Fairfax, VA – Jan. 5, 2021 – Craxel, a leading-edge software company, today announced a major release of its Black Forest Cloud Data Platform™. This latest version of Black Forest introduces high-performance searchable encryption, which delivers the ability to query strongly encrypted records without the encryption keys ever being present in the data layer.

Unlike deterministic encryption approaches for simple data lookups, Black Forest’s high-performance searchable encryption supports complex data types as well as range and spatial queries. Black Forest version 2.1 fully integrates Craxel’s Zero Trust layer to provide pervasive compartmentalization and highly secure, granular access controls. An international reinsurance firm successfully completed security and performance testing for organizing global shipping data using Black Forest, proving this capability is ready for large scale enterprise adoption.

“Our Black Forest software continues its unbroken streak of successful testing, even under the most rigorous challenges by the world’s largest clients,” said David Enga, Founder and CEO of Craxel. “This technology delivers extraordinarily fast time to insight for high volume, high velocity use cases, enabling very rapid human and automated decision making, while dramatically simplifying the implementation of granular security controls over the data.”

The three-day penetration test by an independent security firm determined that the data stored in Black Forest was encrypted as expected and the encryption keys were verified not to be present anywhere (memory, disk, etc.) in the data layer. Users with root access to the Black Forest servers were not able to access any of the information stored in Black Forest.

In addition to testing data security, performance tests were undertaken to prove that with this level of security, mission critical key performance metrics could be achieved. Users were able to query across a data set of 1 billion strongly encrypted records for everything known about a single entity over a 12-month period, returning results in 2.597 seconds. Strongly encrypted records were inserted and indexed at a rate of 350,000 per second. It was estimated that Craxel's high-performance searchable encryption was at least 1,386,214 times faster than fully homomorphic encryption at this scale.

“Typically, enterprises sacrifice speed for security,” said Greg Webb, Craxel Senior Vice President, Corporate Development. “Craxel has proven that this tradeoff is no longer necessary.”