Scale Applications and Backup Keys
Between AWS CloudHSM & Private Cloud
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17, 2018 – 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.
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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.