Navajo Systems Session at Cloud Expo

Navajo Systems announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with IBM to support the commercial launch of Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud. Navajo Systems' unique technology addresses the data security and regulatory concerns of using the cloud.

Many enterprises have been reluctant to move to cloud computing due to regulatory restrictions which prohibit them from using the cloud for storing sensitive data, or due to concerns about the privacy and security of data in the cloud.

Navajo Systems' Virtual Private SaaS (VPS) is a revolutionary concept in SaaS application data security which comprehensively addresses these limitations and concerns of using cloud applications with sensitive corporate data. Implemented as an appliance on the enterprise LAN/WAN or as a cloud service, VPS transparently encrypts all SaaS application data deemed sensitive by the enterprise before it is transmitted from the enterprise to the SaaS provider. While end users remain completely unaware of this process, their data is completely unreadable when stored on the SaaS provider's servers. Database theft and identity theft becomes harmless, and regulatory compliance is ensured, as all sensitive data remains undecipherable when in transmission and at rest outside the enterprise firewall.

Developers of cloud applications do not need to implement any special code in their applications for VPS to provide them with this level of security and regulatory compliance. In fact, the same codebase could support cloud software implementations used with or without VPS.