Today Druva announced that it was the first company to provide Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) enabled endpoint data protection in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) GovCloud. This will be ideal for government agencies and contractors that must adhere to the FIPS 140-2 encryption standard but that want to run their applications in the cloud.
The Cloud First policy mandates that “agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost.” FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) includes publicly announced security standards developed by the US federal government for computer systems used by non-military government agencies and government contractors. GovCloud is an isolated AWS (Amazon Web Services) region for government agencies, contractors and educational institutions to run sensitive workloads in the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. The FIPS 140-2 standard is published by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and outlines the requirements that federal agencies and departments must adhere to when using technology that uses encryption for transmission and storage of their data.
Government agencies and contracts are limited to the infrastructure they can use due to lack of FIPS support. This is especially an issue as they attempt to move to the cloud. Druva added FIPS support to its flagship inSync product, a endpoint data protection and governance solution. inSync with FIPS combined with AWS GovCloud gives these agencies compliance throughout there stack as they move to the cloud.
Benefits include:
Availability
Druva deploys on AWS GovCloud now and is expected to support FIPS within the next 90 days.
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