Cryptographic Key Management
What is Cryptographic Key Management?
The administration of cryptographic keys throughout their lifecycle including generation, distribution, storage, rotation, revocation, and destruction.
Terms that appear alongside cryptographic key management
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as cryptographic key management. The number is how many controls name both.
- key management 11 shared controls
- encryption 4 shared controls
- audit 4 shared controls
- iso 27001 3 shared controls
- nist 3 shared controls
- authentication 3 shared controls
- authorization 3 shared controls
- consent 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern cryptographic key management
What the standards actually require on cryptographic key management
Requirements naming cryptographic key management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Cryptographic key management processes, and supporting cryptographic key management procedures, are developed, implemented and maintained.
ISM-0507 · Cryptographic key management processes, and supporting cryptographic key management proced →Document and implement an enterprise cryptographic key management standard covering the key lifecycle, with keys generated, distributed and stored in a secured key vault service and rotated on a defined schedule.
ASBv3-DP-6 · Use a secure key management process →HL7 FHIR Audit + Provenance + Digital Signatures. AUDITEVENT LOGGING (FHIR-SEC-07 + FHIR-SEC-4.1) - FHIR AuditEvent Resource for structured audit logging + IETF RFC 3881 + IHE ATNA + DICOM Audit + comprehensive audit trail of: (a) authentication events;
HL7-FHIR-Audit-Provenance-DigitalSignatures-Integrity · HL7 FHIR Audit + Provenance + Digital Signatures + AuditEvent Resource + Audit Log Integrity + Retention →Section 9.4 of IRS Publication 1075 establishes specific requirements for cloud services and addresses the prohibition on offshore processing of FTI.
IRSPub1075-Section94-Cloud-FedRAMP-Offshore-Prohibition-CSP-USRegion-PrivateGovCloud-AzureGov-AWSGov · IRS Pub 1075 Section 9.4 + Cloud Services + FedRAMP Authorisation Required + Offshore Prohibition + AWS GovCloud + Azure Government + Oracle US Federal + Google Workspace Federal + US-Region Data Residency →ITU coordinates radiocommunication + telecommunication standardization + and development across its three sectors with significant cross-sector cybersecurity work.
ITU-Cybersecurity-Space-Systems-Coord-ITU-T-X-Series-X.805-X.1500-ITU-D-WSIS-CIRT-Outer-Space-Treaty · ITU Cybersecurity of Space Systems + ITU-T X-Series (X.805 + X.1500 + X.1205) + Sector Coordination + ITU-D Development + WSIS + GCI Global Cybersecurity Index + CIRT National Computer Incident Response Teams + Multi-Sector ITU-R/T/D →RBI AA Framework imposes strict IT and data protection controls reflecting the elevated trust and sensitivity of consolidating financial information.
RBI-AA-IT-DataProtection-Transience-NoStorage-E2EE-DataLocalisation-IS-PolicyFramework · RBI AA IT + Data Protection - Data Transience + No Storage at AA + End-to-End Encryption + Data Localisation in India + Information Security Policy + RBI IT Framework for NBFC-AA →Questions people ask about cryptographic key management
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