In today’s world, information has become one of the most valuable assets of any organization. It drives competitiveness, informs strategic decisions, and sustains business stability. To protect it, companies deploy numerous solutions—access controls, network monitoring, incident response tools, and endpoint security. Yet as data volumes grow, mobility increases, and cyberthreats evolve, traditional protection methods lose their effectiveness. What if the focus moved from securing the perimeter to securing the data directly? This is exactly the approach at the core of the Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform (CDSP).

Challenges of traditional security models

Modern IT infrastructures increasingly rely on cloud services for flexibility and scalability. But this shift brings new challenges:

• fragmented tools: organizations often use different encryption and key-management solutions from multiple vendors, making unified control difficult and increasing the risk of gaps.
• lack of centralized oversight: without a single security management layer, consistent and predictable protection becomes harder to maintain.
• perimeter-centric security: focusing only on the perimeter fails to protect data once it moves between environments or leaves organizational boundaries.
• regulatory pressure: compliance with GDPR, PCI DSS, NIST and other standards requires a clear view of where data resides, how it is classified, and how it is protected.

The Thales approach: data-centric security

To address these challenges, organizations need a solution that can not only locate and secure sensitive data, but also enforce unified security controls across all environments. CipherTrust Data Security Platform delivers exactly that—a comprehensive suite that discovers, classifies, protects, and controls data regardless of where it resides. This allows organizations to:

• understand where their critical data lives;
• assess risk levels and apply appropriate policies;
• manage encryption and keys from a single platform;
• control data access at the file, application, and OS levels.

To achieve this, CDSP includes several core components:

• CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification – identifies sensitive data, evaluates its protection level, and determines required safeguards.
• CipherTrust Transparent Encryption – encrypts files and directories transparently, enforcing fine-grained access controls and keeping data encrypted even when moved.
• CipherTrust Key Management – provides centralized encryption-key management for unified security oversight.
• CipherTrust Application Data Protection – encrypts database fields at the application layer to prevent unauthorized access.
• CipherTrust Tokenization – replaces sensitive data with tokens to reduce exposure risks.
• CipherTrust Database Protection – encrypts database columns with role-based access restrictions.

How CDSP transforms data protection

What sets CDSP apart is its data-centric model. Even if an attacker gains access to infrastructure, encryption, tokenization, and strong key management ensure the data remains protected.

The platform further strengthens security through:

• centralized policy management across all environments.
• integration with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud for consistent protection in multi-cloud setups.
• role-based access controls to mitigate insider risks.
• monitoring and auditing of all data-related operations for rapid incident response.

This provides organizations with meaningful advantages that elevate data protection to a new level.

Key benefits of CipherTrust Data Security Platform

1. Universal coverage: consistent security across on-premises and cloud environments.
2. Automation: reduces manual work through automated data discovery, classification, and protection.
3. Easy integration: APIs allow developers to embed encryption and key usage into applications that lack native support or rely on custom logic.
4. Accelerated compliance: helps organizations meet stringent security and privacy standards.

In a world where data is one of the most valuable assets, protecting it must be a top priority. Traditional perimeter-focused methods no longer provide sufficient assurance. CipherTrust Data Security Platform changes the equation, giving organizations the tools to maintain full control over their data—no matter where it resides or how it is used. This not only reduces the risk of exposure, but also strengthens compliance, improves operational security, and supports confident progress toward digital transformation.