Product Overview of PKWARE
PKWARE is a comprehensive enterprise data protection solution designed to locate, secure, and manage sensitive data across various environments, ensuring seamless, transparent, and robust data security.
What PKWARE Does
PKWARE’s flagship product, PK Protect, is an end-to-end data security platform that transforms an organization’s data security posture by accurately discovering and protecting sensitive data. This platform is tailored to minimize organizational risks and costs associated with data breaches and non-compliance.
Key Features and Functionality
Data Discovery
PK Protect’s data discovery capability is purpose-built to locate, identify, count, and report all sensitive data from various repositories, including endpoints, cloud storage, databases, mainframes, and data lakes. This ensures that all sensitive data is identified and managed, regardless of where it is stored or how it is used.
Data Classification
The platform categorizes data based on pre-defined policies to ensure security and privacy. This classification helps in applying the appropriate protection measures to different types of sensitive data.
Data Encryption
PK Protect automatically converts sensitive data into an unreadable format, which can only be decrypted with proper access. This ensures that data remains secured at rest, in use, or in motion.
Data Masking and Redaction
The platform offers data masking and redaction capabilities, which irreversibly protect static or dynamic data from being revealed and misused. Data redaction permanently removes sensitive information from text, images, and files.
Endpoint, Cloud, and Mainframe Protection
- PK Protect Endpoint Manager: Secures unstructured sensitive data on endpoints such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and servers, whether the data is at rest or in transit.
- PK Protect Data Store Manager: Manages and protects sensitive data stored in various data repositories.
- PK Protect for z/OS: Specifically designed to discover and protect sensitive data on mainframes using data definitions and copybooks for accurate discovery.
Encryption Key Management
PKWARE’s solution includes robust encryption key management capabilities, ensuring full control over encryption keys to comply with regulatory mandates and internal policies. Features include passphrases, OpenPGP, smart keys, and contingency keys to prevent data from becoming permanently inaccessible.
Additional Tools
- SecureZIP: Provides file-level security with flexible protection and compression capabilities, supporting X.509/OpenPGP.
- PKZIP: An efficient and flexible solution for data compression, reducing file sizes by up to 90%.
Comprehensive Security Posture
PKWARE’s data-centric approach ensures that sensitive data is protected from the inside out, regardless of the device or environment. This approach allows organizations to meet compliance requirements, proactively protect against breaches, and quickly respond to any breaches that may occur. The platform provides on-demand reporting and peace of mind that data is unusable in the event of a breach.
In summary, PKWARE’s PK Protect is a holistic data security solution that integrates data discovery, classification, encryption, masking, and redaction with robust key management, ensuring that an organization’s sensitive data is continuously protected and managed efficiently.