SWIFT Customer Security Controls Framework Compliance

SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, is a messaging network that financial institutions use to securely transmit information and instructions through a standardized system of codes.¹

According to SWIFT:

Thales eSecurity can help you comply with all three objectives.

Thales eSecurity can help you comply with the following sections of the CSC Framework:

Section 1.2. “Operating System Privileged Account Control”
Section 5. “Manage Identities and Segregate Privileges”
Section 6. “Detect Anomalous Activity to Systems or Transaction Records”³

The Vormetric Data Security Platform from Thales eSecurity makes it easy and efficient to manage data-at-rest security across your entire organization. Built on an extensible infrastructure, the platform features multiple data security products that can be deployed individually or in combination to deliver advanced encryption, tokenization and centralized key management. This data security solution prepares your organization for the next security challenge and new compliance requirements at the lowest TCO.

• Separation of privileged access users and sensitive user data. With the Vormetric Data Security Platform, administrators can create a strong separation of duties between privileged administrators and data owners. The Vormetric Data Security Platform encrypts files, while leaving their metadata in the clear. In this way, IT administrators—including hypervisor, cloud, storage, and server administrators—can perform their system administration tasks, without being able to gain privileged access to the sensitive data residing on the systems they manage.
• Separation of administrative duties. Strong separation-of-duties policies can be enforced to ensure one administrator does not have complete control over data security activities, encryption keys, or administration. In addition, the Vormetric Data Security Manager supports two-factor authentication for administrative access.
• Granular privileged access controls. Thales eSecurity’s solution can enforce very granular, least-privileged user access management policies, enabling protection of data from misuse by privileged users as well as external attacks. Granular privileged user access management policies can be applied by user, process, file type, time of day, and other parameters. Enforcement options are very granular; they can be used to control not only permission to access clear-text data, but what file-system commands are available to a user.

Detailed data access audit logs delivered by Vormetric Transparent Encryption are useful not only for compliance, but also for the identification of unauthorized access attempts, as well as to build baselines of authorized user access patterns. Vormetric Security Intelligence completes the picture with pre-built integration to leading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems that make this information actionable. The solution allows immediate automated escalation and response to unauthorized access attempts, and all the data needed to build behavioral patterns required for identification of suspicious usage by authorized users.

The Vormetric Data Security Platform is the only solution with a single extensible framework for protecting data-at-rest under the diverse requirements of business services organizations across the broadest range of OS platforms, databases, cloud environments and big data implementations. The result is low total cost of ownership, as well as simple, efficient deployment and operation.

The Vormetric Data Security Manager (DSM) is at the heart of the Thales e-Security product line. The DSM provisions and manages keys for the Vormetric Data Security Platform and manages keys and certificates for third-party devices. It enables centralized management of data security policies and simplifies training, deployment and operations.

Vormetric Data Security Intelligence from Thales e-Security provides another level of protection from malicious insiders, privileged users, APTs and other attacks that compromise data by delivering the access pattern information that can identify an incident in progress.

Vormetric Transparent Encryption from Thales e-Security provides file and volume level data-at-rest encryption, secure key management and access controls required by regulation and compliance regimes.

Vormetric Application Encryption enables organizations to easily build encryption capabilities into internal applications at the field and column level.