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New Key Management System offers major savings for X-Kryptor users

Users of Barron McCann's secure remote access suite, X-Kryptor, can now enjoy the benefits of secure remote deployment of replacement key material in a drastically simplified process which requires no user intervention and is likely to see significant savings of up to 70% in terms of whole life costs.

X-Kryptor's new Key Management System (KMS) has been designed to give system administrators and managed service providers the ability to automatically manage all facets of key material deployment to remote locations - from renewal, right through to revocation, making it easy to re-key any X-Kryptor gateway or client, with no compromise in security.

Previously, users were required to return their computer equipment to a central point to facilitate the installation of new key material - a particularly difficult procedure for remote or overseas users. Barron McCann's new key management application can now completely automate this process without the user's computer equipment leaving its location.

X-Kryptor's new KMS allows both control of who and what receives new key material and when. This is achieved by both the X-Kryptor device and the Key Management Application (KMA) passing and checking several predefined device and user constants designed to ensure that registration, reception and subsequent updating of new key material is 100% secure and reliable at all times.

"X-Kryptor's new Key Management System will deliver a huge benefit for anyone in, or servicing, the public sector who is required to issue and maintain the annual X-Kryptor key material", commented Barron McCann's Head of Technical Services Martin McDonald. "The ability to allow remote deployment of key material to government departments or remote workers in a way that causes minimal disruption to the user community itself will play a significant role in securing data and machine integrity for all users", he added.

The Key Management Application itself is a Microsoft Windows application, typically installed on a Windows 2000 or 2003 server platform, which maintains an SQL database for all X-Kryptor devices. Key material for X-Kryptor is generated and issued via the United Kingdom Key Production Authority and typically must be replaced every 12 months