In a hybrid cloud environment, IBM is launching a new service to help customers manage their data encryption keys.
Customers can use Unified Key Orchestrator to integrate all of their security key management systems into a single managed service backed by IBM’s Hardware Security Module (HSM). HSM is IBM’s system that protects against physical and logical threats and includes special hardware for cryptographic operations and protect key.
Unified Key Orchestrator, which is available from IBM Cloud, allows customers to maintain visibility and control over who has access to their critical data while executing workloads across hybrid or multi-cloud cloud environments.
Furthermore, enterprises can create and revoke keys for their data across multiple clouds using a single, secure, cloud-based view of an organisation’s crypto keys. At the same time, according to IBM, organizations no longer need to rely on security experts with specialised knowledge of individual cloud to execute security operations.
Since the average organization uses more than eight or nine cloud environments, they risk being more vulnerable to malicious threats that can compromise data, according to IBM. Managing multiple clouds necessitates using multiple cryptographic keys in multiple key management services.
IBM claims that with Unified Key Orchestrator, customers have a single point of control for multiple keys in multiple clouds, as well as safe backup of all keys.
In a statement, Frank Dickson, Vice President of Security and Trust at IDC, said that by making it possible to securely manage encryption keys with a single point of control – including across other public clouds – IBM is proving that what it cares about most is clients and what truly keeps them up at night, not where their data is stored.
“Unified Key Orchestrator also eases the management burden which is aggravated by the security talent shortage by making it possible for businesses to demonstrate compliance across multiple cloud platforms – which can be incredibly complex – faster and easier,” he said.