Gemalto launches SafeNet Multi-Link High Speed Encryptor

Gemalto, the digital security provider, has released the SafeNet Multi-Link High Speed Encryptor (HSE), which provides the equivalent of 10 by 10 Gbps high-speed encryptors in one unit for a total encrypted bandwidth of 100 Gbps. Gemalto finalised the acquisition of SafeNet in January 2015.

As large enterprises and service providers deploy additional network links at increased speeds across their networks to support growing bandwidth demands, the 4U Gemalto SafeNet CN8000 enables cost-effective implementation of high-speed encryption - protecting sensitive data from interception without compromising network speed and performance.

Designed to support the highest security criteria, the CN8000 utilises embedded quantum random number generation to guarantee high-quality randomness for protection against targeted crypto-attacks. Its multi-link design includes a multiple tenancy feature for organisations that require isolating specific sensitive data and network links. 

"With cyber-attacks being a question not of 'if' but 'when', companies need to think about best practice data protection – without breaking the bank," said Todd Moore, VP of product management Encryption Products at Gemalto. "Our high speed encryption offering enables customers to protect their data in motion by attaching security directly to the data itself. We can protect sensitive data from surveillance and overt and covert interception at an affordable cost, ensuring it is effectively useless should it fall into unauthorised hands (and) at the same time helping customers reducing their encryption footprint."

Gemalto has partnered with Australia's Senetas and Swiss company ID Quantique to develop, deliver and support the CN8000. "The new SafeNet high-density CN8000 HSE solution uses quantum mechanics to help ensure secure communications, providing encryption keys based on the inherent and provable randomness of quantum processes to ensure extra protection for the data in motion," said Gregoire Ribordy, CEO at ID Quantique.

"The CN8000 enhances the broad range of solutions we are jointly able to offer customers to protect their most sensitive assets and stakeholders no matter where they reside, and no matter where their data is transmitted," said Andrew Wilson, CEO of Senetas. 

"With data networks constantly evolving and rapidly growing, customers require best-of-breed data security and maximum network performance at the same time. Our ability to encrypt at wire speeds without adding network overheads and deliver customers their near-zero latency network performance requirements differentiated the CN encryptors. Now the CN8000 provides important multi-link and multi-tenancy capabilities while meeting the most demanding private and public cloud architecture requirements."

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