Prime Factors Joins Utimaco’s U.Trust Technology Partner Program

Utimaco, a leading provider of professional IT security solutions, announces a technology partnership with Prime Factors, a global leader in application level data protection.

Aachen, Germany, & Eugene (OR), USA, 11 February 2020: Utimaco, a leading provider of professional IT security solutions, announces a technology partnership with Prime Factors, a global leader in application level data protection.  Together, Utimaco and Prime Factors will ensure seamless interoperability between Utimaco’s CryptoServer general purpose hardware security modules (HSMs) and Prime Factors’ EncryptRIGHT® application level data protection software to help enterprises more easily protect sensitive data at the application layer.

Most data breaches occur at the application layer, where data is more exposed than when it is secured at rest.  However, most data protection solutions, such as disk encryption, transparent database encryption (TDE), or file structure level encryption, simply do not address application level data protection. And the traditional approach to application level encryption, which involves interweaving cryptographic functionality into applications themselves, can be very complex and time consuming.  This leaves many enterprises with the same perception: application level data protection is too hard to be practical.

“Prime Factors has long been committed to delivering software solutions that reduce complexity and improve data security for our many global customers from diverse industries and geographies,” said Jose Diaz, Vice President – Products & Services at Prime Factors. “We believe that in order to truly simplify implementing and managing application level data security, ‘how data protection is applied’ should be abstracted from the applications themselves and application programmers shouldn’t need to be cryptography experts.  And this is exactly what EncryptRIGHT most fundamentally addresses – enabling application-native data protection in as little as 3 lines of code. Our collaboration with Utimaco provides a tested solution with proven interoperability and ease of integration to help further reduce the friction of protecting sensitive data where it counts most.”

The joint solution from Utimaco and Prime Factors drastically reduces the complexity of application level data protection. EncryptRIGHT® allows enterprises to quickly and easily define and enforce how sensitive data is protected, who can access the secured data and what format the data takes when access is granted – all with hardened cryptography secured by a FIPS 140-2 compliant hardware security module from Utimaco.  Applications simply reference an EncryptRIGHT® data protection policy name and ask for a piece of data to be secured, and everything related to data security governance is orchestrated – from managing cryptographic keys, to applying encryption algorithms or data masks, to facilitating role-based access controls.

“Data protection has never been more important, nor has it ever been more complex,” said Mario Galatovic, Director Strategic Partnerships at Utimaco.  “We remain committed to helping our customers better address the complexities related to protecting data and complying with stringent industry standards and regulations, such as the EU’s GDPR and other regional data protection laws.  Solutions like these, that simplify application level data protection, allow our global customers to more easily take full advantage of the Root of Trust provided by Utimaco hardware in order to better protect their sensitive data.”

Request a live demo of EncryptRIGHT® with Utimaco SecurityServer HSM integration here.