National data breach disclosure laws include the UK Data Protection Act, EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act, Australian Privacy Act and others.

Data breach protection and prevention is not as simple as implementing hardware level disk encryption or OS level encryption within systems. Attacks are increasingly able to penetrate perimeter defenses, compromise accounts, and mine data without targets even being aware of the attack. With this kind of activity, simple encryption schemes won’t prevent a data breach – attackers will access accounts that allow them to decrypt and extract personal data. Driving this are criminal groups willing and able to pay for stolen personal information that has direct monetary value.

A data-centric focus on preventing the loss of personal information in order to comply with data breach disclosure laws requires:

• Encryption of personal data wherever it resides – including file systems databases, web repositories, cloud environments, big data environments and virtualization implementations.
• Policy-based access controls to assure that only authorized accounts and processes can see the data.
• Monitoring of authorized accounts accessing data, to ensure that these accounts have not been compromised.

Thales eSecurity's Vormetric Data Security Platform provides key components of the solution to implementing data-centric security. These include security controls that enable organizations to safeguard and audit the integrity of customer records and information against a broad range of threats against data. Thales eSecurity data breach protection solutions are transparent to existing operating processes and applications for rapid implementation of protection from data breaches.

This single platform solution to multiple data breach protection needs helps organizations meet compliance requirements with low TCO and an easy-to-deploy, centrally managed infrastructure and solution set.

Vormetric Transparent Encryption from Thales eSecurity provides file and volume level data-at-rest encryption and integrated, secure key management with a best practices implementation. Access controls and data access monitoring information extend protection from data breaches by limiting data access to only personnel and programs authorized to do so. The same data provides the security intelligence information required for the Security Information and Event Management solution to identify accounts that may represent a threat because of a malicious insider, or a compromise of account credentials by malware.

Vormetric Application Encryption from Thales eSecurity adds another layer of data breach protection, enabling organizations to easily build encryption capabilities into internal applications at the field and column level.

Vormetric Key Management from Thales eSecurity enables centralized management of encryption keys for other environments and devices including KMIP compatible hardware, Oracle and SQL Server TDE master keys and digital certificates.