Data Encryption
Modern data encryption software: compliance and proactive data protection
A seamless, enterprise-grade data encryption solution to protect sensitive data at rest and in transit.
Trusted by leading organizations for over 40 years
Encrypt data without complexity or disruption
Traditional encryption hinders productivity and breaks workflows. PK Protect Endpoint Manager (PEM) offers modern, certificate free encryption that automatically secures data while giving applications and authorized users seamless access. With policy-based protection across endpoints, servers, file shares, and applications, you can ensure compliance without sacrificing usability.
Why PK Protect
Simplify encryption for frictionless compliance
Persistent encryption, at rest and in transit
Regulations like GLBA, PCI DSS, and HIPAA require encryption of data across storage, transmission, and external environments. PK Protect supports this with persistent encryption that stays with your data. It even provides application-level encryption that lets applications securely access encrypted files.
Encryption that doesn’t slow down business
Eliminate certificate reliance to secure data without impacting productivity and reduce overhead and costs. One of the largest U.S. banks uses our data encryption solution to process 20–30 million encryptions monthly. 150,000 users regularly interact with encrypted files with zero friction.
Centralized protection without user dependence
Enforce encryption policies across the enterprise with minimal effort and without relying on user behavior. Start encrypting data within days, not months. Quickly reduce risk and avoid fines for non-compliance.
Compliance at scale
FISERV, one of the world’s largest financial services companies, relies on our data encryption solution to deliver consistent, automated at-rest and in-transit encryption across internal applications, 50,000 desktops, and 1,200 servers. They encrypt over 1 million files daily. This supports audit readiness and compliance and prevents exposure of sensitive data, all without disrupting workflows.
PKWARE is the backbone of our data protection strategy. With agents across all endpoints, we seamlessly encrypt and decrypt files while managing petabytes of data. For over 5 years, PKWARE has helped us meet audit requirements with confidence and trust.
What you get
Streamlined compliance and proactive protection
Features designed to remove manual overhead while ensuring audit-readiness.
Smartkeys
Maintain strong data protection, without disrupting user experience. A Smartkey combines encryption keys with a corresponding access control list to allow authorized users easy access to encrypted files. Smartkey technology reduces operational expenses. A separate key infrastructure and issuing and tracking certificates are no longer necessary.
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Audit logs for visibility and auditability
Leverage comprehensive audit logs that support internal governance and external audits with verifiable proof of compliance. Eliminate the need for manual evidence gathering and enable early detection of anomalies, such as failed decryption attempts or unusually high volumes of decryption activities.
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Contingency keys to prevent accidental data lockouts
Built-in contingency keys maintain encrypted data access even if original keys or passphrases are lost. This prevents accidental data lockouts and supports operational resilience.
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Crypto agility for evolving your security strategy
Locate encrypted files across your organization and stay ahead of the quantum curve. When new encryption standards are released, PKWARE will make it easy to achieve crypto agility with automated key rotation and seamless upgrades to the latest quantum-safe algorithms.
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Quantum resilience: future-proofing encryption against emerging threats
Data security and quantum computing are intersecting. Quantum computers threaten to break legacy encryption methods. Understand the risk, build quantum resilience, and prepare for the future.
Questions
Data Encryption FAQs
PEM delivers certificate-free, policy-based encryption without the complexity of traditional key management. With this approach, you’ll achieve fast, compliant data security. Unlike traditional encryption, which is disruptive and resource-heavy, our data encryption software simplifies protection by automatically securing files while keeping access seamless.
Disk Encryption solutions like BitLocker encrypt all data on the hard drive, while PK Protect provides data-centric, file-level encryption. Disk encryption only encrypts data at rest and there is no protection if the system is breached or as files are used or shared. In comparison, PK Protect Secures data at-rest and in-transit for persistent and comprehensive protection at rest and in transit and even if the hard drive is breached. This ensures compliance with regulations like GLBA, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and FISMA.
Yes. Our data encryption solution helps organizations meet encryption mandates for regulations such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA, and GDPR. It provides persistent protection and detailed audit logs that support audit readiness.
Organizations can start encrypting sensitive data within days, not months, thanks to our streamlined implementation and centralized policy management.
PKWARE has simplified the complex, resource-intensive process of transitioning to quantum-safe encryption. We can help organizations ensure they remain crypto-agile.
PKWARE’s data encryption solution supports all file types, by wrapping files in an encrypted ZIP archive.
Our data encryption solution includes contingency keys to prevent accidental data lockouts, ensuring business continuity even if original keys or passphrases are lost.
PK Protect encryption leverages our own PKZIP compression technology at its core, which means in most cases the encrypted file takes up less disk space than the original.