New Enterprise Key Management Solution to Hit Market in Early 2009

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 symmetric key management solution will provide Enterprise customers, VARs, and ISVs an affordable solution for symmetric encryption key management, creation, and storage.

Alliance Key Manager deploys on a reliable appliance server that will work in the data center environment of any Enterprise. This full function — yet aggressively low priced — symmetric key management solution will prove ideal for managing increasingly critical data encryption needs under today's tighter budgetary constraints.

Patrick Townsend, President of Patrick Townsend Security Solutions, said, “In 10 years of working in data encryption we have seen a growing need for better encryption key management. Alliance Key Manager represents a huge step forward, and it’s a solution we’ll be proud to offer.”

• Compatibility: Alliance Key Manager works with all major business platforms, leading data encryption applications, and even 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 data management tasks.

• Redundancy and Mirroring: Alliance Key Manager mirrors keys between multiple key management appliances over a secure and mutually authenticated SSL/TLS connection for hot backup and disaster recovery support of sensitive encrypted data.

• Time-Synchronized Log: Built in logging allows administrators to track all key retrieval, management, and system activity. Reports can be sent automatically to central log management, alerting facilities, or SIM products for a timely and permanent record of activity.

• Scalability: Alliance Key Manager works with any number of connected servers or users — with no built-in limitations or additional charges.

• Multiple Key Formats: Encryption 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 is included with an option for 24/7/365 upgraded support.

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 http://www.patownsend.com, or at (800) 357-1019.