Digital.ai Becomes First App Hardening Vendor to Receive FIPS140-3 Validation for Key and Data Protection

We’re excited to share that the Digital.ai Key and Data Protection cryptographic module has successfully secured the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3 (FIPS 140-3) validation. Everything – from e-mail to spreadsheets to text messages – is encrypted when in transit or storage. Encryption is thus essential to modern computing, NIST provides a universal standard for encryption, and FIPS 140-3 is the highest and most modern accreditation available for NIST.

Why This Matters

Enterprises continue to make more and more mobile applications for their customers. Because mobile applications depend on secure communication with back-office servers to be useful, and because mobile applications “live” in the hands of the public, mobile applications present a unique security challenge to enterprise application owners: How to ensure that the private keys that ensure secure, confidential communications, remain private? Especially when the keys are essentially “visible” to threat actors? Enter “white box” cryptography, a mechanism by which even keys that are visible to threat actors are extremely difficult – if not impossible – to decrypt…Digital.ai Key & Data Protection Whitebox Cryptographic Library instances provide this mechanism.

What is Significant About Getting Certification?

As the demand for secure data protection solutions is increasing amidst growing cyber threats, which are enumerated in our 2024 Application Threat Report, achieving FIPS 140-3 certification is more significant than ever. With new and evolving security challenges, having our Key and Data Protection certified to the latest FIPS standard makes us ready to meet our customers’ current and future needs.

Compliance to FIPS 140-3 enables the following key benefits to our customers:

Regulatory Compliance

Many industries and government agencies require FIPS 140 validation for cryptographic modules to comply with regulations such as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), Veteran Affairs’ Directive 6500 and Cybersecurity Rules for Contractors, HIPAA regulations and others. Beyond governmental bodies, many institutions, and industries where risk is high and money is at stake, like Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Cloud Service Providers, Payment Card Industry (PCI) rely on FIPS140-3. Organizations that use vetted cryptographic solutions can meet such compliance requirements more rapidly.

Enhanced Security

Digital.ai Key & Data Protection FIPS140-3 cryptographic module ensures that the internals of its cryptographic operations have undergone rigorous testing and that they meet stringent security standards. Customers using Key & Data Protection receive an elevated level of assurance that the module can effectively protect sensitive data.

Data Integrity and Confidentiality

Digital.ai Key & Data Protection ensures that data remains secure both at rest and in transit. This means unauthorized entities cannot access or alter the data, maintaining its integrity and confidentiality.

Trust and Credibility

Organizations that use FIPS 140 validated solutions, like Digital.ai Key & Data Protection FIPS140-3 cryptographic module, demonstrate their commitment to high security standards, enhancing their credibility and trustworthiness with customers and partners.

Interoperability

Digital.ai Key & Data Protection cryptography instances are designed to work seamlessly with other FIPS140-3 validated systems and components, ensuring smooth integration and interoperability within a secure infrastructure.

The Bottom Line

Digital.ai Key and Data Protection has undergone a development audit, and a rigorous series of tests meant to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities, conducted by Penumbra Security, an independent NIST-accredited laboratory. Penumbra Security is a subsidiary of SGS, a Swiss-based leader in digital trust services for cybersecurity testing and inspection. The National Institute for Standards and Technologies (NIST) Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) has publicly recorded this as Validation Certificate #4910.