AnyData. AnyApp. AnyWhere.

 

AnyData.

 

Regardless of what data you want to protect - personal data, medical data, financial data - with data-centric protection, your data is safe from unauthorized individuals. At the same time, the information remains available to users, thanks to stateless key management and your existing authorizations concept.

 

AnyApp.

 

We can protect data in any application without restricting processes or usability. The underlying data in the systems is encrypted in a format-preserving manner. Data is kept protected from all unauthorized use.

 

AnyWhere.

 

Whether you store and process your data on-premise or at a cloud service provider is irrelevant for data-centric protection. With format-preserving encryption, i.e., encryption and separate access management, you always remain in control of your data, even if you do not have physical access to the IT infrastructure.

9 Benefits of data-centric protection

The world of data is becoming more complex every day. Prewen accepted the challenge and offered a comprehensive solution with a revolutionary approach. While most IT security solutions start with the IT infrastructure, Prewen focuses on protecting the data. The concept strikes through simplicity: The information is encrypted so that it cannot be read by unauthorized access. They are utterly useless for data theft or in the event of a data leak. Combined with stateless key management, your data is safer than ever!

  • Nº1 · Format-preserving encryption

    Your data is fully protected. Nevertheless, your protected data retains its format and data structure within the application.

  • Nº2 · Stateless key-management

    Keys are generated just in time - eliminating the need for key storage and backup/restore.

  • Nº3 · Scaleability & Flexibility

    We are connecting new technologies and applications without decrypting the data.

  • Nº4 · Cloud migration

    You migrate your applications and data into the cloud while your data is secure at any time.

  • Nº5 · Hackers with no chance

    Professional hackers often commit data theft. We protect data from misuse.

  • Nº6 · Minimized risks

    The risk of high costs or reputational damage due to data loss is eliminated.

  • Nº7 · Comply with industry standards

    Be it for FINMA guidelines, PCI DSS, compliance with data protection laws, or DSGVO guidelines.

  • Nº8 · Analytics & Automation

    All data is available for automated processing, reporting, and ongoing data analysis.

  • Nº9 · Less complexity

    Data encrypted at the core reduces the complexity of your IT infrastructure while providing complete protection.

Data Security: Engage now!

 

It is fair to say that data-centric protection with format-preserving encryption is a paradigm shift in state-of-the-art data security. Although IT landscapes have changed significantly in recent years, many companies still rely on security mechanisms from the past and struggle to keep up with evolving requirements and greater complexity. In practice, an unstoppable trend is emerging: more and more companies rely on the data-centric approach - with success.

Cyber Risk Hotspots

  • Privacy

    The new Swiss Data Protection Law and the General Data Protection Regulation - the EU GDPR Directive adopted in 2018 - require adequate protection of data against unauthorized access. In short: data protection involves data security.

  • Cloud-Computing

    The ongoing trend of moving IT infrastructure and applications to the cloud reduces control over your data. Companies lose control over data centers, hardware, and access to the systems.

  • Multi-Cloud

    Today, companies mostly don't use just one cloud solution. With our approach, you can protect your data in multiple clouds with one single solution.

  • Health data

    Digitalization has also arrived in the health and life science industry. The sensitive handling of personal health data cannot be too secure.

  • Customer data

    Marketing automation, customer relationship management (CRM) and customer journeys, sales, and marketing rely on collecting and analyzing more and more customer and user data.

  • Cybercrime / Hacker

    Professional hackers cause a large percentage of data breaches. Either you get involved in the IT security arms race or protect your data once and for all with a data-centric security concept.

  • Business critical data

    Business-critical data and intellectual property essential for the respective company must not be stolen under any circumstances. Protecting this data is a matter of the utmost priority.

  • Storage media

    With digital transformation and cloud computing, many companies no longer know exactly where their sensitive data is. Especially in the case of unstructured data. The greater the knowledge gap, the greater the security risk.

  • Testing

    Software development requires good quality test data. Using production data is a high risk, as people can access the information they should not see. We provide quality test data without exposing your actual data.

  • BigData

    Exponentially growing data structures vast amounts of unstructured and structured data are constantly collected and analyzed—a challenge for data security. With us, your data in Hadoop, Teradata, and other BigData solutions are safe.

  • Human factor / IT administrators

    People are still a significant risk factor. This unpredictability must be kept under control with protected data and restrictive access using automated key management that controls authorization and authentication.

  • Digital products

    New products and innovations are saturated with digital and data-intensive processes that often change and expand—the perfect moment to implement security and privacy by design.

  • Financial service

    Payment with cash is on the decline; online and on-site people pay with credit or debit cards. Money, a security-sensitive topic with the highest industry standards like PCI DSS and financial regulation by FINMA (CH), BaFin (DE), etc.

«Really, I don't understand why everyone in the world hasn't gone to this form of encryption,» Carr said. «The data is of no value to the bad guys.»

Robert Carr CEO, Heartland Payment Systems

Answers to the most important questions.

 

  • The topic of cyber security is currently on everyone's mind. Almost every day there are reports of cyber attacks that gain criminal access in ever new and diverse ways. The data security solutions to protect against these attacks are just as varied. Prewen's data security approach focuses on format-preserving encryption with data-centric security. This prevents stolen data from being read or misused.

  • Data misuse is the misuse of illegally acquired data. The data may have been stolen either by hacker attacks or by internal or external personnel with access.

    Most often, data theft is not recognized. If money were stolen, the money is gone. However, in the case of data theft, the data is still there because data has simply been copied and can be misused without the original «owner» of the data noticing.

    Prewen offers a complete solution for the prevention of data misuse.

  • With the same solutions that protect data from misuse, compliance with data protection laws and other regulatory requirements regarding the protection of specific data can also be ensured through pseudonymization or anonymization. Examples are data protection laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU-DSGVO) or the Swiss Data Protection Law (CH-DSG). In some cases, laws from other countries also directly contradict local laws, such as the US CLOUD Act.

  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - the security standard in the financial industry. Companies with systems that contain credit card data are audited annually. These audits are time-consuming and very expensive for the companies. By tokenizing credit card data, systems that only work with the protected data are removed from the audit scope. This makes the audits leaner, significantly cheaper and the data more secure at the same time.

  • Anonymization:
    Anonymization changes data elements in such a way that these data are replaced by other values. The assignment to the original data can no longer be reversed.

    Pseudonymization:
    With pseudonymization, the data elements (surname, first name, illness, bank account, ...) are replaced by pseudonyms. If one has the appropriate authorization, the data can be restored in (plain text).

    For both measures, various methods exist for protecting the data, including encryption, hashing, tokenization, and so forth.

Ready for the ultimate Prewention? 

Prewen's data security experts will be happy to advise you on a data-centric security solution tailored to your application and needs. Finally, you have your data risks under control and can concentrate on the business because Prewen will ensure: Relax. Your data is safe.