This joint solution between Microsoft and CloudLink provides customers with a seamless solution that gives them complete control over their own encryption keys while leveraging the security, convenience and reliability of cloud-based key management. With this solution, the cloud provider is responsible for key generation and storage. The customer, as the data owner, controls the security policy that regulates encryption key access and use.

This security policy is managed using CloudLink Center, a web interface that provides a single-pane-of-glass view of the VMs in the cloud environment under CloudLink management. Key benefits of this solution for customers running VMs in the Microsoft Azure cloud include: VMs are secured with keys backed by a hardware-based key management solution; Each customer, as the data owner, has complete and singular control of the security policy that regulates encryption key management, and therefore access to data, at all times; Seamless integration between CloudLink and Microsoft Azure Key Vault provides ease of deployment and ease of use.