BANGALORE, INDIA: Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks division today announced the launch of the HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager that reduces the risk of a costly data breach and reputation damage while improving regulatory compliance with a secure centralized encryption key management solution for HP enterprise tape libraries.

Designed expressly for the business continuity and IT needs of businesses, the new HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager automates key generation and management based on security policies for multiple libraries. The Secure Key Manager is a hardened server appliance delivering secure identity-based access, administration and logging with strong auditable security designed to meet the rigorous FIPS 140-2 security standards.

Additionally, the Secure Key Manager provides reliable lifetime key archival with automatic multi-site key replication, high availability clustering and failover capabilities.

Secure Key Manager is the first step to offer a centralized encryption key management services that span across storage, servers, application and network domains in the enterprise.

The HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager consolidates key management for encryption devices deployed in enterprise and mid-sized businesses. Security is improved by providing a single control point across the data center.