
As organizations consume more cryptography, traditional key management solutions often struggle with tracking and managing encryption keys and secrets. These solutions may lack the advanced features necessary to address evolving compliance and security mandates.
This creates obstacles for organizations seeking comprehensive contextual information about their cryptographic assets, hindering effective management and risk assessment. Modern key management solutions such as Entrust KeyControl now offer geographically distributed vaults that enable highly effective key and secrets management. This enables more robust data protection, enhances support for continually evolving security policies, and helps simplify compliance with regulatory mandates.
Entrust KeyControl, our key management solution, can be deployed as on-premises, hybrid, or as a service using Entrust KeyControl as a Service (KCaaS) in the United States and European markets. Entrust KCaaS allows for cloud-based management, directly addressing a challenge that traditional key management solutions present. With cloud-based KCaaS, organizations can streamline operations by eliminating the need to purchase, provision, configure, and maintain an on-premises environment.
Similar to the on-premises deployment of KeyControl, KCaaS offers a unified dashboard for complete visibility, traceability, and compliance tracking. One of its strongest features is an immutable audit trail of keys and secrets that can be conveniently managed through a cloud platform. Our decentralized vault architecture ensures keys remain secure within authorized endpoints, while also supporting a wide range of cryptographic use cases. Additionally, the platform offers decentralized security with centralized visibility across a cryptographic ecosystem. This means an organization’s cryptographic assets are not confined to a single, central repository.
Key features and benefits of the KCaaS platform available in the United States and European markets include:
- Key Lifecycle Management: Automates key storage, backup, distribution, rotation, and revocation, simplifying the management of encrypted workloads
- Key Inventory: Provides a centralized dashboard for fine-grained control, compliance, and risk tracking, translating complex requirements into actionable insights
- Decentralized Vault Architecture: Ensures keys never leave their designated vaults except to authorized endpoints, enhancing security and control
- Flexible Use Cases: Supports a wide range of use cases, catering to diverse needs such as Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), cloud key management options like Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) and Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) deployments, secrets management, privileged account session management, tokenization, and database protection
- Compliance Management: Continuous tracking of keys and secrets against compliance standards or best practices
- Scalability: Seamlessly scales to support millions of keys and secrets
- Risk Scoring: Provides continuous risk assessment and tracking for keys and secrets, ensuring proactive management and mitigation of potential security threats
For organizations requiring higher levels of assurance, KCaaS can be seamlessly integrated with a FIPS 140-3 and Common Criteria EAL4+ certified Entrust nShield hardware security module (HSM). An HSM provides an additional layer of security, protecting the keys managed by KCaaS. It’s also used in the process of generating cryptographic keys, ensuring the HSM’s random number generator is used in keys created and managed by KeyControl vaults irrespective of which vault type is deployed.
By combining all the key elements of visibility, compliance, risk measurement, documentation, processes, data sovereignty, decentralization, integration, and third-party support, Entrust KeyControl as a Service can help meet the stringent regulatory challenges face by today’s enterprises.
Learn more about Entrust KeyControl as a Service and how Entrust can help you save capital expenditures, gain greater visibility of your cryptographic assets, maintain control of your critical keys, and strengthen your database security.