" The company, which makes the CryptoStor KeyVault appliance, is adopting the use of the RSA PKCS#11 API. The API specifies how devices hold cryptographic information and perform cryptographic functions. NeoScales is also proposing that storage security vendors such as itself, Decru Inc., Vormetric Inc. and CipherMax Inc. form a global key management services network that will allow the interoperability of their key management systems via standard protocols."

" The key management service network will connect multiple key managers and encryption endpoints such as tape, disk devices and backup applications to protect the data on these diverse devices. Key managers and encryption endpoints would communicate using standard protocols to deliver unified multivendor key management services."

" "Making heterogeneous global key management a service makes sense in the same way that common domain name services or RADIUS authentication services make sense," says Greg Schulz, senior analyst for StorageIO. "Over time, for storage security to really flourish and become part of a much larger ecosystem, security services including key management needs to be readily accessible.""

" Other efforts to provide interoperability between key encryption systems exist. Sun Microsystems Inc., for example, proposed to the IETF the use of its SunScreen Simple Key Management for Internet Protocol (SKIP) technology. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) also was responsible for FIPS 140-2, which defines key management and transport."

" Getting other industry players such as Decru, Vormetric and Ciphermax to cooperate over which standard protocols are sufficient to protect all storage data may be a large task."

" While NeoScale, Decru and Ciphermax are working closely with industry-standards organizations such as the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA's) Storage Security Industry Forum and the IEEE P1619.3 committee to drive standards for key management interoperability, there is no agreement on standard protocols to use for key management interoperability."

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