Overview

Protect data with centralized key lifecycle management

IBM Security® 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.

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Why Guardium

Customers realize value quickly with the full set of Guardium features

75%
reduction in audit prep with automated compliance audit and reporting

60
billion security events per day in 130+ countries monitored by IBM for constant vigilance

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, and interfaces such as PKCS#11.

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

Deeper insights and broader integrations mean stronger data security

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Features

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Resources

What You Need to Know About Data Encryption

Learn all about the basics of data encryption, including different types and how it works.

Try a Key Management System

Learn how an encryption key management system keeps data secure from unauthorized use, alteration, exfiltration or deletion.

Technical specifications

See the IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager supported devices.

Technical documentation

See the latest on all IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager version 4 and 3 releases.

System requirements

See the support matrix for hardware, operating systems, browsers, hypervisors, middleware, HSMs, and KMIP.

Guardium user community

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Next steps

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