Data Security in the Cloud Is Going To Get Worse - BLAKFX

A survey of cloud security professionals by Fugue has found that 36% of organizations suffered a serious cloud security leak or breach in the past 12 months – and 64% say the problem will get worse or remain unchanged in the year ahead.

The Fugue study entitled “The State of Cloud Security 2021” also found that 32% say the causes of cloud misconfigurations are too many APIs and interfaces to govern, while 31% say a lack of controls and oversight, 27% say policy awareness, and another 23% say negligence.

“This year’s survey reveals that the complexities and dynamism of at-scale cloud environments outpace the ability of teams to keep them secure,” said Josh Stella, co-founder and CEO at Fugue. “Engineering and security teams continue to ramp up the time and resources they invest in cloud security, but say they still lack the visibility and automation they need.”

It’s pretty clear that these numbers will likely increase over time given the strong cloud migration that is ongoing.

The cloud adds much more resiliency to organizations’ infrastructure, but the drawback is the loss of visibility and control. Even further, the number of apps downloaded from the cloud are proving to be substantial source of malware issues.

Data security obviously does not just exist on your own IT system. As we are all aware, our own data systems are hard enough to keep secure let alone those of your direct suppliers, 3rd party vendors and the Cloud. As the US Federal Government discovered, the SolarWinds failure is an obvious example of a direct supplier providing inferior products. Another recent and notable example is the Apple ransomware attack where Intellectual Property (IP) was stolen through the systems at one of Apple’s premier suppliers, Quanta Computers in Taiwan. Even without these more notable examples, your firm/nation might have the resources to keep up with software updates and patches, but your suppliers may not.

The continued growth of cloud computing will inevitably leave humungous gaps in your supply pipeline. On the cloud, your firm is quite simply at the mercy of the Cloud Service Providers (CSP) security system. Further, E2E encryption is limited in it’s capabilities and only protects data during transfer. If you are running AI experiments on the cloud, then none of the data is protected as E2E encryption does not protect data in use or at rest. E2E encryption will be obsolete in the quantum computing era.

Helix22 SDK was purpose built to protect data in the cloud and with 3rd party vendors.

Currently, the only way for organizations to retain full control when transitioning to the Cloud is through Anonymization of data or rendering enough sensitive data fields inaccessible when in the Cloud and only accessible again when coming back on-premise or back within their span of control. This is where the Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) concept becomes essential. Encrypting data prior to sending to it the Cloud and only decrypting once back on-premise is the only way to satisfy any more conservative trust models.

Cloud Service provider encryption solutions, however, cannot strike the required balance. Disk, file, tablespace or even Column level encryption solutions still mean the Cloud Provider controls the keys! This protects against an intruder walking out of the data center with a disk drive but not any normal access channels to the data. Cloud Services provided solutions including Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) designs, are not acceptable to organizations in any highly regulated industries or processing particularly sensitive data.

Another major problem is encrypting all the data. If data is 100% encrypted, then fields and columns cannot be accessed and are therefore are inadequate for use as a data set. It becomes impractical then from a business standpoint, to encrypt all data fields or offer access only on a “need-to-know” basis. The result is that most data is shared on the CSP without encryption at all. Your data is then 100% reliant on the CSP not being breached.

Enter BLAKFX. The Helix22 offers 100% data security on your firms data while it is at rest, in use or in transit. It also works on every CSP and on any device or in any programming language.

Here is how it works.

BLAKFX provides Device-2-Device (D2D) Encryption with multi-patented DNA Binding^TM cryptography that embeds with the data itself. The key exchange originates on an encrypted device (not in software or an app) and is augmented with a genuine “zero-knowledge” universal key server. The recipients device must have Helix22 installed in order to exfiltrate the data. Therefore, we offer perfect data security with 100% compliance, in your control, at all times. This of course is the optimal scenario. Your firm controls full control over access to your data sets at all time.

With Helix22, this means that data is protected on your infrastructure, on a CSP and is 100% compliant. Also, it means that no other service provider or 3rd party will be able to access data or have it breached. Compliance is controlled also 100% by your frim as all the keys are in your possession and/or generated by the BLAKFX key serer, which is 100% zero-knowledge.

What we understand better than anyone else is the new era of data security is one that requires new solutions. At BLAKFX, we understand that protection of your data requires that it be protected wherever it is. Whether on the cloud, in transit on a foreign network or on a trusted suppliers system. Data security cannot just be about protecting your own systems. Therefore, we know that the era of perimeter defenses is over as it is proving impossible to keep hackers from breaching the perimeter and accessing data. Also, E2E encryption based on old models of RSA cryptography will be obsolete when quantum computing becomes more widespread.

Helix22 is Quantum Immune – Start Your Integration on our Git

Helix22 delivers perfect security assurance due to our genius engineering team that has invented a new model for data security that required an innovative look at the problem. The approach we took was to protect the data itself. Almost all other data security products attempt to build a perimeter or being fanatic on user credentials. However, once the product is breached or a password is stolen, even if it is 2FA or encrypted, your firms data is in the clear.

You see, the Helix22 cryptography is embedded with the data itself through our inventive and multi-patented process of DNA Binding^TM. Therefore, even if credentials are stolen the data cannot be exfiltrated. This means that all data is 100% protected regardless of the type of attack.

Another substantial advantage of Helix22, is that it protects all data whether at rest, in use or in transit. All communication apps for example, only encrypt data while in transit. Therefore, that encryption become useless for internal IT security or Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning experimentation. All data generated during these massive computing exercises is equally protected in real time. Plus, the latency period for the Helix22 is exponentially less than any other security product, so it actually contributes to faster processing times.

The Helix22 is easy to install and runs on all platforms, programming languages, networks and devices.

Our Motto

“In Math We Trust”

In this protocol, we are truly a “zero-knowledge” server so your private communications and transmissions remain completely top secret. Even in the event that BLAKFX were subpoenaed, we can honor the request by just handing over the encrypted content…as that is literally all we have. Helix22 also only use keys just one-time and then destroys them. This way the data security is future forward prefect. Therefore, in our unique user-to-user encryption (U2U) world, there is no opportunity ever for any data leak.

The Helix22 data security SDK accomplishes the following:

Protects all your firms data at rest, in use and in transit
Renders ransomware threats obsolete
Eliminates human error
Eliminates all malicious or interior attacks
Verifies original content i.e. minimizes the threat of impersonation attacks and deep fakes
Reduces latency
Installs with 5 lines of code
Runs on any platform, network, device and in any programming language
Provides perfect future/forward secrecy
Delivers “zero-knowledge” encryption
Compatible with all cloud, 3rd party and vendor services
Ensures privacy and security for blockchain and all cryptocurrency transactions
Is quantum ready – so there’s no need to upgrade when the time comes
Requires no employee training
Exceeds all gov’t and banking security standards
Meets all international compliance regulations

D2D encryption

We can make this claim as the tech engineers at BLAKFX invented and patented a genuine device2device (D2D) encryption. We manage data security transmission through the truly brilliant and also patented universal Helix22 key service. The Helix22 encryption originates on your network or device, not just when the app is opened. This means, that when data arrives to our key server, it is already encrypted so all it needs to do is issue another key. Signal and Telegram cannot claim this level of security. This key will then only work with the intended device, which generates a matching key required to open the data. In this protocol, we are truly a “zero-knowledge” server so your communications and transmissions remain completely top secret. Even in the event that BLAKFX were subpoenaed, we can honor the request by just handing over the encrypted content…as that is literally all we have. Helix22 also only use keys just one-time and then destroys them. This way the data security is future forward prefect. Therefore, in our unique device-2-device (D2D) world, there is no opportunity at all for any data leak.

This same protocol just described, can be the same with all your 3rd party vendors and suppliers. It does not matter in the least what platform they are running or what device they are using or even the type of data, it is all 100% protected. We do however, strongly advise that all firms involved be utilizing Helix22 due to the nature of the data content. Helix22 can ensure that whatever data they are generating is protected as well.

Let’s take it a step further. Even if your organization were a victim of an internal attack or a victim of malicious open source downloads, there is no reason for concern. Any data that has been forwarded, downloaded, copied or saved cannot be exfiltrated. Period. We have the technology industries foremost data packets which are protected with multi-layered, military grade encryption algorithms that have already proven the ability to withstand penetration testing from MI5 and quantum computing attacks.

One final practical genius of DNA Binding^TM is in that it is immediately compatible with whichever system or software you are utilizing. Therefore, any organization can forward information to another and then discuss it and there is immediate privacy.

BLAKFX is Based on Success

Our founders, Robert Statica PhD and Kara Coppa, also founded Wickr, which is used by the US military and has never been hacked since its inception in 2012. The Helix22 data security SDK is several generations enhanced since then. Dr. Statica also delivered the encryption for the world’s most secure phone, Katim.

Founder – Robert Statica PhD Founder – Kara Coppa Founder – Alex Maslov MS, MBA

Co-Founders of Wickr Katim^TM Ultra Secure Smartphone

Finally, the Helix22 encryption is quantum computing ready so no need to redo all your data security methodologies in a couple of years when everything else becomes obsolete.

We like to refer to Helix22 as “22nd Century Data Security.”

Helix22 – Zero Risk