The shine is off directories 10 years later

Thales nShield Connect offers enterprise-class key management; How we tested key management Security: Identity Management Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Double-Take Software Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup Many companies are already backing up their main and branch office systems to tape, but what they don't understand is just how vulnerable their data and their business remains. This video whitepaper explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup. Learn more. Spotlight Story The shine is off directories 10 years later Ten years ago this week we launched the newsletter which, over time, became the one you're reading today. But back in September of 1999, "identity management" wasn't a phrase known to many people. So what Network World launched was called "Fusion Focus on Directory Services." Read full story Related News: Thales nShield Connect offers enterprise-class key management Setting up the nShield to work with a new application involves getting that application to work with one of the supported key management standards, PKCS#11, Microsoft CryptoAPI/CNG, Jave JCE or OpenSSL, or with one of the other supported security protocols. This can often be somewhat complex, as these are not necessarily the native methods for encryption. How we tested key management The Key Management Servers were tested with standard applications on both Windows and Linux environments, using Windows 2008 with the Microsoft Certificate Authority, IIS and SQL Server 2005, and Ubuntu 9.04 with Apache 2.2.12. We tested the products by setting each up to issue keys, revoke and renew keys, monitor for correct operation, create reports and logs of activity, setting policies for issuing keys and revoking them, and looking at the granularity of management capabilities. Encryption made easier with new key management tools In response to dramatic and widely-publicized losses of data over the last few years, IT execs are moving to deploy encryption in every corner of the enterprise. While encryption does reduce the chances of data loss, it can also create a management nightmare, with dozens of different encryption applications using hundreds or thousands of keys. Vormetric's agent-based approach provides strong key management across all apps The Vormetric Data Security Expert Security Server is not a direct competitor to the Thales and Venafi systems. Rather than managing keys used by other certificate authorities or encryption solutions, it manages its own encryption solution across multiple systems. Venafi key management software works smoothly with supported apps Venafi Encryption Director was the easiest of the three products to deploy. 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