Leadership Compass: Enterprise Key and Certificate Management - 70961

Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) is made up of two niche markets that are converging. This process still continues, and as with all major change of IT market segments, is driven by customer requirements. These customer requirements are driven by security and compliance needs. Up until recent times, compliance has been the bigger driver, but increasingly in the days of Cloud and mobile technology security of data in storage; data in the hands of others that is, security requirements have been brought to the fore.

The constituent parts of EKCM are Enterprise Key Management (EKM) and Enterprise Certificate Management (ECM).