Encryption is mostly used with communication of data, as seen with securing remote access VPN tunnels with IPSec, or internet data with SSL. It is rarely, if ever used to protect stored data. None of the market leaders SSL, IPSec or MACSec bother with encrypting data at rest. Why is this a problem?
Over 90% of the Hacker attacks happen on stored data. The reason for this is, when a user needs to open and view stored data, he/she cannot wait for the decryption process that is slow and time consuming, thus delaying realtime access to data. There is off course still also a need to protect data in motion better and more efficiently that current methods like SSL, IPSec and MACSec are doing.
Pantherun’s patent pending parallel processing algorithm takes data streams and encrypts/decripts them rapidly in small pieces to provide a truly real-time encryption implementation be it mission critical or an user experience application.
The graphic above demonstrates the significant performances benefit provided by Pantherun’s approach.
