Group Encryption Overview

Protecting data in motion has become a high priority for a growing number of commercial organizations and government agencies. The growing threat of data theft and the increased regulatory pressure to protect data has changed encryption of data in motion from a "nice to have" technology to a budgeted "need to have" project.

While many organizations have recognized the need for encryption, those that have deployed IPsec VPNs across their network have discovered that while encryption is a superior form of data protection, the deployment and management of IPsec VPNs is complicated, time consuming and largely incompatible with other network requirements. Application performance, intelligent traffic routing, network reliability and visibility all suffer as a result of IPsec tunnels. The IPsec VPN technology is also incompatible with a growing number of cost-effective Layer 2 service options, such as Metro Ethernet E-LAN, E-LINE, and VPLS forcing companies needing encryption to find another way to achieve such security.

Certes Networks addresses this need in the market with the introduction of TrustNet Manager™, a web-based management platform that simplifies security management while preserving network performance and functionality. This powerful suite of security management applications provides organizations the ability to secure networks, achieve regulatory compliance, and reduce the cost of deploying, managing and maintaining the encrypted network.

TrustNet’s group encryption allows security administrators to physically or logically group like endpoints together. Each group can then be treated as one node and share the same key material. This grouping capability greatly reduces the number of policies needed for a large-scale encryption deployment. For networks organized as a full mesh there is a significant reduction in the number of policies, which improves performance and reduces the chances of costly misconfigurations.

Examples of TrustNet encrypted groups include: The TrustNet group encryption solution has the added benefit of decoupling the security from the networks' routed or switched infrastructure, providing additional security through role and access segmentation. TrustNet also eases network troubleshooting, which is very difficult to do with other methods of transport encryption.

To discuss the benefits of group encryption or for pricing information, contact us at 1-888-833-1142 or feel free to ask us a question.

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FIPS 140-2 Validated Encryptors
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Group Encryption Whitepaper
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