Fortanix Inc. announced that the Fortanix Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS) has earned the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 3 certification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
This achievement enables businesses to replace legacy encryption technologies, including Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), with the Fortanix SDKMS encryption platform for protecting the most sensitive data in the U.S. Government, technology, financial services and healthcare industries.
SDKMS has been built on HSM-grade security, secures any KMS use case including TDE, storage multi-cloud and blockchain. SDKMS also delivers tokenization, secrets management and HSM; central management, audit and control. It also comes secured with Intel SGX, built for cloud scale/resiliency, SDKMS reduces threats and consolidates costs.
As part of the certification, Fortanix passed strict government requirements for Level 3 certifications, validating the Fortanix SDKMS cryptographic protections and ability to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of protected information. Customers in the U.S. Government, financial services, healthcare and other regulated industries have specific private data such as passwords and PIN numbers that must be encrypted using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified cryptographic modules.
For decades, businesses in highly regulated industries have been locked into HSM appliances that are costly to operate, difficult to scale, and lack the modern RESTful programming interfaces required by application developers to bring new applications to market and migrate them to the public cloud.
With Fortanix SDKMS, businesses can lower their operating costs up to 70 percent, scale across multi-site and multi-cloud environments, and accelerate application development through modern cryptographic services.
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