Interoute deploys ID Quantique's high performance encryption solution
High performance encryption solution for STERCI Cloud Services
Geneva, Switzerland, 9th October 2012 - ID Quantique SA (IDQ) with Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, deployed its high-performance encryption solutions for Sterci Cloud Services. Interoute and IDQ partnered to provide an enhanced transport encryption solution for Sterci’s GTSuite Cloud Services by adding IDQ’s Centauris encryptors between data centres in Geneva and Zurich. Sterci is the market-leading financial messaging solutions company.
Interoute provides hosting services to Sterci’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, GT Suite Cloud Services, within Swiss Data Centres. Sterci’s GTSuite is a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for messaging, reconciliation, business flows, integration and data management for the financial and banking industries. Since 2006 Sterci has provided this as a service offering to financial companies willing to outsource their messaging platform. The partnership between Sterci, Interoute and ID Quantique enables an enhanced transport encryption to match the demanding security requirements of Sterci’s financial customers, and SWIFT obligations. Sterci chose IDQ’s Centauris Ethernet encryptors, which in partnership with Interoute were deployed across a high-availability and geographically redundant solution between Geneva and Zurich.
According to Mr Simon Kalfon, CEO of Sterci, the ability to ensure high levels of data security underpins Sterci’s Software as a Service offering. “Sterci clients are able to benefit from the cost reductions and risk management offered by cloud services, while maintaining a high level of assurance regarding data confidentiality. This has also allowed us to achieve a higher level of compliance with SWIFTReady connectivity best practices, which is an indication of our ongoing search for excellence and which fits alongside our other key certifications FINMA, ISAE 3402, ISO 9001:2008.”
Mr Emad Ghanipour, Country Manager Switzerland for Interoute, confirmed that the ability to provide transport encryption is a vital element for the financial sector. “Interoute provides secure colocation and hosting solutions across Europe for our international customers, offering cloud and managed hosting in our ISO 27001, PCI DSS and ISAE 3402 Data Centres. Our partnership with ID Quantique and their transport encryption solution allows us the flexibility to provide this bespoke solution to Sterci and enhance their security further.’
Grégoire Ribordy, CEO of ID Quantique stated: “Working with Interoute to provide security solutions seamlessly to clients under a single SLA is a key part of IDQ’s strategy. Clients can benefit from our encryption solutions in ways which fit their business and operational models best and which make such necessary solutions as accessible as possible. IDQ encryption solutions offer simplicity, security and high-performance scalability.”
IDQ’s Centauris encryptors are based on the industry-standard 256-bit AES cipher (Advanced Encryption Standard), and are certified to the highest commercial standards - Common Criteria EAL4+ & FIPS PUB 140-2 level 3 accreditation. The products are transparent to the network, ensuring 100% of the available bandwidth without packet expansion or loss and with latency under 10 microseconds – all necessary for data center interconnection. Centralised network management tools, and features such as Link Loss Forwarding, ensure easy management & monitoring, as well as network availability. The easy installation and “set-and-forget” functioning minimises ongoing maintenance costs and reduces Total Cost of Ownership.
IDQ’s CypherManager software tool provides an efficient and simple method of provisioning and managing the encryptors in real-time, either locally or remotely through a secured SNMPv3 interface. Important security features, such separation of duties and integrated monitoring tools, align the technology with business risk and audit requirements. The secure remote management capability and fully automated group key management allows to scale seamlessly and easily from point-to-point to fully meshed multipoint networks. Furthermore IDQ encryptors are agnostic to network equipment from different vendors, allowing them to work on any third party networks.