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Interoperability specification to aid IT security,
compliance and data recovery
The Security Division of EMC, executive director of OASIS. “We
Seagate and Thales (formerly applaud Brocade, HP, IBM, LSI, RSA,
WSFILE
nCipher) have announced the Seagate and Thales for choosing to
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creation of a jointly developed advance KMIP through the open
specification for enterprise key standards process, and we
management that is engineered encourage others in the security
to dramatically simplify how community-both users and
companies encrypt and safeguard providers-to participate in the
information. The companies — standardisation of this very
leaders in enterprise computing, important work.”
storage, and security —
developed the Key Management Developed by leading enterprise
Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) storage, systems and security
in response to customers’ needs vendors, KMIP is designed to
to enable the widespread use of provide a single, comprehensive
encryption. The companies intend compliance with industry and protocol for communication between
to submit KMIP to OASIS government regulations,” says enterprise key management
(Organisation for the Charles Kolodgy, research director services and encryption systems.
Advancement of Structured at IDC. “Time and time again, our Brocade, HP, IBM, LSI, RSA,
Information Standards) for research shows the primary barrier Seagate and Thales are committed
advancement through the to the widespread use of encryption to delivering KMIP-enabled
organisation’s open standards is the fear that encrypted data will solutions. By taking advantage of
process. be lost - slowing the adoption of KMIP-enabled software and devices,
encryption. Users are demanding companies will be able to cut
KMIP was developed by HP, IBM, strong key management systems operational costs and reduce risk by
RSA and Thales to meet the and advancing this work through the removing redundant, incompatible
compelling needs of today’s open standards process offers key management processes.
enterprise data center tangible benefits for vendors,
environments, with Brocade, LSI developers and enterprises alike.” Streamlined key management is
and Seagate joining the effort. All essential in a wide variety of data
seven companies will now be Companies often deploy separate management processes. For
devoting time and resources to encryption and key management example, the data recovery process
OASIS for ongoing development. systems for different business uses, requires locating encryption keys
such as laptops, storage, databases quickly even for tapes created
According to IDC, 44 percent of and applications, and until now weeks or months earlier. At the
enterprises plan to encrypt more cumbersome - often manual - same time, this efficiency must not
than 75 percent of their data by efforts were necessary to generate, impact the security of keys or
2009, and one of the top two distribute, vault, expire, and rotate violate corporate policies regarding
issues related to deploying encryption keys. This has resulted in how keys are stored and distributed.
encryption is the ability to increased costs for IT, difficulty KMIP enables vendors to address
recover the data. meeting audit and compliance this need for enterprise-wide key
requirements, and lost data. “The IT management, providing customers
“The use of encryption is widely community is asking for open with better data security and
recognised as the best method standards and interoperability to decreased expenditures on multiple
for protecting valuable help meet the increasing demand key management products and
information and enabling for encryption,” says Laurent Liscia, operations.
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