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Why organizations choose CipherTrust Cloud Key Management
Reduce complexity, strengthen control, and support compliance across cloud environments.
Simplify key operations
Manage cloud encryption keys from one interface, reducing complexity and improving visibility across environments.
Strengthen key control
Use customer-managed options like BYOK and HYOK to maintain greater control over sensitive workloads and enforce separation of duties.
Support compliance
Centralize policies, reporting, and audit visibility to demonstrate key-management controls for regulated workloads and data sovereignty.
Increase efficiency
Automate synchronization and key rotation to reduce repetitive work and improve consistency.
Expand deployment choice
Support public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments with flexible key ownership and protection.
Secure AI
Secure AI starts with encryption key control. As AI drives cloud sprawl, centralized key management becomes critical.
67 %
of organizations experienced an increase in credential theft and misappropriated secrets
53 %
of sensitive cloud data is unencrypted on average
31 %
of organizations now use a BYOK solution - making it the #1 method for managing encryption keys
Key Findings from the 2026 Thales Data Threat Report
What is cloud key management?
Cloud key management solutions help organizations generate, store, govern, and track the encryption keys used across cloud services. CipherTrust Cloud Key Management provides a centralized way to manage native cloud keys and customer-managed options across supported clouds, giving security and compliance teams one place to oversee lifecycle tasks, visibility, reporting, and control.
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Core capabilities of CipherTrust Cloud Key Management
Multi-cloud adoption gives organizations flexibility, but it also fragments encryption key management across provider-specific services, interfaces, and processes. That makes it harder to maintain visibility, enforce consistent controls, and prove compliance. For regulated or sensitive data, organizations also need stronger separation of duties and clearer control over who can access encryption keys.
Manage supported cloud keys through one interface with consistent metadata and oversight, helping teams work across clouds without switching between multiple provider-specific consoles.
Use native cloud keys or customer-managed options such as Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) and Hold Your Own Key (HYOK), depending on workload sensitivity, operational needs, and compliance requirements.
Automate synchronization, rotation support, and related lifecycle activity so cloud key administration becomes more consistent, scalable, and less dependent on manual effort.
Track key activity and use reports and logs to support governance, audit preparation, and regulatory review for mission-critical workloads.
Create and manage keys with supported Thales key sources and choose deployment models that fit cloud, hybrid, or on-premises operating requirements.
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See how centralized cloud key management can reduce complexity and strengthen control across multi-cloud environments
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Frequently asked questions
Cloud key management is the administration of encryption keys used to protect data across cloud services. It includes key creation, storage, rotation, visibility, reporting, and access control.
An external key manager can improve visibility, support separation of duties, and help organizations manage native and customer-managed key models across multiple clouds from one place.
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) lets an organization create key material and use it with a cloud provider. Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) keeps stronger customer control by keeping key operations outside the provider environment.
CCKM centralizes key visibility and lifecycle management across supported cloud services, helping teams avoid learning and maintaining separate workflows for each provider.
Yes. The product brief states that CCKM capabilities are available through RESTful APIs and also supports automated synchronization and automated key rotation.
CCKM supports centralized reporting, visibility, secure key origination, and customer-managed encryption options that help organizations demonstrate control for regulated or sensitive workloads.