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Review: Enterprise Key Management Software: Page 6 of 9

Unlike most rival offerings, the keyAuthority system doesn't offer database capabilities for storing and archiving key information, so an installation requires a host system with a Microsoft SQL or Oracle ODBC client.

The combination of nCipher's keyAuthority system and HSM devices can support a wide variety of Web, e-mail, e-commerce and network applications, and the products also provide support for several common security APIs, including RSA's PKCS#11, CSP for Microsoft CryptoAPI, Java JCA/JCE CSP and OpenSSL. Although not as elegant a solution as the appliances from NeoScale and Decru, the keyAuthority system can scale to service thousands of distributed endpoints and can run on a wide variety of hardware platforms that support Windows.

Neoscale Cryptostor Keyvault

NeoScale offers a full line of storage encryption appliances, the CryptoStor FC Disk and CryptoStor SAN VPN for data in flight, the CryptoStor Tape for D2D and tape applications, and the CryptoStor KeyVault.

Targeted at data at rest, the CryptoStor KeyVault appliance is a rackable 2U system designed to provide enterprise-class key management. It offers a high level of scalability for environments looking to extend unified key management across multiple storage systems or locations.