When a company stores critical data, whether in its own data center or in the cloud, encryption key management is vital to keeping that data secure, and letting the data center or cloud provider control the keys isn't always an option… In fact, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the Ponemon Institute and Thales eSecurity, 59 percent of companies said there was a high degree of pain associated with key management, up from 53 percent the year before.
