netHSMKey Management Software
Key management software is critical for enterprise security
Increasingly, organizations are turning to cryptography to establish identity, provide data privacy, and prove data integrity. In cryptographic security systems, a key is used to encrypt and decrypt data, validate security and authenticate signatures. Because the protection of these cryptographic keys is critical to achieving optimal security, and since the global enterprise may need to manage keys for thousands of users and applications, a superior key management software solution is paramount. The right software can help an organization centralize the management, generation and distribution of keys, and deliver greater security while also reducing operational costs. Equally importantly the management software should not impact system performance or inconvenience legitimate users. For leading enterprises nCipher provides the key management software of choice.
nCipher provides superior key management software
nCipher keyAuthority is a key management software suite that simultaneously delivers greater security and cost savings. keyAuthority provides:
Sophisticated centralized functionality. keyAuthority allows organizations to centrally manage and automate the generation, storage, archiving and backup of cryptographic keys.
Scalable architecture. keyAuthority supports the organization's ability to grow and evolve by allowing distribution to thousands of end-points over a diverse geographic area.
Hardware-protected architecture. keyAuthority includes FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated hardware security modules (HSM) that provide greater resistance to tampering.
Support for wide range of applications and devices. KeyAuthority manages keys on behalf of a wide variety of application software through standard cryptographic APIs and delivers keys to various host platforms including those fitted with hardware security devices such as HSMs or trusted platform modules (TPM).
Software and hardware for management of cryptography keys
nCipher keyAuthority software includes:
- keyAuthority Management Server — this central component of the system generates and archives keys, establishes policies and enrolls end-points. Management Server allows administrators can change system-wide configurations quickly and cost-efficiently, and preserves the integrity of security policies, records of audits, and the binding of names to keys and other objects.
- keyAuthority Management Console — a standalone user interface for the keyAuthority system. Because the Management Server will often reside in a secure and likely inconvenient facility, the Console simplifies administration by allowing administrators to access and manage keyAuthority from network-connected terminals across the enterprise.
- keyAuthority Provisioning Server —distribution point for delivering keys to end-points and applications on-demand using a mutually authenticated secure protocol.
nCipher also provides technology for SSL TLS, data protection software, Elliptic curve cryptography, database encryption, time stamping and more.
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