SafeNet Provides Enterprise Key Management

SafeNet, Inc. announced that Quantum Corp.‘s customers can now use SafeNet KeySecure, an Enterprise Key Management (EKM) solution, to manage encryption keys for Quantum Corp.‘s KMIP-enabled Scalar tape libraries.

"In order to address evolving security and compliance objectives, organizations are growing increasingly reliant upon encryption to safeguard their storage tape libraries," said Eric Bassier, director of tape automation products, Quantum. "With this increased reliance on encryption comes a corresponding increase in encryption keys, which must be persistently safeguarded and controlled. We’re pleased to leverage the KMIP standard so our customers can use solutions like KeySecure to more efficiently govern all their keys across the enterprise."

As the use of encryption spreads throughout an organization, security teams are increasingly burdened by the effort required to manage keys across their lifecycle-which includes such efforts as key generation, import/export, distribution, rotation, and destruction. KeySecure enables security teams to centrally manage keys from multiple vendors and across the key lifecycle. Having the capability to centrally manage and enforce key policies for regional, virtual, and cloud-based tape libraries provides a way to reduce administrative effort-while also reducing the risk of fragmented key stores, lost and stolen keys, and unauthorized access to business-critical information.

"Through the integration of KeySecure and the KMIP standard, enterprises can ensure the effective management and protection of their encryption keys from a central audit point, maximize efficiencies, and generate a greater return on their investments," said Tsion Gonen, chief strategy officer, SafeNet. "By leveraging SafeNet’s ‘integration ready’ key management technology, we are able to help Quantum’s Scaler customers fortify the security of their data in an easy and cost-effective manner."

KMIP Standard
It was developed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). KMIP was developed in order to establish a single protocol for standard communication between key management servers and the enterprise-wide cryptographic clients that use these keys. SafeNet was one of the organizations that lent people and expertise to the development of the KMIP standard. Other participating organizations included HP, IBM, and CA.