comforte AG Cloud Security Solution
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comforte AG Cloud Security Solution
Additional Info
| Company | comforte AG |
| Website | https://www.comforte.com/ |
| Company size (employees) | 100 to 499 |
| Headquarters Region | Europe |
Overview
As a leading data security software company, comforte offers innovative technology with simple, robust solutions for data discovery and protection. The comforte Data Security Platform provides data discovery, classification and protection capabilities to help achieve compliance with data protection and privacy regulations, reduce the impact of data breaches, and enable secure usage of data for your business applications and analytics. With over 25 years of experience in IT, comforte protects 60% of all credit card transactions in the world, along with data for over 500 strategic customers using cutting-edge data protection strategies such as tokenization. Large enterprises with sensitive data such as PII and PCI in key industries including financial services, insurance, retail and others trust comforte’s solutions to secure their business growth, meet data privacy requirements and mitigate risk.
The comforte Data Security Platform is scalable and fault-tolerant, enabling robust protection of sensitive data with minimal effort and with little to no impact on existing applications. It helps organizations achieve end-to-end data protection, lower compliance costs, and a significantly reduced impact of and liability for data breaches. Gartner Research has even highlighted comforte AG as a vendor that offers different data-centric protection methods (tokenization, format-preserving encryption, data masking) on one single platform.
Comforte AG was a pioneer in data-centric security methods such as tokenization. As a matter of fact, the industry-accepted tokenization standard—ANSI X9.119-2—is the first security standard for this method and is one which comforte AG helped to develop. Our data protection capabilities provide security layers ranging from fully protecting sensitive elements or files using various data protection methods to auditing user access of a specific database record. Comforte offers a variety of data protection methods, including industry standard-based data tokenization, encryption, next-generation format-preserving encryption, data masking, and hashing.
Key Capabilities / Features
There are a number of key capabilities and features that make comforte AG’s Data Security Platform deserving of this award.
End-to-End data protection: Ensures comprehensive safeguarding of sensitive data (such as PII, PCI or PHI) throughout its lifecycle, whether at rest, in motion, or in use. Focuses on protecting the data itself rather than the systems of devices holding it.
Data discovery and classification: Enables accurate identification of both known and unknown structured sensitive data elements, regardless of their status (at-rest or in-motion), with impressive out-of-the-box accuracy and even higher precision upon tuning.
Deploy anywhere: Offers seamless integration of protection nodes with applications and data stores, facilitating up to 10x faster deployment compared to traditional solutions. Compatible with on-premises, cloud, or hybrid IT environments.
Multiple protection methods: provides a diverse array of data protection techniques including masking, hashing, tokenization, and encryption tailored to specific needs and use cases, enabling pseudonymization, or full anonymization of data. It also supports Bring Your Own Encryption (BYOE) strategies for multi cloud environments with optimal control and compliance.
Flexible integration options: facilitates seamless connection of data flows, business applications, and data stores through smart interceptors or powerful APIs supporting multiple languages and scripts.
Configurable security policies: Offers flexibility in defining security policies in balance data security with utility effectively.
Adaptable to change: features a flexible, elastic and seaf-healing architecture that easily scales and adapts to changes and new requirements.
Access control and audit: integrates with IAM infrastructure for centralized management and consistent enforcement of security policies, with built-in audit and analysis capabilities for informed decision-making.
Support for modern CI/CD DevOps approaches: built to align with modern CI/CD DevOps methodologies, incorporating “Security as code” practices into the software development lifecycles.
How we are different
800+ customers around the globe, across many industries (including 50 in the Fortune 100 such as Visa, MasterCard, Shell and Macy’s to name just a few) leverage comforte’s data protection platform to secure all kinds of structured sensitive information such as payment data, healthcare records PHI, personally identifiable information (PII), and other sensitive data elements.
More than 700 million credit card numbers stored in databases are kept safe - meaning about 1 out of every 10 credit cards globally are protected with comforte AG.
Tailored strategy to pinpoint risk areas and select the right protection solution for your setup. Special focus on ensuring data privacy compliance aligns with your organization's data objectives and operations.
