Every enterprise pushing into the cloud hits the same wall – control. It includes control over who sees their data, where it lives and how it’s protected across regions, vendors, and workloads. That’s the space Thales owns.

Across Oracle environments, Thales has established itself as the control layer. It’s become the invisible foundation, which helps enterprises migrate without compromise. Todd Moore, Global Vice President of Data Encryption Products at Thales, leads this effort.

“We help enterprises solve complex data protection challenges across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments. In the Oracle landscape, our role is clear—we help customers retain control of their most sensitive data without compromising agility.” – Todd Moore.

Thales is the only supported vendor for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) model. The company worked closely with Oracle during the design and development of the OCI Vault External Key Management Service (EKMS), enabling enterprises to bring their own keys for cloud workloads. This integration is not superficial. It reshapes the control plane, allowing customers, not cloud providers, to decide who sees what, and when.

It reflects alignment with Oracle’s strategy of interoperable cloud ecosystems that extend across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Salesforce, and SAP. Thales doesn’t just plug into these environments—it helps unify them for enterprises that demand seamless, secure control.

“Global enterprise customers are regularly surprised to learn that our industry-leading cloud delivered SaaS key manager can be securely implemented in a few hours and provide organizations the flexibility to manage the security of their encryption keys outside of the cloud provider borders,” said Moore.

The stakes are high. By 2025, 85% of organisations will adopt a cloud-first approach. Already, 60% of corporate data resides in cloud systems. But cloud adoption isn’t without risk. Only 29% of organisations control their own encryption keys. And just 24% know where all their data is stored. These are not gaps—they’re liabilities.

Thales addresses this reality through its CipherTrust Data Security Platform — a unified solution offering data discovery, classification, tokenisation, encryption, key management, and access control.

It reduces vendor sprawl, simplifies governance, and strengthens compliance across complex infrastructures. This is particularly important in industries under sovereign cloud mandates, where data must remain within national borders.

“We understand the weight of what we protect,” Moore explains. “In environments governed by privacy laws, localisation rules, and geopolitical shifts, encryption isn’t enough. Control over keys is what delivers real trust.”

In the Oracle ecosystem, Thales’ Cloud Key Management delivers operational resilience to customers deploying sovereign workloads through Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer (DRCC).

One example includes large telecom providers building national clouds to support ministries and local enterprises. Thales’ key control architecture enables these infrastructures to scale securely, tenant by tenant, without creating regulatory risk.

Thales is also evolving. The acquisition of Imperva expanded its capabilities beyond data encryption into application and API security.

As a result, Thales now delivers holistic protection across all paths to data — at rest, in motion, and in use. The company leads Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls and was named an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Data Security Platforms.

None of this happened overnight. Thales has a 35,000-strong customer base across 25 countries, with over 6,700 partners and a workforce of more than 4,100 cybersecurity professionals.

Its roadmap is shaped by long-standing relationships with some of the world’s most demanding clients—from national governments to financial giants.

In a cloud-driven future, enterprises need more than agility. They need clarity, visibility, and control. Thales is helping Oracle customers achieve that, securely and effortlessly.