Server Encryption

What is Server Encryption?

Server Encryption - Workload encryption, access control, and key management

Reduce operational challenges and increase the security of your business line break

Today, your critical data is spread across multiple locations – office servers, virtualized infrastructure, private enterprise clouds, and public cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and more. This makes controlling all your data more difficult than ever – especially when it's moved between servers or VMs. Server Encryption becomes more important, especially when your IT infrastructure moves to the cloud.

The biggest security challenge for today's businesses is to offer a well-managed, fully integrated encryption strategy that protects their critical data, no matter where it resides or how far it moves. One that supports productivity – while protecting your customers, your IP, and your business reputation. The good news? Server Encryption can help you achieve all of this – simply and cost-effectively.

With the broadest support for physical, virtualized, public and private clouds, Server Encryption enables a fully unified encryption strategy for all your workloads in any terminal, virtualized, or cloud IaaS environment.

Server Encryption increases enterprise security, facilitates encryption compliance, reduces complexity, and removes enterprise encryption silos. Plus, it does it all on a single platform, with simplified visibility and management from a single pane of glass. Critically, you also get exclusive control of all your encryption keys, further reducing the risk of unauthorized breaches or key transfer.

Under increasing pressure to add more value and reduce costs, businesses everywhere have already made the move to cloud or virtualized environments. But in terms of data security, they bring challenges of their own – especially in terms of time, manpower and cost of the administrative team.

Reduce encryption challenges and improve your business security

Server Encryption helps reduce the management workload on your teams of IT administrators, simplifying and automating key security tasks, and reducing costs. This includes full remote management and deployment thanks to Server Encryption – an integral part of WinMagic's encryption and key management solution.

The WinMagic SES console provides a complete overview of all your VMs, workloads, and cloud instances. You'll be able to quickly identify which VMs are secure, identify the ones that need attention, and, using the specialized toolkit, recover them quickly – accordingly.

A true visionary in cloud security, virtual server security, and virtualization space, this approach to cloud security is unique. It is understood that a true foundation for data security requires your company to have ultimate responsibility and control over its own data and its keys.

The current cloud service provider (CSP) model adds a significant impediment to this goal. By leaving your encryption keys in control of the CSP, you run the risk of the keys being accessed by unauthorized CSP administrators, discovered in a side attack, or disclosed to government parties without your knowledge. Operating system-specific security, lack of portability cloud compliance, and complexity of managing disparate solutions add to the numerous security flaws.

Connect security holes and improve your compliance in the cloud

Without more comprehensive key management and stronger authentication, these native encryption solutions may not be enough to meet regulatory requirements – or prevent more advanced attacks. Until recently, customers had no choice but to hand over the key to all their data in the cloud. Now, WinMagic is offering another way to securely solidify access control for businesses.

The encryption feature in Server Encryption on the guest ensures that the encryption keys remain under the exclusive control of the company at all times, greatly reducing the risk of a data breach due to key loss or unauthorized access.

Encryption and key management go hand in hand. Both are essential partners in data security. Your key management policy needs to work across all the different platforms used across the enterprise, protecting your organization's data wherever it resides. However, some fear introducing tighter key management controls as they can be potentially complex and decrease productivity. Not with WinMagic.

Increase productivity and business flow

Leverage a single, enterprise-controlled platform for all your cloud security strategies. You'll be able to enforce policies on who and where data can be accessed and read, so that even when you leave the company, your data remains fully protected from unauthorized access.

You can use this same policy mechanism to enforce internal data compliance conditions, good data governance, and legal requirements for data protection. What's more, the experience is fully transparent and almost frictionless for end users – never affecting business performance or productivity.

Physical server security

Protect physical servers from theft and loss of malicious information or third-party intrusions. SecureDoc CloudVM locks down data, ensuring you have complete control over encryption keys and giving you the visibility and control you need to meet any compliance demands – while feeling confident that your data is safe.

Virtual server security

Enjoy complete data protection, even in your Hybrid Cloud IaaS environment. SecureDoc CloudVM supports the portability needed to maintain agility and protection.

Public and private cloud security

Integrating the full encryption of your private cloud with a huge range of public cloud encryption services, SecureDoc CloudVM offers all the advantages of a fully unified encryption strategy.

System Requirements

Operating system

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit or higher (with all the latest critical updates installed)

RAM

Minimum of 4 GB of RAM, with 8 GB or more recommended.

Hard disk

Minimum of 40 GB of free space or more recommended (varies depending on the number of packages and usage).

CPU

1.4 GHz 64-bit processor or higher.

Database software

Microsoft SQL Server 64-bit 2012 or higher.

Free Express version of SQL Server 2012 or higher.