MPLS Encryption & Security

MPLS is one of the fastest growing networking technologies today. Companies are migrating from their legacy infrastructure to MPLS to take advantage of its cost savings and compatibility advantages. These companies are also becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of security on MPLS networks. In the early days of the MPLS migration, the service was often positioned as being a secure form of transport. However, this proved to be more of a marketing claim than a defensible technical feature.

The truth is, MPLS provides logical separation of traffic over a shared virtual network. The service provider offers the same MPLS network to multiple companies and often outsources local transport network services to third party carriers, which are also shared networks. Unless you specifically request and arrange otherwise, the service provider sends your data in the clear across these shared multi-carrier networks.

Fortunately, with CipherEngine, companies that want the advantages of MPLS no longer have to worry about its inherent lack of data security. CipherEngine's unique approach to policy and key management gives you unprecedented encryption manageability, transparency and flexibility on your existing MPLS network.

The CipherEngine solution allows organizations to easily encrypt data in motion, using a global policy and key manager along with both hardware and software-based encryption enforcement points. The CipherEngine data protection solution offers best-of-breed performance, elegantly simple installation and management, and breakthrough scalability. CipherEngine gives you the power to protect data in motion wherever, however and whenever you want, without changes or disruptions to your MPLS network, your infrastructure, or your operations.

The following case studies detail how CipherOptics has helped two customers resolve their MPLS security concerns with the CipherEngine data protection solution:

Regional Bank Case Study
Credit Union Service Provider Case Study

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The CipherOptics data protection solution easily integrates into your existing MPLS network. To speak directly with a CipherOptics encryption specialist, call us at 1-877-878-6655 or feel free to ask us a ask us a question.