Who is CipherCloud?
CipherCloud is a cybersecurity vendor that provides data-centric cloud security and data protection controls for enterprise use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and other cloud applications.
- Data-centric cloud security platform for SaaS, IaaS, and web applications (cloud security)
- Data protection controls such as encryption, tokenization, and masking for sensitive information stored or processed in cloud services (data security)
- Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) capabilities for visibility, access control, and policy enforcement across cloud applications (CASB)
- Support for regulatory compliance requirements through data governance, audit, and policy-based controls (compliance management)
- Integration with enterprise identity, key management, and Security Operations (SecOps) environments (security integration)
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CipherCloud focuses on data-centric security for organizations that rely on cloud services, including SaaS applications, IaaS platforms, and web-based business tools. Its offerings are positioned to allow enterprises to adopt cloud applications while retaining control over sensitive information such as customer data, financial records, intellectual property, and regulated personal data. The company’s technology is typically deployed by security, risk, and compliance teams in sectors that operate under formal regulatory frameworks, including financial services, healthcare, government, and large commercial enterprises.
The vendor is widely associated with CASB capabilities (cloud security), providing visibility into cloud usage, policy enforcement for access and data handling, and protection measures that operate between users and cloud services. CASB functions typically include discovery of sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud applications, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) features, and access controls based on user identity, device posture, or location. CipherCloud aligns these controls with enterprise security policies so that organizations can set rules for how sensitive data is stored, shared, or downloaded from cloud platforms.
CipherCloud’s data protection features (data security) generally rely on methods such as strong encryption, tokenization, and data masking. These techniques allow enterprises to keep data in a protected state while it resides in multi-tenant cloud environments, with keys or tokenization maps managed under enterprise control. Architecturally, this can involve proxy-based or API-based integration with cloud applications, where data is transformed before it leaves the enterprise environment or before it is written to cloud storage. This approach enables organizations to enforce field-level or object-level protection for structured and unstructured data while maintaining application usability for authorized users.
From a compliance perspective (compliance management), CipherCloud is used to support adherence to regulations and standards that govern data privacy, residency, and security controls. The platform typically offers auditing, logging, and reporting features that map security events and policy decisions to specific users, datasets, and cloud applications. These capabilities help enterprises document controls for frameworks such as data protection laws and industry-specific security standards, and to demonstrate that sensitive information in cloud services is encrypted or otherwise protected according to policy.
In enterprise environments, CipherCloud is positioned in directories and solution taxonomies under categories such as cloud security, CASB, data protection, and compliance management. Its integrations (security integration) with identity providers, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, and key management infrastructures allow security teams to fold cloud data protection into existing access management and monitoring workflows. This positioning aligns CipherCloud with other cloud security and data protection tools that enterprises use to manage risk as they expand their reliance on cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
Our description of CipherCloud. Updated December 2025.
