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For many organizations, the option of purchasing and managing encryption keys
on-premises does not align with their vision of using cloud-based infrastructure as
on-demand services. In addition, service providers that want to offer higher levels
of data protection are required to manage encryption solutions on behalf of their
customers, which means increased liability and risk in terms of data access and
complying with customer compliance requirements. As a result, these challenges have
prevented many security conscious companies from migrating sensitive data to the
cloud.

Gemalto’s SafeNet Luna SA platform changes the way service providers and
organizations can manage and store encryption keys in cloud environments. With the
new SafeNet Luna SA, cloud companies can provide all of the security, compliance and
trust of an on-premises HSM appliance while their customers realize the cost,
flexibility and performance benefits of the cloud yet still maintain complete
ownership of their keys. Organizations can now also benefit by being able to choose
the appropriate data encryption strategy for their business whether that be on
premise, cloud-based, or hybrid key management and storage solutions.

"Gemalto’s SafeNet Luna HSM for service providers addresses a current gap in
the market for encryption and key management," said Garrett Bekker, senior
security analyst at 451 Research. "Enterprises that are looking to move more
resources to the cloud are realizing the need for encryption and key management, but
often lack the resources to deploy and manage their own encryption key management
infrastructure. By packaging SafeNet Luna HSM for service providers, enterprises of
all sizes can maintain control of their sensitive keys while taking advantage of the
benefits the cloud provides."

The SafeNet Luna SA can be separated into 100 cryptographically isolated partitions,
with each partition acting as if it were an independent HSM. Within each partition,
a given customer can assign multi-tiered levels of administrative access. The
partitions themselves are designed to protect key material from other tenants on the
same appliance, meaning different customers - or different lines of business within
a single organization - can leverage the same appliance without fear of losing their
keys to other tenants. In addition, service provides have no access to key material
stored on any HSM partition, giving their customers the confidence that only they
have access to their sensitive cryptographic keys.

When encryption and key management can be offered conveniently as a service by
cloud providers, but with the same high-grade protections as if it were fully
on-premises, organizations of all types can reach new levels of efficiency and
security," said Todd Moore, vice president of product management Encryption
Products at Gemalto. "With our new SafeNet Luna SA, we are opening up a
significant opportunity for service providers to grow revenue by offering customers
the ability to control their keys and thereby bring more sensitive data and
workloads to the cloud.

The new SafeNet Luna SA expands Gemalto’s portfolio of encryption, key management
and crypto management products that can be deployed by service providers to enable
greater levels of security in their cloud environments. Along with the SafeNet
Luna SA, Gemalto also offers the SafeNet ProtectV and SafeNet Virtual KeySecure
products which provide robust full-disk encryption for virtual instances and
attached storage volumes and secure key management for data encrypted by ProtectV or
other third-party cloud or on-premises encryption solutions.