SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium™, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable secure
and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and
wireless networking, today announced that its LiquidSecurity 140-2
Level 3 FIPS certified appliance enables seamless key backup and
application scaling with AWS CloudHSM FIPS 140-2 Level 3 service.
Customers can deploy LiquidSecurity HSMs on-premises or in a
private data center, create a backup from a managed HSM instance in
the cloud, and restore the backup to their on-premises HSM. While
the cloud vendor can take backups of customer HSMs, enterprises
with escrow needs will benefit from the ability to securely
transfer and retain access to their keys within a FIPS boundary.
Customers can also utilize this feature to scale in a hybrid cloud
environment.
Cavum's LiquidSecurity HSM family provides high-performance FIPS
140-2 level 3 HSMs that are run-time partitioned for elastic use on
the cloud. It addresses high performance, key management and
administration requirements for symmetric and asymmetric keys. It
also addresses elastic performance per virtual/network domain for
cloud environments, allowing enterprises to migrate on-premises
workloads subject to compliance regulations or with stringent
security requirements to the cloud. Examples include SaaS
applications, e-commerce payment systems and Enterprise, Banking
and Government security applications. SaaS applications which rely on this product family include Key Management as-a-Service,
Database as-a-Service, Crypto as-a-Service, Secure DNS, Virtual
Private Clouds, and payment systems.
Market Dynamics for Cloud Transaction Security
Cavium has observed two major trends driving the requirements
for FIPS-based transaction security in cloud data centers. First,
e-commerce, healthcare and government applications, which
traditionally used FIPS-level security in private data centers, are
migrating to a virtualized/SDN-capable, multi-domain cloud
infrastructure. They need a secure and elastic FIPS solution as
they migrate to the cloud.
Second, enterprise applications that have utilized private keys
-- but did not require FIPS-based security because they were
deployed in private data centers -- are migrating to the cloud as
well. They now require FIPS-level security for the private keys
with high key operation performance in a cloud environment.
Hardware security modules are used as the root of trust for these
sensitive workloads. To date, end users have been challenged to
find an HSM that meets both security requirements such as FIPS
140-2 Level 3 validation, as well as usability requirements such as
elasticity and high transactions per second.
Most enterprises can now utilize fully-managed HSMs on the cloud
to meet these objectives with lower cost and reduced latency. Some
of these end-users also require the additional comfort and
reliability of on-premises backups. In addition to disaster
recovery, this also ensures enterprises have flexibility in moving
between different IaaS providers. The LiquidSecurity solution, by
cloning on-premises HSMs to AWS CloudHSM including users and keys,
allows enterprises to do just that.
Cavium caters to the changing needs of its enterprise customers,
who require secure and authenticated deployments on the cloud,
through its high performance FIPS 140-2 validated solution with
storage for large number of keys, flexible support for large number
of domains, ease of management and migration, and high bandwidth
connectivity with SDN features.
"Cavium's LiquidSecurity HSM family was designed from the ground
up for the cloud and is a proven solution to address the
performance, cost, multi-domain and feature requirements of this
market. We are excited to extend this product family to provide
local backup and dynamic restore capability for customers," said
Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager at Cavium.
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of
infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching,
connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium provides solutions
across low to high performance points enabling secure and
intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service
Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported
by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application
stacks, hardware reference-designs and other products. Cavium is
headquartered in San Jose, CA with
design centers in California,
Massachusetts, India, Israel, China
and Taiwan. For further
information, please visit the investor relations section of the
Cavium web site at http://www.cavium.com.
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