CipherCloud's solution now combines the highest levels of usability and security.