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Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager

Centralized, secure, scalable. Get streamlined encryption key management for diverse key lifecycle needs.

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IBM® Guardium® Key Lifecycle Manager delivers streamlined encryption key management and enhances security by providing centralized key management for IBM and non-IBM storage solutions, including cloud storage solutions and applications, ensuring seamless integration.

Protect data with a solution for diverse key lifecycle needs

IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager is an encryption key management tool that centralizes, simplifies and automates the key management process. It offers robust and security-rich key storage, key serving and key lifecycle management for self-encrypting applications and solutions by using interoperability protocols, including KMIP, IPP and REST, and interfaces such as PKCS#11. Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager helps clients meet regulations such as PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA by providing access control, key rotation and other automated key lifecycle management processes.

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Benefits Centralized, transparent key management

Provides centralized, simplified and transparent key management through the secure storage of key materials and the serving of keys at the time of use

Simple, secure integration

Offers simple, secure integration with supported protocols, including KMIP, IPP and REST, and interfaces such as PKCS#11

Lower costs

Reduces key management costs by automating the assignment and rotation of keys

Flexible deployment

Offers multiple deployment options, including on bare-metal servers, as a virtual machine or as a container

Features

Simplified key management Secured key management Quick assessment Accelerated implementation
How we price Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager

Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager requires a combination of both software and usage entitlements.

Eligible software license types:

  • GKLM Basic Edition
  • GKLM Container Edition for Distributed Platforms
  • GKLM Container Edition for zCX
     

Eligible usage license types:

  • Resource Value Units based on raw or usable decimal terabytes or petabytes of storage
  • Device-type licenses for certain endpoints (Transparent Data Encryption Databases, VMware and others)
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