Fortanix Partners With F5 to Deliver Cloud-Scale HSM and Advanced Encryption Key Management for BIG-IP and NGINX Customers

Mutual Customers Have New Secure, Scalable, High-Performance Key Management Solutions Available for SSL and TLS Encryption

Fortanix Inc., the Runtime Encryption company, announced it has partnered with F5 to deliver cloud-scale hardware security module (HSM) and advanced key management service (KMS) capabilities for BIG-IP and NGINX customers. With the company’s growing portfolio of FIPS-compliant offerings, F5 customers can now leverage the Fortanix Self-Defending Key Management Service for FIPS 140-2 level 3 security to protect encryption keys, securely migrate to the cloud, and scale to meet their cloud-scale performance requirements.

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“Key Management Services and Hardware Security Modules are critical components of managing, securing, and scaling TLS encryption,” said Frank Strobel, Director, Cybersecurity Alliances at F5. “A KMS/HSM solution needs to be cloud-agnostic, secure, scalable, and available to handle crypto operations offloaded from web applications deployed on a variety of platforms across the globe.”

The Fortanix solutions for BIG-IP and NGINX each deliver a cloud-scale data security platform that provides cryptographic services, shared secrets, and tokenization across cloud and on-premises environments from a single centralized point of management, control and audit. With this partnership, F5 customers benefit from a single integrated HSM and KMS platform across BIG-IP or NGINX deployment architectures to ensure that cryptographic operations are secure, provide optimal performance, and scale to execute cryptographic operations across on-premises, hybrid cloud and public cloud deployments.

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“We are pleased to highlight this partnership, and that Fortanix now offers Self-Defending KMS to secure the encryption keys of our customers across on-premises and cloud,” added Strobel. “With Fortanix, joint customers benefit from cloud-scale HSM and KMS solutions that meet advanced performance requirements, provide military grade protection, and support a variety of on-premises, cloud and multi-cloud environments.”

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“F5 is a leader in application services, and like so many companies today, they are addressing customer challenges around migrating encryption systems and keys from on-premises to hybrid, public and multi-cloud environments,” said Patrick Conte, Vice President of Business Development. “We are excited to partner with them to offer our scalable and high-performance data security solutions to support the evolving needs of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud BIG-IP and NGINX customers.”

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