Strong Encryption, Natural Language Search Make Potent Cocktail

22/10/2013 19:27

 

 

Encrypted data may be relatively safe from prying eyes, but it's often inaccessible to authorized users as well. "Encryption can break an application," said CipherCloud CEO Pravin Kothari. "It can make an application useless." Through a gateway between an organization and its encrypted data in the cloud, CipherCloud allows applications to work with the encrypted data as if were plain text.

 

Strong encryption and natural language search can be like oil and water. That's because encrypted data can't be digested by your typical search engine. However, CipherCloudannounced a solution to that knotty problem last week.

The latest version of the 3-year-old company's cloud-based service includes something it's calling "searchable strong encryption." It allows data encrypted with the strong AES 256-bit standard to be searched within popular cloud applications such as Salesforce.com, Box, Microsoft Office 365, Google Gmail and Amazon Web Services.

"Encryption can break an application," Pravin Kothari, founder, chairman and CEO of CipherCloud, told TechNewsWorld. "It can make an application useless."

Through the use of a gateway between an organization and its encrypted data in the cloud, CipherCloud allows applications to work with the encrypted data as if were plain text.

"If you looked into the cloud application, what you would see is gibberish -- but using our gateway architecture, we can allow all popular operations, like search, and give a user the full usability of the application," Kothari explained.

"Customers had to previously choose between protection of their data and usability of an application," CipherCloud SVP and Chief Marketing Officer Paige Leidig told TechNewsWorld. "With our new product, they can get the best of both worlds -- highest security of their data and full searchability and sortability of the data."

 

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