Ionburst

Cloud context

Data security is central to nearly everything that we do, especially for entities trusted to protect, manage and securely share sensitive and regulated data across Cloud.

As data now lives everywhere, across multiple Clouds, on-premises and at the Edge, it is more important than ever before that entities manage their hybrid-Cloud data centrally.

A key challenge to entities in achieving this is the paradigm shift from on-premises, relatively closed, “perimeter” data security that the open, multi-jurisdiction, multi-party Cloud paradigm brings.

For example, the World Economic Forum reports today’s solutions morphed from the on-premises paradigm don’t scale or work effectively, because of Cloud complexity. Palo Alto further reports that entities trying to plug the resulting Cloud data security gap with more solutions, at more cost, are having limited impact on data breaches.

Broader research reports our data is being compromised relentlessly by adversaries; Thales reports much isn’t even encrypted, so it’s virtually impossible to protect it from harm; and we lack effective skills and solutions, despite larger cybersecurity budgets.

The regulatory context

As Cloud developed, the European Union led regulatory change to protect citizens with appropriate data privacy and sovereignty regulations.

These regulatory changes challenge multi-Cloud infrastructure, especially when dominated by Cloud providers (hyperscalers) that must comply with non-aligned national regulations.

The concept of sovereignty has also been “redefined” by US Cloud providers setting up “sovereign” Cloud regions across Europe, akin to their existing regional centres.

Such moves may allay concerns, but highlight critical challenges poorly understood by industry and regulators. For example can any European entity relying on such providers verify:

•       Where data is stored and how many copies?

•       Consistent compliance across regulators?

•       Visibility of data and exactly how it’s protected?

•       Data is hardened against ransomware or Cloud provider outage?

Problem

Entities lack solutions to deliver a unified interface for central management of data stored and shared across multi-Clouds.

They lack unified solutions to address their regulatory requirements, including data sovereignty, which can help reduce compliance costs.

Regulators demand better operational resilience, lower concentration risk and data sovereignty. Governance initiatives demand better ESG delivery and lower data overheads.

Entities need a solution that gives them control to choose their Cloud providers and manage their sovereign-hybrid Cloud data with complete visibility and verifiability.

They should be self-reliant, not dependent on any Cloud provider, foreign or domestic.

This is where Ionburst comes in.

Ionburst

We set out in 2022 with a simple objective:

“Build a hybrid-Cloud data security and compliance solution that’s child’s play to use.”

The result is Ionburst; a patented hybrid-Cloud solution helping entities to protect and share data across their multi-Cloud infrastructure via a unified control interface, without being tied to any Cloud provider.

Ionburst actively bridges the security gap between data on-premises and the Cloud by providing strong security guardrails and integrated data management. That’s why IBM recognises Ionburst as a top 40 fintech globally.

Ionburst overcomes weaknesses in existing solutions via its patented “data out” protection.

By embedding, security, recovery resilience and sovereignty measures into every data object, Ionburst empowers data to become an agent in its own defence and repair, able to withstand advanced adversary attacks and to recover from ransomware, irrespective of where it travels or is stored, without ever duplicating data.

Entities realise the power of Ionburst’s science via an easy to use management interface designed to help them overcome key data risk and compliance challenges across their hybrid-Cloud infrastructure.

Entities align their business data compliance and security policies by combining Ionburst automated:

1.     Encryption policies for validatable security;

2.     Fragmentation policies for assured obfuscation and privacy;

3.     Storage locations and regions for assured sovereignty and recovery.

Ionburst’s innovation in symmetric key distribution applied to every data object further assures quantum-safe data in transit and at rest.

These innovations are containerised into powerful microservices that:

1.     Can be deployed across any trusted platform from on premises to Cloud

2.     Scale on demand;

3.     Are optimised to operate at near wire speed;

4.     Can be configured for multi-Cloud active failover.