The Challenge

With the increase for the need to encrypt highly sensitive information, encryption keys become more prevalent and hence difficult to manage, secure and organize. These encryption keys are commonly embedded in applications which could lead to the misuse of the keys which includes data tampering, leakage and eventually to financial losses.

Some common security challenges organizations face starts from the following:

Figure 1: Security Challenges

This, in turn, leads to some business challenges as highlighted below:

1. Increases operational overhead

• System’s stability due to code modifications
• Long maintenance downtimes
• Complex distribution of new keys

2. Risk of disabling LOB applications

The Solution

The solution addresses and solves the security, audit and manageability challenges involved in application passwords embedded in application code, scripts or configuration files. This is accomplished with a secure repository for all application passwords where passwords can be managed and usages of these passwords are logged centrally.

Figure 2: Central Secure Repository