Overview
Protect data with centralized key lifecycle management
IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager centralizes, simplifies, and automates the encryption key management process to help protect encrypted data and simplify encryption key management. It offers secure and robust key storage, key serving, and key lifecycle management for self-encrypting applications and solutions using interoperability protocols including KMIP, IPP and REST. Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager helps customers meet regulations including PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA by providing access control, key rotation, and other automated key lifecycle management processes.
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Why Guardium
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1,000
hours of DBA time saved with automated processes
Benefits
Centralized, transparent key management
Provides centralized, simplified, and transparent key management through the secure storage of key material and the serving of keys at the time of use.
Simple, secure integration
Offers simple, secure integration with supported protocols including KMIP, IPP and REST.
Lower costs
Reduces key management costs by automating the assignment and rotation of keys.
Flexible deployment
Multiple options for deployment on bare-metal, as a virtual machine, or as a container
Features
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Enables multi-master clustering for flexibility and ease of use
Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager supports multi-master clustering, which means that security keys may be synchronized and delivered in real time, enabling greater flexibility and ease of use. More than 20 masters may be synchronized at a time — for hyper-redundancy and localized availability — so keys are ready and available when and where needed.
Provides more efficient and simplified key management
This solution enables you to manage the lifecycle of keys by automating the creation, import, distribution, and back-up of keys. It enables key generation and distribution from a centralized location and groups devices into separate domains for simpler key management. It also supports role-based access control of administrative accounts.
Delivers secured key management
Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager provides cryptographically proven, end-to-end security for key serving. It offers automated replication for high-availability deployments, supports Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 1, and offers users the option to use FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated hardware to enhance key security.
Speeds implementation
This solution reduces operating costs, speeds implementation, and enables interoperability with wizard-based assistance. It enables administrators to quickly configure integration with KMIP, IPP or REST-compatible devices, and provides an administration welcome page that delivers critical notices. It offers a web-based GUI that helps ease key configuration and management tasks, including automating key provisioning, rotating keys, and destroying keys.
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Resources
What You Need to Know About Data Encryption
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Technical specifications
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Technical documentation
See the latest on all IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager version 4 and 3 releases.
System requirements
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