Fortanix’s Patrick Conte: Agencies Should Take a Data-First Approach to Cybersecurity

Patrick Conte, vice president and general manager for the Americas at Fortanix, said government agencies that seek to protect their data from threat actors and cyber vulnerabilities should take a data-first approach to security by adopting a unified security platform that strengthens a zero trust model.

In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Conte wrote that technologies like Fortanix’s Data Security Manager work to safeguard data across its life cycle by leveraging confidential computing, which he said depends on encrypted memory to protect data.

He discussed how Data Security Manager and other unified platforms provide agencies with flexibility while replacing legacy data security tools.

“Because we use encrypted memory for holding keys, we can build a global key management solution for workloads across all IT environments. And we can add advanced kinds of encryption such as tokenization, which preserves the format of the data, and secrets management for development environments,” Conte stated.

The Fortanix executive also discussed how the company’s technology could enable agencies to start implementing quantum-safe keys for critical assets and ensure the security of artificial intelligence environments in order for them to carry out analytics on sensitive data.

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