CipherTrust Manager and IBM N Series: Securing Network-Attached Storage - Solution Brief

Today’s enterprise often finds itself needing to manage several encryption solutions that have proliferated across multiple tiers and vendor platforms, and have been deployed within primary, secondary, and even cloud-based data centers. This fragmented approach to data security has left many organizations in a management and operational quandary. Successfully implementing encryption is fundamental to addressing regulatory mandates, regularly passing security audits, and protecting sensitive information. However, as the number of encryption solutions increases, so too does the number of encryption keys, key stores, and associated access policies that must be managed. Security teams struggle to contend with the administrative effort of managing not only encryption deployments but also the associated key lifecycle operations. In order to cost-effectively support such an environment and bring it into regulatory compliance, centralized enterprise key management must be part of the solution.