Encryption & Multi-Cloud KMS
Welcome to the Akeyless Encryption and Multi Cloud KMS product video. In this short module, you’ll learn about the challenges enterprises face when managing encryption and keys across clouds, the Akeyless capabilities that solve those challenges, and the key use cases that show where our platform delivers the most value. We’ll also cover what makes Akeyless unique, from zero knowledge encryption to unified, cloud agnostic KMS, and close with a real customer success story highlighting our impact in action. Let’s get started. Why do enterprises implement key management, encryption, and tokenization? Enterprises deploy encryption and key management to protect data confidentiality, satisfy compliance mandates, and reduce security risk across distributed environments. They require a multilayer approach that combines encryption, tokenization, and key governance for full lifecycle protection. Akey List helps organizations meet compliance and regulatory requirements by automating key rotation and enforcing policy based access aligned with standards like SOC two, ISO, and NIST. With Akeyless, teams can manage cryptographic keys through their entire lifecycle, eliminating manual effort and configuration drift. The platform allows enterprises to easily automate database encryption through integration with transparent data encryption and API based encryption as a service. By removing manual key handling, Akeyless reduces operational overhead, strengthens compliance posture, and simplifies encryption management. Ultimately, it helps enterprises eliminate cost and complexity, while ensuring data remains secure and compliant across every environment. Akey List product capabilities that address the pains. Akeyless delivers a comprehensive key management solution that operates across clouds and on premises, validated under FIPS certification for cryptographic assurance. It provides lifecycle management of cryptographic keys all automated under centralized policy control. Through data encryption and encryption as a service APIs, enterprises can easily encrypt, decrypt, and sign data without ever exposing keys. Akeyless also supports transparent data encryption, TDE, and KMIP server compatibility for database and storage integrations. Tokenization with format preserving encryption, FPE, secures sensitive data like PII or payment details while preserving usability. A built in virtual HSM and external HSM integration provide hardware grade security without on prem complexity. Key generation, protection and rotation are fully automated, and code signing ensures software and firmware integrity. Finally, Akeyless’s patented zero knowledge DFC encryption guarantees that even Akeyless cannot access customer keys, ensuring unmatched cryptographic control and compliance grade trust. Akeyless supports major enterprise use cases for encryption and key management. First, multi cloud KMS BYOK enables centralized control of keys across AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS platforms, critical for avoiding cloud lock in. Next, application encryption and tokenization protects sensitive data such as PCI, PII, and PHI through API based encryption and format preserving encryption. For database and disk encryption, Akeyless manages TDE and KMIP keys for databases, storage and vSAN environments. Code and firmware signing enforces software integrity and supply chain trust, preventing tampering. Data residency and compliance requirements are met by regionalizing key domains to maintain sovereignty and regulatory adherence. Finally, crypto continuity and resilience ensures high availability and redundancy with automatic recovery, keeping encryption services operational under any condition. These use cases together deliver a complete, cloud agnostic encryption strategy that’s automated, compliant, and scalable. Why we do it better. Akeyless delivers zero knowledge encryption, ensuring no one, not even Akeyless, can access customer keys. Its patented distributed fragments cryptography, DFC, splits encryption keys across multiple secure fragments, preventing any single point of compromise. The platform provides a unified SaaS solution that combines keys, secrets, and certificates in one control plane, reducing silos and operational overhead. It functions as a cloud agnostic KMS, covering AWS, Azure, GCP, and on prem, enabling consistent governance everywhere. Automated key life cycle and policy driven governance, streamline compliance, and minimize manual tasks. With quantum resilient cryptography, Aehelis ensures data protection for the post quantum era. High availability and multi region caching guarantee, elastic scalability, and enterprise grade performance. Finally, its FIPS validated, compliance ready architecture meets SOC two, ISO, PCI DSS, and HIPAA, proving it’s built for the most demanding security environments. Let’s look at a real world example. Progress, a global software company operating across AWS, Azure, and GCP, faced growing complexity as it expanded through acquisitions. Each team managed keys and secrets differently, leading to fragmented key management, operational overhead, and rising security risks. Their existing vault based and open source tools added maintenance burden without solving the core issue, consistent encryption control across multi cloud environments. Akeyless provided a unified, zero knowledge SaaS platform that centralized key, secret, and certificate management across all clouds. By consolidating multiple KMS and Vault solutions into one control plane, Progress eliminated silos, simplified operations, and strengthened security posture. With Akeyless, progress achieved sixty to seventy percent reduction in management overhead, faster DevOps integration, and full ownership of encryption keys through patented distributed fragments cryptography. The SaaS first approach delivered instant scalability, high availability, and compliance grade protection without the infrastructure burden. Today, Progress runs a secure, multi cloud environment where teams can innovate faster while maintaining consistent, automated encryption policies across clouds and products, a transformation from fragmented complexity to unified scalable security. Thank you for watching this video.
Managing encryption and keys across multiple clouds is complex, costly, and risky. In this session, explore how Akeyless Multi-Cloud KMS centralizes key management across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem environments, while delivering Zero-Knowledge security, automated key lifecycle management, and built-in compliance.
Learn how enterprises protect sensitive data with Encryption-as-a-Service, tokenization, KMIP support, code signing, and quantum-resilient cryptography, all from a unified SaaS platform.