November 20, 2008: Olympia, Washington — Patrick Townsend Security Solutions announced today that it would release its long-anticipated Alliance Key Manager appliance in the 1st quarter of 2009. This new key management solution is being developed by a leader in encryption technology, and will provide Enterprise customers, VARs and ISVs an affordable solution for creating, managing, and storing symmetric encryption keys.
Alliance Key Manager deploys on a reliable appliance server that will work in any data center environment. This full function — yet aggressively low priced — solution will prove ideal for managing increasingly critical key management needs under today's tighter budgetary constraints.
Patrick Townsend, President of Patrick Townsend Security Solutions, said"We’ve worked in data encryption for 10 years, and have seen a growing need for better encryption key management. Alliance Key Manager represents a huge step forward in complete security of sensitive data, and it’s a solution we’ll be proud to offer."
• Compatibility: works with all major business platforms, leading encryption applications, and even works with legacy devices connected via serial port.
• Secure Administration: using an authenticated SSL/TLS connection, administrators can configure, manage, import, export, create, and expire keys manually or automatically. Programmable administration makes easy work of many tedious and time-consuming tasks.
• Redundancy and Mirroring: mirrors keys between multiple key management appliances over a secure and mutually authenticated SSL/TLS connection for hot backup and disaster recovery support.
• Time-Synchronized Log: built in logging allows administrators to track all key retrieval, management and system activity. Send reports automatically to central log management, alerting facilities, or SIM products for a timely and permanent record of activity.
• Scalability: works with any number of connected servers or users — with no built-in limitations or additional charges.
• Multiple Key Formats: keys can be retrieved in three formats including Binary, Base16, and Base64 encoded for applications that cannot receive binary information.
• Turn-Key Security: get a complete solution when paired with our own Alliance AES Encryption (priced separately). Or easily pair it with any other encryption application.
• Fully Supported and Warranted: complete hardware and software support included, with an option for 24/7/365 upgraded support.
The company: Patrick Townsend Security Solutions provides data encryption, key management, and compliance logging solutions to Enterprise customers on a variety of server platforms including Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM System i, and IBM System z. The company can be reached on the web at www.patownsend.com, or at (800) 357-1019.
