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Review: Enterprise Key Management Software: Page 4 of 9

There's no way around it: Global key management is still a relatively immature market. Our research brought us to several vendors that are focused on providing improved key management for their own encryption solutions, but as far as cross-platform capabilities, as we discuss in "Key Overload," you'll need to pressure vendors to publish their key-management APIs for third-party use or wait for an open key-management interface.

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Decru Lifetime Key Management

Decru's Lifetime Key Management (LKM) system is available as an appliance or a server-based Windows application, and is targeted at providing key services for the company's DataFort line of storage encryption systems.

Decru DataFort appliances are available in E-series for NAS and iSCSI, FC-series for Fibre Channel SAN and tape, and S-series for SCSI-based storage. The LKM system is designed to generate, manage and store keys as well as configuration information for all of Decru's LKM-enabled encryption systems.

The software-based LKM product is primarily targeted at smaller installations, but for enterprise-class applications the Decru LKM appliance is designed to support clustering for security and failover, and each LKM can support as many as 100 DataFort appliances and provide storage for upwards of 10 million keys.