Cloud Key Management

The Cloud Key Management Working Group aims to facilitate the standards for seamless integration between CSPs and key broker services. Standardization will take place across key management lifecycle operations and a common set of APIs, enabling consistent implementation of enterprise key policies. Customer-centric in principle, the goal will be for data stored or traversing the cloud and requiring encryption the corresponding encryption keys will be protected and their lifecycle managed by the customer. The purpose of the Cloud Key Management Working Group is to align cloud key management interoperability standards across service providers, maintain and develop API and key interoperability specifications, develop business model templates and specifications for standardized key interoperability, promote the adoption of key management standards and key brokering interoperability, and provide well documented guidelines and a standard approach to vendors to ensure seamless interoperability and compliance to those guidelines/standards.