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One of the most challenging aspects of managing a complex IT infrastructure is to ensure that it is available and secure, while keeping its TCO low. As public disclosures of breaches continue to rise, many businesses are contemplating encrypting sensitive data. However, the traditional philosophy of allowing application developers/vendors to come up with an encryption solution could result in IT Operations being forced to support more than one key-management infrastructure at a high TCO. Currently, every operating system, database and application performs encryption, and manages keys in its own way. Consequently, IT Operations is left to contend with unique and dissimilar key-management islands, and all that goes with their Operations, Administration & Maintenance (OA&M). Paradigm Shift StrongKey is the first, open-source symmetric key-management solution for the enterprise to break this inefficient model for managing symmetric keys: - Instead of key-management silos or islands, StrongKey gives you a single, enterprise-wide key-management infrastructure that can meet business unit and application development group's needs.
- Instead of having to deal with multiple key-management procedures, training and audits, StrongKey gives you a single OA&M process that covers all symmetric keys for the company;
- Instead of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for proprietary, stand-alone solutions, StrongKey gives you an open-source, standards-based solution at a fraction of the cost;
All this, while ensuring that you can meet the stringent encryption requirements of PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GLBA and/or SB-1386 (and its equivalent laws)! Forged from IT Operations' requirements StrongKey was created from the real-world requirements of a billion-dollar retail organization, processing millions of credit-card transactions each year in more than 400 stores across the US and Canada. The enterprise key-management system had to: - Work on Windows, Linux, UNIX and the iSeries-OS (OS/400);
- Work with multiple databases, file-formats and programming languages;
- Work even when the network was unavailable;
- Scale for tens of thousands of devices;
- Be secure enough to meet PCI-DSS;
- Be cost-effective;
StrongKey meets all these requirements.
| | | | | | - Written in Java it runs on any platform that has a Java Virtual Machine available;
- It even has C/C++ and RPG native modules available from StrongAuth, Inc. and IBM, respectively, so the native applications don't need to know about Java;
- It works with DB2, MySQL, Oracle, text-files, XML-files, binary-files;
- Though Secure Key-Caching, StrongKey clients can continue to encrypt/decrypt even when the network Symmetric Key Services server is unavailable;
- Built using the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) architecture, StrongKey leverages the capabilities of industrial-strength databases and application servers to address the needs of even the largest corporations in the world;
- Using some of the strongest key-management practices, StrongKey meets all the encryption-related requirements in PCI-DSS; it also meets more stringent government requirements (FIPS 140-2) when combined with cryptographic hardware security modules;
- StrongKey is free of licensing cost, thus making it one of the most cost-effective Enterprise Key Management solutions available.
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Read about StrongKey on these pages, and contact us when you're ready to discuss how it can help solve your key-management problems, once and for all. Not just for your laptops, applications or databases - but for your enterprise!
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