Identity & Access
PK Protect: beyond identity and access management
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is foundational to enterprise security, but it doesn’t truly protect your critical data. Our data-centric security stays with the data itself to close the gaps.
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Protect what IAM can’t
IAM and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solutions reduce risk by verifying users and applications, grouping them appropriately, and controlling access to sensitive information. While these measures are critical, they fall short of meeting modern data protection standards on their own.
PK Protect delivers security that integrates with and elevates your existing IAM & MFA tools. It encrypts data at rest and in motion and automatically de-identifies PII and PHI in structured and unstructured data sets.
Stop relying on “check the box” security and gain the confidence of end-to-end data security.
Why PK Protect
Don’t settle for a deadbolt, when you can have a bank vault
Strong user-friendly encryption
We bring decades of encryption expertise to provide seamless data protection. Our platform enhances security for complex enterprise environments. It integrates into existing workflows and preserves productivity.
Security when IAM fails
IAM tools often miss compromised credentials which allow attackers to masquerade as legitimate users. PK Protect encrypts at the folder and file level and can alert or block unusual data access or movement. Sensitive data stays secure, even when credentials don’t.
Compliance and reduced risk
IAM alone doesn’t satisfy most global compliance standards for data protection. PK Protect fills gaps and delivers data-level protection that exceeds your requirements now and in the future. Powered by AI-driven automation, it reduces risk, strengthens compliance, and simplifies security.
Data-centric security to prevent exposure
PK Protect is a critical defense in our data protection strategy. By proactively redacting or encrypting legacy data in alignment with our retention policies, we ensure that even if a breach occurs, the information remains inaccessible and unusable to bad actors. It’s not only about compliance, but also about preventing exposure before it happens.
What you get
End-to-end data security
Granular discovery
Before you can enforce access controls, you need full visibility into your data. Our data discovery pinpoints where sensitive and propriety information lives across your enterprise, giving you the clarity you need to take informed action to secure data.
Classify and control your data
Once sensitive data is identified, classification enables you to categorize and control it effectively. PK Protect enforces policies based on data content. This eliminates reliance on user decisions and avoids large, manual security projects.
With data properly classified, PK Protect can automatically route it to appropriate storage locations and deliver intelligence to IAM tools, enabling accurate enforcement of access and hierarchal controls.
Encryption is the securest form of IAM
While PKWARE offers multiple ways to enable safe data use, encryption works together with access management to protect sensitive information. Encryption prevents unauthorized access, accidental data loss, and overly permissive sharing. It stays with the data even after it leaves the organization.
Questions
PK Protect FAQs
PK Protect is an enterprise data security platform that delivers continuous, automated security for sensitive data. It does so wherever data lives or moves, across endpoints, cloud, mainframe, and legacy systems. Unlike fragmented, patchwork solutions, PK Protect unifies discovery, classification, and protection in a single platform. This reduces operational complexity and risk.
Access control solutions focus on who can access data. It relies on permissions and authentication to block unauthorized users. While important, this approach has limits. Blocking access to folders only works while data is at rest. It fails once you move, copy, or share files, whether accidentally or maliciously.
PK Protect takes a smarter, data-centric approach. Instead of relying solely on access controls, PK Protect applies persistent encryption and masking to the data. With this method, data remains secure and unusable to unauthorized parties. That’s true, even if there are compromised credentials or files that leave secure environments.
Businesses in every industry —from financial services to healthcare to retail—trust PK Protect to streamline data security. The platform benefits organizations facing strict regulatory requirements, where robust compliance and risk management are essential. PK Protect excels in complex environments with distributed data silos, multiple geographies, legacy systems, and stringent compliance requirements.
Enterprise data is sprawling, diverse, and subject to evolving regulations. PK Protect simplifies compliance by enforcing policies at scale. It automates discovery and protection, provides centralized reporting for audits, and helps organizations avoid costly fines and ensure they can always identify and secure sensitive data.
By replacing fragmented systems with a unified, automated data security platform, PK Protect streamlines security operations. One solution reduces manual effort and improves team productivity. IT departments can do more with less, while maintaining consistent protection and compliance across all environments.