Data Retention Use Case

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Advanced Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Data Retention Systems

• Unparalleled Data Protection: FHE ensures that sensitive telecommunications data remains encrypted throughout its lifecycle, even during processing and analysis.
• Regulatory Compliance: FHE helps providers meet compliance requirements related to data privacy and security.
• Efficient LEA Investigations: FHE enables law enforcement agencies to conduct investigations on encrypted data.
• Scalability and Performance: Advanced FHE solutions handle large data volumes while maintaining optimal performance.

A Data Privacy Win, Win, Win

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a revolutionary approach to data security, is now an advanced form of encryption that Data Retention System (DRS) providers can implement to offer ultimate protection for data privacy. Rising data breaches and regulatory scrutiny increase pressure on DRS providers to implement secure data retention solutions. FHE allows computations on encrypted data without decryption, ensuring ongoing security.

What is FHE?

FHE is a cryptographic method that enables secure data processing in untrusted environments while maintaining privacy and confidentiality by performing operations on encrypted data without decryption.

FHE Use Case: Data Retention

DRS providers face challenges from telecom giants, LEAs, and stringent privacy regulations. Providers must manage large volumes of Call Detail Records (CDRs) and IP Detail Records (IPDRs) while maintaining compliance and innovating to stay ahead of cyber threats.

The Challenge

At DataKrypto, we understand the importance of highly performant data security in telecommunications. Our FHE library, FHEnom™, was designed to meet the rigorous demands of telco environments, where rapid and scalable results are essential.

The Solution

End-to-end encryption with FHE ensures that data remains secure throughout its lifecycle and is only visible to authorized users, rendering unauthorized access impossible and data worthless to malicious actors.

FHEnom™ Features and Benefits

Features

• End-to-End Encryption: All data, including CDRs, IPDRs, and audit logs, remains encrypted from ingestion to analysis.
• Real-Time Computation on Encrypted Data: Users can perform searches, aggregations, and analysis on encrypted data without decryption.
• Automatic Encryption of Audit Logs: All queries and database replies are encrypted to keep audit logs secure.
• Protection Against Unauthorized Database Triggers: Unauthorized triggers produce only encrypted output, preventing data breaches by DBAs or other malicious actors.
• Scalable Encryption: FHEnom scales horizontally to maintain performance as data volumes grow.

Benefits

• Enhanced Security: Protects sensitive CDRs and IPDRs from unauthorized access.
• Performance Efficiency: Optimized to ensure minimal impact on performance for encrypted data operations.
• Scalability: Easily scalable to handle large data volumes without performance degradation.
• Simplify Compliance: Meets data protection regulations like GDPR and NIS2.

Data Retention System Components

FHEnom is a secure solution for managing and analyzing sensitive communications data, such as CDRs and IPDRs. It is available as a software development kit (SDK) with APIs for encryption, decryption, and search.

Case Study

A major telecom provider’s Data Retention System faced a critical security incident where rogue DBAs accessed audit logs, interfering with LEA investigations. DataKrypto implemented FHEnom across the platform, ensuring end-to-end encryption to resolve unauthorized access and eliminate security threats. DataKrypto.com 10.2024 | ©2024 For more information, visit www.datakrypto.com