IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services

IBM Cloud® Hyper Protect Crypto Services is an as-a-service (aaS) key management and encryption solution, which gives you full control over your encryption keys for data protection.

The integrated Unified Key Orchestrator acts as a secure key repository for distributing and orchestrating keys across multiple clouds, enabling quick recovery from key loss or disasters. With Hyper Protect Crypto Services, you can:

build on the highest level of security with FIPS 140-2 level 4 certified hardware;
experience a worry-free approach to multicloud key management through the all-in-one as-a-service solution and benefit from automatic key backups and built-in high availability secure business continuity and disaster recovery;
manage your keys seamlessly across multiple cloud environments and create keys securely and bring your own key seamlessly to hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure AWS and Google Cloud Platform to enhance the data security posture and gain key control; and
protect data by pervasively encrypting data at rest and in transit with Keep Your Own Key (KYOK), having full control and authority over encryption keys and sole access to your master key.

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Benefits

Enhance your data security posture and handle keys with ease.

Control keys exclusively with technical assurance

Encrypt integrated IBM Cloud Services and applications with KYOK. Retain complete control of your data encryption keys with technical assurance and provide runtime isolation with confidential computing.

Integrate IBM Cloud services with Hyper Protect Crypto Services

Manage keys effortlessly across clouds

Enhance security and manage keys with Unified Key Orchestrator across IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform, maximizing efficiency with its award-winning user experience.

Protect sensitive data while keeping control over your keys

Support quantum-safe cryptography

Protect your sensitive data with quantum-safe measures by using Hyper Protect Crypto Services' Dillithium for quantum-safe signing. Use a key management system to ensure crypto agility and future-proof your security against quantum threats.

Quantum-Safe Cryptography to protect data in the hybrid era

High security encryption and asset protection

Use the FIPS 140-2 Level 4 hardware security module to leverage the highest security level in the industry to store and transfer high-value digital assets in highly secure wallets reliable at scale.

Cloud HSM introduction

Meet compliance requirements

Adhere to various global guidelines and regulations, including those from NIST, GDPR, C5, ACSC/ASC, ECUC, ENISA, DPDPA, DORA and more. By maintaining control over your keys, you can achieve complete data privacy and sovereignty, enhancing data protection and control.

Security and compliance

Features

Worry-free multicloud key management

Create keys securely and seamlessly in a multicloud environment, including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Manage your keys under your exclusive control with a generic key lifecycle model based on NIST recommendations.

Monitor the lifecycle of encryption keys in Unified Key Orchestrator

HSM APIs and adapters

Use the API to interact with the key management service (KMS) to manage root keys and standard keys. The service is built on FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certified hardware and PKCS #11 is supported. Single-tenant dedicated HSM domains are fully controlled by you, and IBM Cloud administrators have no access—the highest security offered by any cloud provider in the industry.

Encrypt your data with cloud HSM

Additional features

IBM Cloud service encryption and key lifecycle management

Encrypt IBM Cloud services with keys under your control through KYOK integration for consistent adoption. Use a user-friendly GUI and Cloud APIs to track key lifecycles, ensuring unrecoverable deletion of data regardless of the source application.

Monitor the lifecycle of encryption keys

Service initialization through key ceremony

Take ownership of HSM. IBM is the first to provide cloud command-line interface (smart cards) for the HSM key ceremony to operate your HSM fully remotely. Key ceremony and smart cards management software is made available in the offering (with no extra charge).

Initialize your service instance

Built-in high availability and disaster recovery

Use a built-in central backup to redistribute and rotate keys to quickly recover from loss and minimize security threats. High availability and disaster recovery are available in the offering.

High availability and disaster recovery

Use cases

Discover business scenarios of Hyper Protect Crypto Services.

Encrypt Data with KYOK

Multi Cloud Key Management

Encrypt Kubernetes Secrets

HSM for HashicorpVault

VMware Encryption

Encrypt data at rest and in transit with KYOK

Encrypt storage devices with KYOK

The data in IBM Cloud services is encrypted with randomly generated keys. To enhance protection, you can control the encryption keys and use your own keys to encrypt your data. Also, you can use root keys in Hyper Protect Crypto Services to your cloud service of choice and leverage envelope encryption to add another layer of protection, KYOK, to your data, no one else including IBM Cloud administrators can access your data.

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Case studies

Revolutionizing data assurance in a cyber-contested world

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Modernizing security: A risk-based approach

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Confection's adoption of IBM Hyper Protect Crypto Services

Explore why Confection opts for IBM Hyper Protect Crypto, securing sensitive data with advanced encryption solutions for enhanced protection and compliance in their operations.

IBM Cloud Advances with Bank of America and BNP Paribas

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DIA secures decentralized financial information with IBM Cloud

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LevelField Financial chooses Metaco for Digital Asset Management on IBM Cloud

Discover how LevelField Financial partners with Metaco to launch digital asset management capabilities on IBM Cloud, leveraging secure and scalable solutions to enhance their financial services offerings.

Resources

IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services docs

Discover procedures, API and CLI references as well as video resources that assist you to securely manage your keys using Hyper Protect Crypto Services.

Explore an overview of IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services for VMware.

Learn how to securely manage AWS S3 encryption keys by using Hyper Protect Crypto Services with Unified Key Orchestrator.