IBM® Guardium® Key Lifecycle Manager delivers streamlined encryption key management and enhances security by providing centralized key management for IBM and non-IBM storage solutions, including cloud storage solutions and applications, ensuring seamless integration.
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager is an encryption key management tool that centralizes, simplifies and automates the key management process. It offers robust and security-rich key storage, key serving and key lifecycle management for self-encrypting applications and solutions by using interoperability protocols, including KMIP, IPP and REST, and interfaces such as PKCS#11. Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager helps clients meet regulations such as PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA by providing access control, key rotation and other automated key lifecycle management processes.
Provides centralized, simplified and transparent key management through the secure storage of key materials and the serving of keys at the time of use
Offers simple, secure integration with supported protocols, including KMIP, IPP and REST, and interfaces such as PKCS#11
Reduces key management costs by automating the assignment and rotation of keys
Offers multiple deployment options, including on bare-metal servers, as a virtual machine or as a container
Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager requires a combination of both software and usage entitlements.
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