netHSMKey Management
Secure enterprises require superior key management solutions
As cryptography has come to play a greater role in securing enterprise data in transit and at rest, key management has become a critical issue for the enterprise. A cryptographic key is the mechanism by which encrypted data is deciphered, transacting parties are identified, and data integrity is validated. Yet global organizations may need to manage keys for thousands of users and hundreds of applications, and the key management process can quickly overburden an enterprise, compromising security and impacting profitability and productivity. Organizations require a solution that will not only provide critical protection, but be deployed with minimal impact on business processes. For leading organizations around the world today, nCipher provides this capability through its keyAuthority solution.
nCipher offers leading key management technology
As a leading provider of security technology for the enterprise, nCipher provides an innovative solution for key management in keyAuthority™. The keyAuthority Solution Suite offers centralized cryptographic key management on behalf of security applications across the enterprise and automated distribution of keys to heterogeneous server platforms and other end-points. By simplifying and centralizing the management of keys keyAuthority enables the enterprise to reduce operational costs, better enforce security policies and improve regulatory compliance.
Centralized management of cryptographic keys simplifies and strengthens security
The keyAuthority management system offers several significant benefits for the enterprise:
- Centralization — keyAuthority automatically generates, stores, retrieves, backs up and archives keys through a centralized management capability.
- Rapid deployment — a flexible architecture and open interface supports standard cryptographic algorithms and open standard security APIs, allowing enterprises to quickly deploy keyAuthority with minimal impact on servers and applications
- Scalability — keyAuthority can scale easily to support key distribution to thousands of geographically dispersed end-points
- Tamper resistant — nCipher hardware security modules are FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliant and offer increased security for each component of the keyAuthority system, supporting multi-party two-factor authentication
The nCipher keyAuthority Management Server allows security administrators to generate and archive keys, set up security policies and enroll end-points through a local management interface. The Management Console can be used remotely to support distributed management teams. And the keyAuthority Provisioning Server employs a mutual authentication process to securely distribute keys direct to users and end-points.
nCipher also delivers solutions for PKI and PKI software, RFC 3161-compliant timestamp technology, database encryption, an SSL accelerator, and more.
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