Case Study: Leading Highly Regulated Global Energy Company achieves secure cloud migration and centralized BYOK key management with Thales CipherTrust Platform

Global Energy Leader Secures High Value Data in the Cloud with Thales CipherTrust Platform

Leading Highly Regulated Global Energy Company faced the challenge of protecting Tier 1 sensitive data while migrating hundreds of Microsoft Azure subscriptions and many key vaults to a multi-cloud environment, and wanted an on‑premises, vendor‑agnostic BYOK solution with no production downtime. They engaged Thales and deployed CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager (CCKM) together with CipherTrust Transparent Encryption and Live Data Transformation to centrally manage keys and encrypt data across cloud and on‑premises platforms.

Thales’ solution delivered centralized on‑premises key ownership, automated lifecycle management for millions of keys, and granular privileged‑user controls, enabling BYOE protections against external threats, insider abuse and CSP subpoenas. The deployment gave the customer complete visibility and control across subscriptions, met FERC and GDPR requirements, supported developer REST APIs, and enabled live data protection (including large systems like SAP HANA) with minimal downtime.