HIVE

Protect Sensitive Data
Without Disrupting Your Systems

HIVE helps enterprises encrypt critical database fields without schema changes, architecture redesign, or vendor access to data. Live in under 2 days.

Your Database
HIVE
Field-Level Encryption
Your App
Plaintext Field
Samer Rizq
Number Field
501234567
The Problem

A Data Breach Is Not an IT Issue. It Is a Business Crisis.

Risk Lens

The little things matter

Every company stores sensitive data: customer records, financial information, internal documents, user credentials, and business-critical systems. When this data is exposed, the impact is not limited to technical recovery. It can lead to direct financial loss, legal pressure, operational downtime, regulatory exposure, and long-term damage to customer trust.

Risk Lens

Reputation & Real-World Impact

According to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the global average cost of a data breach reached USD 4.44 million, while the Middle East was reported as one of the highest-cost regions, averaging around USD 7.29 million per breach. History has shown that even the biggest companies can suffer serious consequences after a breach. Equifax exposed the personal information of approximately 147 million people and later agreed to a settlement of at least USD 575 million, potentially reaching USD 700 million.

Risk Lens

Saudi Compliance Angle

In Saudi Arabia, cybersecurity is no longer optional. Organizations are expected to align with national and sector-specific cybersecurity requirements. The National Cybersecurity Authority has issued the Essential Cybersecurity Controls, while IA database encryption mandates and the SAMA Cyber Security Framework require organizations to identify gaps and improve the effectiveness of their cybersecurity controls.

The real question is no longer:

Will we be targeted?

The real question is:

If sensitive data is exposed, will it still be protected?

Traditional security tools focus on preventing access, but once attackers bypass the perimeter, sensitive data can still be exposed. Companies need a stronger layer that keeps critical data unreadable, controlled, and protected even in high-risk environments.

Protect your sensitive data before a breach becomes a business crisis.

The Solution

HIVE Protects Your Data Without Disrupting Your Business

HIVE protects sensitive data with advanced encryption that is fast to deploy, easy to use, and designed for compliance-driven environments. Exposed data stays unreadable and unusable to unauthorized users, even if systems are breached or accounts are compromised.

Unlike traditional encryption, HIVE works with minimal disruption - helping organizations reduce breach impact, strengthen security, and support compliance without slowing the business.

NIST

Tested for Strong Randomness

HIVE has successfully passed testing aligned with NIST SP 800-22 and NIST SP 800-90B, supporting strong randomness, encryption reliability, and security. HIVE also supports data protection requirements related to PDPL, helping organizations protect sensitive and personal data while reducing exposure risk.

Agile Protection

Minimal Disruption by Design

Traditional encryption often creates operational challenges: schema migrations, architecture redesign, vendor access to the data environment, added latency, and long implementation cycles. HIVE removes these barriers by working with your existing database, existing code, and existing team.

Why HIVE

Protection Without Operational Drag

HIVE is built for organizations that need strong data protection without interrupting business operations. It helps protect customer records, financial data, internal files, credentials, and business-critical information while keeping control in your hands.

1

No Schema Changes

Drop in next to your existing tables. Columns stay the same.

2

No Architecture Redesign

Slots into your current .NET stack. No new services to run.

3

No Vendor Access

Your keys, your data. We literally cannot read it.

Performance Built In
<10% CPU Overhead
~0ms Latency
<1 wk Deploy Time
<5 hrs Integration
Banking Fintech Insurance Healthcare Government Banking Fintech Insurance Healthcare Government

Protect your sensitive data before a breach becomes a business crisis.

For Businesses

Reduce Breach Exposure. Strengthen Compliance.

HIVE helps organizations reduce the financial, operational, and reputational impact of data exposure while supporting compliance-driven environments.

Business Value

With HIVE, business leaders can improve data protection, reduce breach exposure, and build stronger trust with clients, regulators, and stakeholders.

Stronger protection
Lower exposure risk
Compliance support
Faster security adoption
Why Companies Delay Encryption
  • Traditional encryption requires database changes
  • Deployment can take weeks or months
  • Security teams worry about performance and disruption
  • Teams often need more engineering resources

HIVE removes these barriers by making encryption fast, practical, and easier to deploy.

Regulation

PDPL Readiness

Support data protection requirements related to sensitive and personal data while reducing exposure risk.

Mandate

SAMA & NCA Alignment

Strengthen readiness for NCA ECC, SAMA cybersecurity maturity work, and sector-specific database encryption mandates.

NIST-Aligned

Documented Security Evidence

Use NIST-tested encryption evidence to support internal security reviews and compliance-driven cybersecurity programs.

The Comparison

How HIVE Stacks Up

vs. IBM Guardium · Oracle TDE · Microsoft Always Encrypted · Thales CipherTrust · Vault by HashiCorp

CPU Usage HIVE
Industry
+25-35%
HIVE
<10%
Deployment Time HIVE
Industry
Weeks
HIVE
<1 Week
Query Latency HIVE
Industry
2-5x slower
HIVE
~0ms
Code Changes HIVE
Industry
100s hours
HIVE
<5 hours
Vendor Data Access HIVE
Industry
Often required
HIVE
Zero

Zero Vendor Access

Your keys, your data. We never touch it.

Secure From First Millisecond

No warm-up, no grace period. Encryption is on from day one.

Audit-Ready by Default

Structured for compliance reviews. Inspectors leave satisfied.

AI-Resistant Encryption

Designed to withstand next-generation decryption attempts.

Protect your sensitive data before a breach becomes a business crisis.

For Developers

Integrate in Hours. Not Months.

HIVE is an SDK-first encryption layer that slots into your existing .NET codebase with minimal changes and zero performance tax.

01

Add the SDK Reference

Import the HIVE enterprise services namespace into your .NET project.

using HIVE.EnterprisServices;
02

Create the FLE Manager

Instantiate the HIVE field-level encryption manager and point it to your production key.

HIVE_FLE_Manager HiveSDK = new HIVE_FLE_Manager();
03

Load, Encrypt, Decrypt

Load the key once, encrypt before storage, and decrypt after retrieval.

HiveSDK.Enc(employeeID)
Manager Setup. Workflow Ready.

Load the key, then call HiveSDK.Enc()

The HIVE SDK manager handles key loading plus explicit encrypt and decrypt calls inside your existing application flow.

* Illustrative example - not a complete or real implementation.

EmployeeEncryption.cs
//1. Add Reference to HIVE SDK
using HIVE.EnterprisServices;

//2.Declare and create an instance of HIVE SDK Field-Level Encryption (FLE) Class
HIVE_FLE_Manager HiveSDK = new HIVE_FLE_Manager();

string hiveKeyFilePath = @"..\\..\\hiveProductionKey.HSK";

//3. Load HIVE Encryption Key
HiveSDK.LoadKey(hiveKeyFilePath, HIVEKeyEnvironment.PRODUCTION);

int employeeID = 1233454;

//......encrypt field using HIVE SDK..........
int encryptedEmpID = HiveSDK.Enc(employeeID);
//......insert encrypted field into Database............

//......retrieve encrypted field from database......
//......decrypt using HIVE SDK
int decryptedID = HiveSDK.Dec(encryptedEmpID);
<0%
CPU Overhead
~0ms
Added Latency
<0hrs
Time to Integration
Type-Preserving

Encryption That Speaks Your Language

HIVE encrypts field values while preserving the original data type. Your ORM, your queries, your database schema - all unchanged.

Before HIVE PLAINTEXT
typeint
value1233454
fieldemployeeID
After HIVE ENCRYPTED
typeint (same)
value89422117
fieldencryptedEmpID (same flow)
Supported Environments

Plays Nice With Your Stack

.NET 6 / 7 / 8
Modern runtime support
SQL Server · PostgreSQL · Oracle
Database agnostic
Azure · AWS · On-Premise
Deploy anywhere
Entity Framework Core
ORM-native integration
HIVE Trust Center

Tested. Documented. Built for Compliance-Driven Environments.

Trust in encryption should not depend only on marketing claims. HIVE's field-level encryption SDK has been tested against recognized NIST statistical and entropy assessment methodologies to provide empirical evidence of ciphertext randomness, entropy behavior, and resistance to predictable patterns.

NIST SP 800-22 Tested

NIST SP 800-90B Tested

NCA & SAMA Compliance Support

The reports evaluated HIVE under a demanding scenario: deterministic, size-preserving, type-preserving encryption without IVs, using highly predictable sequential 64-bit integers as input - a worst-case cryptographic test designed to challenge the cipher's diffusion and avalanche behavior.

NIST SP 800-22

Statistical Randomness Assessment

HIVE was tested using the NIST SP 800-22 Statistical Test Suite, which evaluates binary sequences for non-random patterns, bias, correlations, compressibility, and statistical uniformity. Across 10 independent testing rounds, HIVE maintained average pass rates between 98.55% and 99.20% across all 15 categories.

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NIST SP 800-90B

Entropy Assessment

HIVE was assessed using NIST SP 800-90B entropy testing to measure conservative min-entropy and evaluate whether ciphertext streams showed measurable predictability under non-IID estimators. The assessment tested approximately 32.4 million 8-bit symbols per round across 10 independent rounds.

Download the report
15/15
NIST SP 800-22 categories passed
98.55%-99.20%
Average pass-rate range
10
Independent test runs
~32.4M
Symbols per round
6.313
Bits per byte min-entropy
100% PASS
Restart sanity check
Compliance & Governance

By protecting data at the field level and producing documented NIST-tested evidence, HIVE helps security, compliance, and technology teams strengthen their internal cybersecurity posture and support requirements related to NCA, SAMA, PDPL, and NIST-aligned security programs.

Agile Protection

HIVE does not require a warm-up period to become secure. Encryption output remains unpredictable from the first encrypted bytes after initialization, supporting key agility and state independence.

Get Started

Book a Technical Discovery Call or Start a 14-Day POC

Protect your sensitive data before a breach becomes a business crisis. No infrastructure changes. No commitment. Just working encryption in your environment.

Primary Interest

We never store or access your data. HIVE is zero-footprint by design.