The Data Localization Suite features a Geo Key Manager tool that allows customers to define specific locations to store private keys. Nevertheless, many businesses struggle to control where their private secure sockets layer (SSL) key material is stored. Given how encryption is unreadable and unusable until it is decrypted, protection of cryptographic keys is important. This is a fragile approach, fraught with performance, reliability, and security challenges.” Cloudflare Data Localization Suite

“Until now, businesses that wanted to localize their data had to choose to restrict their application to one data center or to one cloud provider‘s region. “The preference or requirement for data localization is growing across jurisdictions such as the, India, and Brazil over time, we expect more customers in more places will be expected to keep data local,” said Jon Levine, product manager at Cloudflare. While progress has been made in policy and protection, it has simultaneously created a new breed of security concerns as companies struggle to set data controls at the regional level and navigate regulations in nearly 150 countries.Ĭloudflare contends that the Data Localization Suite will help businesses better comply with local laws and regulations globally, providing customers with the tools to set where data is encrypted, decrypted, and inspected, as well as in which geography the private keystore is held. Seventy-six percent of countries across the globe have implemented or are planning to implement complex and, to some extent, confusing data residency laws to address data access, protection, and privacy, and ensure that national and residential data is stored inside the country, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Through Cloudflare’s global cloud network, the new set of tools give enterprise customers the helicopter-parent control they need to manage where data goes and ensure it stays where it should. Cloudflare delivered an early holiday gift to customers with the launch of its namesake Data Localization Suite.

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