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Thales announced new data protection solutions for Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, solidifying its role as a trusted third party for multicloud data security. With each cloud provider having unique data protection mechanisms and key management offerings, multicloud data protection presents a complex security challenge for organizations.

Thales has announced an expansion of its SafeNet Trusted Access solution, offering customers full access management protection across all applications or services in any IT environment. With SafeNet Trusted Access, customers can authenticate API access, reducing the threat surface within an organization's IT environment.

Thales and Senetas have collaborated to launch the world's first quantum resistant network encryption solution, capable of protecting customer data against future quantum attacks. The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology is currently selecting finalists amongst the quantum safe encryption algorithms being developed.

Thales has been selected by the French Ministry of the Interior to deliver several hundred pre-registration kiosks at various border crossing points. France will be equipped with a biometric solution to streamline and secure its air, land and sea border crossings.

Thales announces a new data protection capability for Microsoft customers to benefit from the power of the full range of Microsoft 365 applications while protecting sensitive data in the cloud and meeting major data privacy regulations and requirements. Designed for companies that operate in highly-regulated sectors such as financial services and healthcare, they can now leverage Thales Luna Hardware Security Modules with Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365 and comply with regulations such as the EU GDPR, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the recommendations from the European Data Protection Board following the Schrems II ruling.

Today its technologies enable Axis Bank's wearables as a stylish and secure contactless way of payment. Thales has managed to condense the technology of a contactless payment card into a tiny piece of secure payment technology - Thales Gemalto FlexiTag - that can be invisibly integrated into a vast range of wearable shapes and sizes.

Sequans Communications announced that Thales intends to use Sequans' second generation Monarch 2 and Calliope 2 platforms as a basis for its new generation of Cinterion IoT LTE-M/NB-IoT and Cat 1 modules. Thales has been using Sequans' first generation massive IoT modem technology in its Cinterion IoT modules since 2015 and has shipped them worldwide.

Thales announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud that will accelerate the ability of enterprises to safely migrate sensitive data between public cloud, hybrid and private IT infrastructures. Building on a multi-year history of innovation around a variety of cloud security initiatives, Thales and Google Cloud will now empower customers to leverage the full potential of Google Cloud technology for sensitive workloads while gaining the external key management needed to control and secure data across hybrid cloud IT environments.

Thales showcases the world's only double-sided ID card reader, the first to be able to examine ID cards or driving licenses in the cloud in less than four seconds. The Thales Gemalto Intelligent Double-sided ID Card Reader CR5400i enables fast, secure and remote identity document verification.

Thales has launched its Identity Verification Suite, in response to the rising need of remote client onboarding. With privacy and user experience as its heart, the IDV Suite enables a secure and 100%-AI identity verification service.