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Thales works with IBM to Deliver Hardware-Based Secure Encryption Key Management for Storage
February 2010 by Marc Jacob
Thales announces it is working with IBM to integrate IBM Tivoli® Key Lifecycle Manager into Thales Encryption Manager for Storage (TEMS 2.0) to provide customers with a hardened tamper-resistant key management solution that fully exploits IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Management capability. TEMS will be expanded to address the key management requirements of the IBM storage portfolio of products, to provide important operational and security benefits to both IBM and Thales customers, including the convenience and assurance of a hardware appliance and standards-based key management controls needed to protect and store data and demonstrate compliance.
TEMS 2.0 is an easily deployed key management solution that consolidates and automates the management of encryption keys for heterogeneous storage environments delivering unified, fine-grained and auditable security controls and therefore greatly simplifies compliance reporting obligations. TEMS is delivered as a hardened tamper-resistant security appliance providing industry leading levels of protection* ensuring that keys are safe from attack and accidental loss and yet available on demand for legitimate data retrieval, emergency recovery and forensic activities. TEMS is the first key manager to support the draft IEEE P1619.3 key management standard and now with the integration of IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager functionality, customers will be able to manage keys across an even broader range of encryption-enabled storage devices and end-points – in particular IBM’s LTO4 tape and DS8000 disk storage systems.
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