Overcoming CipherTrust Manager Hurdles: 10 Reasons to Seek Support

CipherTrust Manager is a strong enterprise key management tool. By providing a centralized key management system, it helps manage encryption keys and security policies. Important key life cycle management operations like creation, rotation, deactivation or deletion, import, and export are managed by CipherTrust Manager. This approach simplifies key management tasks and lowers the possibility of human error and unauthorized access by enhancing security.

Organizations can greatly benefit from this solution because of its features, which include ABAC (Attribute-based access control), integration with FIPS 140-2 complaint HSM for key storage ensuring the highest root of trust, APIs, and SDKs for direct integration, organizations can really benefit from this product. It is simpler to identify and categorize data, establish policies, and safeguard sensitive data when using a unified management console.

CipherTrust Manager is a complex security solution that requires specialized knowledge and expertise to be managed effectively.

10 Reasons to Choose CipherTrust Manager Support Service

The following are the top 10 reasons how an organization can benefit from external support in managing CipherTrust Manager.

1. Complexity of Initial Deployment

Rolling out the product for the first time can be challenging because you need to grasp its basics. You should plan the rollout, set things up precisely, and keep your company’s security landscape in mind. For example, the product comes in different versions: k170v for simplified and centralized key management, etc., and k470v to support high transaction-per-second encryption operations, centralized key management, and many more.

In this case, you need to know the product and what your company needs to pick the right version and for your deployment. You’ll also want to take extra steps to ensure CipherTrust Manager is set up in a suitable environment for your setup, as the solution can be deployed on-premises, on the cloud, and in a hybrid environment.

CipherTrust Manager serves various functionalities and features to ensure robust data protection.

• Its centralized key lifecycle management and automated operations simplify the management of your encryption keys.
• It also allows the administrator to set multiple approvals for sensitive operations.
• It provides centralized administration, which unifies key management operations with role-based access control.
• It also offers centralized management of your security policy, making it easier to update and modify policies on a single platform.

Encryption Consulting’s support teams provide expertise about the product and the deployment process. We can demonstrate the feasibility and viability of the product in your environment. While deploying, we can ensure that the solution meets all your business requirements. We can also create a timeline to properly set up the solution, making it easier for businesses to allocate resources as needed.

Our support team can help you with functional requirements, such as features, integrations, and functionalities, and non-functional requirements, such as security, reliability, scalability, and flexibility of the product, conducting tests at each stage and troubleshooting any issues.

Our support team can understand and identify use cases of this product in your organization. For example, different services can use different encryption keys in an organization, each managed by a different team. CipherTrust Manager can centrally manage all these keys, and the external support team can assist you.

2. Ongoing Management and Maintenance

Managing CipherTrust Manager is more than just a one-time job; it is a continuous process. It needs ongoing work to keep things running. You’ll have to handle tasks such as adding new security and encryption policies, onboarding new applications, regular health checks, and daily performance monitoring, which can pile up as your company grows. It is also important to understand the organization’s operational environment and identify the daily tasks to keep everything smooth and running. CipherTrust Manager, managed by experienced professionals, can play an important role in creating a great security posture.

For instance, the health of the CipherTrust Manager should be checked daily for any alerts that can indicate possible security breaches. The key usage needs to be monitored regularly to identify potential misuse. The product’s performance must also be looked after to ensure smooth functioning. Creating a regular backup of CipherTrust Manager keys, configurations, and policies is also important.

External support can provide expertise in all the frequent tasks to encrypt sensitive (PII/PHI) data, such as:

• regular health checkups as required
• creation of new security and encryption policies as required
• onboarding new applications as required
• routinely provide real-time insights into the performance and optimize it for peak efficiency
• routinely updating the key rotation policy set for the encryption keys as required
• routinely update access control to adapt to organizational changes
• Remain updated on the new capabilities of CipherTrust and check how those capabilities align with your organization’s requirements.

These tasks include managing and maintaining the CipherTrust Manager while regular business operations are carried out. This regular oversight ensures that any new requirement is evaluated on time and changes are made to adapt.

3. Expertise in Handling Compliance and Regulatory Requirements

The regulations and compliances an organization must adhere to vary from organization to organization based on their location and their industry. Data protection laws and standards are constantly updated to keep up with evolving cyber threats. From FIPS 140-3 standard for cryptographic modules, PCI-DSS for payment data, and GDPR in Europe to HIPPA in healthcare, staying compliant with many standards simultaneously can be complex and challenging. CipherTrust Manager is made to help organizations navigate these complexities, but successfully adhering to various compliance measures often requires certain expertise.

Considering the financial sector, certain compliance like the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) require detailed record-keeping and reporting. External support can guide you in ensuring logging and reporting features are correctly configured and meticulously monitoring the audit trails.

External support teams are usually updated with the latest regulatory changes and understand how CipherTrust can be configured to meet all the requirements. They can guide organizations to understand the regulations and ensure that the data protection strategies established by them align with those set standards.

It takes a proper understanding of compliances and regulatory requirements to align with them. While research can help individuals study them in detail to understand them, configuring a product to adhere to all set standards can have challenges. It takes an expert’s help to deploy a product for optimized performance while following the regulatory requirements. It saves substantial time and energy if organizations get the experts to do complex tasks like this.

4. Customization and Integration with Existing Systems

CipherTrust Manager offers a high degree of flexibility regarding customization and integration with existing systems. It is important that CipherTrust Manager properly integrates with an organization’s existing IT and security setup. This integration can include connecting to databases, cloud environments, ERP systems, tools used, and several other applications present in an enterprise. This level of integration can be daunting if there is a lack of adequate knowledge of both CipherTrust and the current system.

Let’s take the example of a large organization using AWS XKS (External Key Store) to store encryption keys in external key management outside AWS. AWS External Key Store (XKS) is a new capability in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) that allows customers to protect their data in AWS using encryption keys held inside CipherTrust Manager or Luna Network HSM external to AWS.

This enables organizations to move critical workloads to the cloud while properly managing encryption keys. CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager (CCKM), a licensed component of the CipherTrust Manager, delivers key generation, separation of duties, reporting, and key lifecycle management to help fulfill internal and industry data protection standards.

Classifying the various forms of data that are present in various databases and defining proper data management policies can be a challenging task. Understanding what sensitive data is, where and how it is held, and who can access it is the first step toward compliance. CipherTrust Manager can create connections to databases using certain connection information such as host address and port or upload a CA certificate to CipherTrust Manager to connect through SSL protocol.

Once a connection is formed, Thales CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification, integrated with CipherTrust Manager, can efficiently locate most data types across file servers and traditional databases, including Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server. With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption, you can apply strong database encryption with minimal effort and performance implications.

External support teams can help you define the integration plan in detail for complex integration, allocate the necessary resources, and test your integration at every step. They can assess the compatibility of applications with CipherTrust Manager and recommend appropriate integration strategies. They can help you identify and analyze the critical applications and prioritize the encryption and integration process. External consultants can provide troubleshooting assistance and resolve any issues arising during the database integration.

5. Discover and Protect Sensitive Data

Types of cyber threats are emerging frequently, and the complexity of these threats increases progressively. While reactive measures must be in place to tackle such threats, more is needed. CipherTrust provides a smart protection tool called CipherTrust Intelligent Protection (CIP).

This tool enables customers to discover and protect their sensitive data. They can use CipherTrust’s Data Discovery and Classification (DDC) to determine the type of data that exists in all the data stores. Depending on the data identified by the DDC, the CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE) can be configured to protect the data.

When the CIP is implemented with DDC for the identification and categorization of the data and using the CTE for the encryption of the data, organizations can evaluate all the information, identify and safeguard sensitive info, and classify it according to various data protection regulations. CipherTrust Intelligent Protection defines the most suitable remediation actions based on the classification risk; this reduces the level of complexity and improves operational effectiveness.

It can be difficult to fully understand many features and capabilities of CipherTrust without prior knowledge and exposure to the solution.  Encryption Consulting’s support teams have experience working with many functionalities CipherTrust Manager offers. We have the expertise to determine which feature fits your infrastructure best and leverage it to gather maximum benefits.

6. Scalability and Futureproofing

To adapt to the growing demands of expanding businesses, CipherTrust Manager has been designed to be scalable. Its features and architecture allow it to store many kinds of data, handle a greater workload, and integrate with other systems. CipherTrust uses a REST interface, and the microservice architecture approach allows scaling in your environment.

However, scaling CipherTrust Manager is not easy and time-consuming, and it needs a strong level of planning and specialization to implement the modifications effectively. Depending on the company’s growth objectives, external support teams like Encryption Consulting – can help expand CipherTrust Manager.

Consider a rapidly expanding software company that used CipherTrust Manager at first to protect several significant applications. They now wish to extend the system to cover other organizational domains, such as cloud services or global operations. The CipherTrust Manager can be horizontally scaled by expanding the cluster with additional hardware nodes.

The distributed architecture used in the solution’s design aims to maximize redundancy and high availability. Encryption Consulting’s support team can help in this scaling process. To enable the system to carry out large-scale encryption and decryption as efficiently as possible, they make sure that encryption keys and rules are implemented in regions where the solution is expanded with optimization techniques contained in the solution.

CipherTrust Manager’s microservice design makes it simple to incorporate new features and functions as they become available. Because CipherTrust Manager offers APIs, it can be easily integrated with other apps and systems and is flexible enough to adjust to changing IT environments.

Encryption Consulting’s teams have the expertise required to incorporate new features and APIs in any way necessary. They can offer suggestions for modifying CipherTrust Manager to meet future needs, like working with new cloud platforms using new encryption methods or preparing for an upcoming change in standards. Additionally, when you grow your system to meet your needs, they can ensure you consistently adhere to security best practices.

7. Cost-Effective Resource Allocation

It may not be financially feasible for many small and medium-sized organizations to handle CipherTrust Manager within the company. The costs of employing and training special staff, managing and maintaining the necessary infrastructure, and keeping up with the current standards of the industry can pile up fast. Professional support teams may be of great help in allocating CipherTrust resources in an efficient manner, enabling enterprises to achieve cost-effective data security.

External assistance providers such as Encryption Consulting provide a range of service levels, from completely managed services to simple tech support. We can assist in identifying the organization’s most important data and assets that must be protected to the highest standard possible.

We can suggest the best way to distribute CipherTrust resources, such as hardware, software, and encryption keys, based on the critical assets that have been identified. This range enables organizations to select the ideal service level based on their demands and budget.

Moreover, we can help analyze performance problems within the CipherTrust environment. We can recommend specific configuration changes to boost performance and reduce resource consumption. Assume that the company operates CipherTrust in a cloud setting. In such a scenario, by utilizing cloud-specific capabilities like auto-scaling and on-demand provisioning, external experts can aid in optimizing resource allocation.

Getting help from external support can reduce indirect expenses associated with internal CipherTrust Manager management. Companies can ensure their CipherTrust Manager setup is handled well and effectively by giving these responsibilities to external experts. This lets them use their internal resources for other important business tasks.

8. Specialized Knowledge and Skills

CipherTrust Manager is an effective solution with many applications, including key management, encryption policy enforcement, compliance reporting, audit monitoring, and resource scaling utilizing best practices. Organizations may benefit greatly from the specific knowledge and abilities that external support teams and experts have in relation to CipherTrust Manager.

Experts at Encryption Consulting can understand and review the current state of the organizations and their readiness for Tokenization, Format-Preserving Encryption, Data obfuscation, and other data protection controls.

External experts, like Encryption Consulting, can assist with configuring CipherTrust Manager for complex use cases, such as integrating multiple data sources or implementing advanced encryption algorithms and tokenization. They can conduct in-depth investigations to determine the underlying causes of problems with CipherTrust Manager and develop effective solutions.

They can suggest which features best fit your business requirements as they understand various features, such as CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager, CipherTrust Application Data Protection, and CipherTrust TDE Key Management of CipherTrust Manager.

Consider a multinational corporation that has branches across many nations. It might be challenging to manage encryption keys in multiple locations. Local laws may vary from place to place regarding data protection, so you should be aware of how they may affect the encryption technique you choose. Support teams can assist in configuring CipherTrust Manager to abide by these regulations as they have experience with global data protection regulations. This guarantees that the business won’t run into legal issues.

Additionally, support teams are equipped with the knowledge and abilities to collaborate with a wide range of sectors that face data protection issues. Whether it’s ensuring a healthcare provider complies with HIPAA rules, managing encryption for a government office, or protecting customer data for a large retail company, support teams provide an adequate number of experiences that can be significant in addressing the challenges of CipherTrust Manager.

9. Minimizing Risk and Ensuring Business Continuity

The consequences of improper management of CipherTrust Manager are significant and complex. Data leaks damage a company’s reputation for a considerable amount of time and result in severe financial and legal problems. Moreover, failing to maintain continuous and effective encryption might lead to compliance breaches, which have consequences. External help lets companies cut these risks by offering skilled management for CipherTrust Manager.

For instance, managing encryption keys across several data centers and cloud configurations takes a lot of work in large organizations. CipherTrust Data Security Platform solutions are highly scalable and address your database protection requirements without degrading performance. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption has been field-tested in performance-intensive environments, with proven scalability to support 50,000 cryptographic transactions per second.

Because CipherTrust is a centralized key management solution, it can handle encryption keys in various circumstances. External experts can be proficient in understanding several capabilities of the solution and integrate everything properly, minimizing the risk that can be caused by misconfiguration. By managing the solution following legal standards and industry best practices, the external support team can assist in lowering the risk of data loss and security breaches.

An important aspect to take into account is business continuity. To keep operations going in the case of a disaster, such as a cyberattack or system failure, businesses need to be able to access their encrypted data again. Organizations can collaborate with experts, such as Encryption Consulting, to create and test incident response strategies for handling security breaches and other crises.

We can train staff members to handle emergencies and adhere to protocols. We can assist in creating disaster recovery strategies to ensure that operations can be restored during a disaster. To reduce the negative effects of disruptions on operations, we can help firms in creating business continuity strategies. By doing this, the firm can minimize downtime, limit the impact on business operations, and guarantee that it can quickly recover from a disruption.

10. Focus on Core Business Objectives

Even if most businesses understand how important data protection is, there may be other priorities. Operating CipherTrust Manager in-house might take attention away from other important business objectives like expanding the market, improving customer service, or developing new products. Businesses can meet their data security requirements without jeopardizing their main business objectives by contracting with external support to handle CipherTrust Manager.

The common tasks that are usually associated with operating the CipherTrust Manager can be handled by support teams. This covers policy reviews, routine inspections, maintenance, and addressing complex issues. This allows internal teams to concentrate on important tasks that promote business growth and development. For instance, a tech business could put its efforts into developing new software, knowing that external experts would manage the implementation of CipherTrust Manager and protect client data.

Moreover, these external support teams like us often bring a broader outlook. We can provide fresh perspectives and insights on how data protection can align with and support wider business objectives. They may assist businesses in finding ways to improve business operations through the usage of CipherTrust Manager’s capabilities. This might involve improving data governance, simplifying compliance processes, or enabling secure collaboration with partners and customers.

Encryption Consulting Support Service for CipherTrust Manager

We’ve been running CipherTrust Manager for years. We are experts on this product and know its many advantages for your business. We are available to assist you whenever you need us most. We can support you from the initial deployment of CipherTrust Manager to give you the best results. We also provide monitoring and help around the clock (24/7). We provide our services through a subscription model, which allows businesses to use our service for a specific period. During that time, we will offer you whatever help they need. This covers routine maintenance, system upgrades, fixing issues to keep everything functioning, and monthly touchups.

We make sure CipherTrust Manager integrates seamlessly with all your present and future applications and systems, offering you the most efficient management procedures for your needs. We help you put the best key management processes into effect throughout your company so that you comply with security requirements.

We tailor our services to your requirements and offer the most relevant support for your company. An additional benefit we provide is an on-demand subscription to help your team become more proficient at using CipherTrust Manager. We help you understand the product better to avoid mistakes and guide your team correctly using CipherTrust Manager.

Our team has worked with the CipherTrust Manager for years. This makes them experts in handling even the trickiest setups and solving issues to keep your operations running without trouble. We know each company has its own unique needs. That’s why we can tailor our services to fit your needs. We allow you to pick the most useful and effective support your company needs. This way, you can get the most out of what we offer.

Conclusion

CipherTrust Manager plays a key role for companies that must keep sensitive information safe, handle encryption keys, and comply with various regulatory requirements. However, setting up, managing, and keeping CipherTrust Manager going can take a lot of work for companies to do independently. Getting help from external support gives companies the expertise, tools, and strategic guidance they need. This ensures CipherTrust Manager does what it’s supposed to – protect data well and follow the rules.

Companies can benefit from specialized knowledge, proactive threat detection, and cost-effective resource allocation by teaming up with external support. External support can also ensure that the CipherTrust Manager setup fits the company’s needs, is scalable for future growth, and aligns with the organization’s broader business goals. In today’s complex and regulated digital world, getting external support for CipherTrust Manager isn’t just a nice addition to the project—it’s a key part of a full plan to keep data safe.