Thales has been selected as the Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year in the Security – Data Protection category. Thales was selected alongside a field of Google Cloud partners for excellence in developing and implementing client solutions based on Google Cloud’s tech.
The collaboration addresses the needs of organizations worldwide that are facing ever-increasing security, sovereignty, and performance requirements for their cloud deployments.
Why was Thales recognized by Google Cloud?
With many years of cybersecurity expertise, Thales provides the level of trust and security required for clients to move to the cloud, while maintaining the necessary level of control. By combining Thales’ expertise with Google Cloud’s enterprise-grade solutions and cutting-edge infrastructure, the two firms work closely on a number of broad data security initiatives.
Thales, in its constant search of excellence in its security portfolio, recently announced a new collaboration to develop data security capabilities and bring additional AI-powered features to users of its CipherTrust Data Security platform. This is powered by Google Cloud’s Vertex AI machine learning capabilities, to discover, classify and protect sensitive data in the cloud.
Additionally, the innovative machine learning functionality helps to automate fundamental tasks for global customers and ensure their sensitive cloud-hosted data remains protected. Since late last year, Thales’ CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager has also supported Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) initiatives, including those for Google Cloud and Google Workspace.
Commenting on Thales’ recognition, Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President, Global Ecosystem and Channels at Google Cloud, said, “Google Cloud’s partner awards recognize the significant impact and customer success that our partners have driven in the past year.”
“We’re delighted to recognize Thales as a 2023 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, and look forward to a continued strong partnership in support of our mutual customers,” he added.
What does the partnership mean for Thales?
Sebastien Cano, Senior Vice President of Cloud Protection and Licensing activities at Thales, commented: “We are proud of our ongoing relationship with Google Cloud and this latest award recognises the brilliant work we’ve been doing with them across a range of projects.”
“Together we are helping customers around the world discover, classify and protect their data more efficiently, and ensure their move to the cloud is as secure and compliant as possible.”
Thales and Google Cloud have also collaborated to operate a sovereign cloud joint venture (S3NS) for Google Cloud customers in France who seek to meet stringent data sovereignty requirements, such as those applicable to state and critical infrastructure organizations.
Thales has built a structured cloud offering for firms that want to meet the most demanding data protection standards. In France, S3NS aims to offer companies and public institutions a solution providing the equivalent of Google Cloud, compliant with the “SecNumCloud” label, a certification from the French information systems security agency (ANSSI).
To date, SecNumCloud has the highest level of protection across the country, excluding the protection of national defense secrets, and in Europe. The Thales and Google Cloud venture has a first offering already available that offers additional guarantees & controls, such as data location in Europe and external encryption managed by S3NS (based on Thales technology).
