Key Management Systems (KMS)
The latest news and insights about Key Management Systems (KMS).
A Key Management System (KMS) or cryptographic key management system (CKMS) is used for generating, distributing and managing cryptographic keys.
Today, Blockdaemon is proud to announce the acquisition of Sepior, a leading data and digital asset security company focused on institutional-grade cryptographic key management and protection.
This marks the fourth acquisition in Blockdaemon’s portfolio to-date. It follows the successful onboarding of three innovative companies within two years, including Gem, Anyblock Analytics and Lunie.
In 2016, I wrote this blog on Lack of Trust in Big Brother. Since then, the U.S. Government created the Clarifying Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act), which introduces direct conflicts with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). While enterprise migration to the cloud has progressed quite extensively over the past five years, many companies continue to wrestle with how to maintain compliance with these potentially conflicting laws. Fortunately, improvements in key management to support Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) services can mitigate those conflicts for easy and compliant cloud migration.
Security professionals are tasked with protecting assets and services, maintaining compliance, and doing so cost-effectively. Clearly, this is a challenging task. The March 12, 2021 ruling by the Conseil d’Etat – France’s highest administrative court – is a perfect example of the balancing act that must be achieved. Fortunately, solutions exist to make this balancing act more manageable.
Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) is a technology that is gaining widespread interest for both data privacy and protection applications. This article focuses on the use of secure MPC to protect cryptographic keys used for practical enterprise key management applications.
Historically, key management is complex, inflexible, and expensive. Enterprises need key management solutions that …
Instars, the pioneering decentralized and privacy-focused social networking platform, has integrated Sepior’s multiparty computation (MPC) key management to secure digital assets for the Instar Blockchain. Instars.com is the first social networking platform to use a combination of blockchain technology and secure MPC to provide innovative new social networking and personal data exchange services.
Nations globally are under immense pressure to contain and suppress the spread of COVID-19. One of the resources required is an effective tool for tracking infected individuals, identifying other parties they’ve been in proximity with, and contacting them. Naturally, this exercise brings up the difficult balance between privacy and public safety.
After several months of cultivating the idea, socializing with others, and working closely with other developers and practitioners of multiparty computation (MPC) solutions, Sepior is proud to co-found the MPC Alliance. Sepior initiated this effort because of our unwavering belief that MPC will profoundly improve the security, privacy, and innovation of online services.
If the above sounds interesting and compelling to you and your company, we invite you to contact us through the MPC Alliance website to learn more and to join our cause.
A recent survey of the nearly 300,000 professionals who are members of Linkedin’s Information Security Group showed that more than 90% of them have moderate or high levels of anxiety over the security of their data resident in public cloud services.
This is a story about how I came to wish for a pure-cloud Key Management System (KMS), delivered in the form of a SaaS offering, for the strong encryption of unstructured data. In other words, a true Key Management as a Service (KMaaS) that could be decoupled entirely from expensive conventional Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances, deliver cryptographic security (rather than password or trust based), and yet, scale at cloud economics.