Micro Focus Voltage SecureData implements stateless key management, giving enterprises unprecedented scale and simplified key management. With Voltage SecureData, key management is also abstracted, which means developers don’t ever hold keys and hence don’t need to store them. Instead they store identities – key names – which can be meaningful strings, such as PAN, SSN, SensitiveData, etc. Developers can store these identities in properties files without any protection, since they are not sensitive. SecureData client software takes care of the key management processes – key retrieval, security, cache, etc. With remote, REST-based operation, keys are never exposed outside of the SecureData server. SecureData enables key derivation at the SecureData server or within an HSM.
Encryption can be hard, and key management is even harder; but there are ways to make key management easier while fully complying with even the most rigorous standards. Voltage SecureData makes key management easy, helping to shield this critical aspect of a data security program.