Thales Vormetric’s Data Security Manager (DSM) and Gemalto’s KeySecure product portfolios have been in the market for over a decade. Thales has developed many loyal customers following for the abilities surrounding key management and data encryption.
However, Thales has decided to progress forward to meet customer requirements for a hybrid operating environment/cloud environment and meet the technology advancements by combining the legacy SafeNet KeySecure and Vormetric DSM to generate a “best of breed” solution among the product lines called “Cipher Trust Manager (CTM).”
Encryption Consulting provides Services to ensure that the existing customers of Thales currently using SafeNet KeySecure and Vormetric DSM can migrate to Cipher Trust manager without any hustle
Many challenges come with the end of the support date of a product for the customers. Below are the few common challenges:
Following are the high-level steps that Encryption Consulting will take to migrate from Gemalto SafeNet KeySecure or Vormetric DSM to Cipher Trust Manager:
Below are a few of the benefits of migrating KeySecure/DSM to Cipher Trust Manager
This allows you to manage your encryption keys and ultimately own your data centrally.
Your sensitive data is safe from compromise regardless of where it is stored: in a database, file server, application, traditional or virtualized data center, or public cloud environment.
Gemalto KeySecure offers a hardware root of trust using SafeNet Luna Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), which supports a comprehensive encryption environment that includes both Gemalto and third-party devices.
KeySecure has announced the end-of-life (EOL) and end-of-sale (EOS)as outlined in its notification. The EOL announcements impact the following KeySecure Classic appliances:
External EOS/EOL Announcement to Customers
Date when customers will be informed about End-of-Life
END-OF-SALE (EOS) of Classic KeySecure
Affected product SKU’s will be removed from the Sales Catalog. They cannot be sold after this date.
END-OF-SUPPORT and END-OF-LIFE
Last date that the affected products will be supported.
The Vormetric Data Security Manager (DSM) is the central management point for all Vormetric Data Security Platform products. The DSM creates, stores, and manages data encryption keys and allows enterprises to control every aspect of their Vormetric data security platform implementation.
Administrators can use the Data Security Manager to define data access policies, manage DSM users and logical domains, generate usage reports, register new hosts, examine security logs, and manage third-party keys, digital certificates, and more.
Vormetric product line has announced the EOL, which impacted Vormetric products, including Vormteric DSM.
Following Vormetric DSM products are affected by the EOL announcement:
External EOL Announcement to Customers
Customers informed about End-of-Life. Product moves to Maintenance Mode – only minor enhancements, security and bug fixes available from this date
Last Time Buy
Affected product SKU’s cannot be sold after this date.
END-OF-SUPPORT and END-OF-LIFE of Vormetric Data Security Manager and Vormetric Agents
Affected products no longer supported.
The CipherTrust Data Security Platform’s central management point is CipherTrust Manager. CipherTrust Manager is an enterprise key management solution that allows organizations to centrally manage encryption keys, provide granular access control, and define security policies.
It manages key lifecycle operations such as key generation, rotation, destruction, import, and export and provides role-based access control to keys and policies, robust auditing, and reporting and also has a developer-friendly REST API.
CipherTrust Manager works with FIPS 140-2 compliant Thales Luna or third-party Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to securely store keys with the highest root of trust in virtual and physical appliances.
These appliances can be used to meet compliance requirements, regulatory mandates, and industry best practices for data security on-premises in physical or virtualized infrastructures, as well as in public cloud environments.
It is simple to define policies, identify and classify data, and secure sensitive data wherever it resides with the CipherTrust Data Security Platform products to a unified management console.
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