Technology collaboration continues to deliver flexible technologies that support hybrid IT models without sacrificing security or control
“Our focus is on applications—front and center,” said
Today’s enterprises seek to embrace the cost and efficiency benefits of cloud but find themselves with the daunting task of securely managing data and encryption capabilities across private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. At the same time, many organizations have found that third-party cloud service provider offerings around KMS (key management services) can quickly add complexity—with each provider maintaining a different set of security keys—and fall short of protecting on-premises components, such as those required for an end-to-end hybrid cloud HSM service. Given that organizations are often charged with supporting legacy systems as well, this previous lack of extensibility has limited the appeal of moving certain applications and data to the cloud.
The joint Equinix and F5 solution brings together HSM and KMS capabilities into a cloud-agnostic HSM as a Service offering to deliver the security and simplicity required for both hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Specifically, the integration of SmartKey and BIG-IP provides a network-based solution that preserves the ability to perform a full suite of key lifecycle management functions as a service in the cloud. This approach promotes valuable use cases, including SSL termination, acceleration and offloading, as well as data encryption and decryption, without prohibitive trade-offs around complexity or security.
“Through an integrated, out-of-the-box SSL key management solution, F5
and Equinix technologies accelerate the performance of secure network
applications,” said
Both F5 and Equinix will be at RSA
2019, taking place March 4–8 in
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