The benefits of encrypting data are countless given the cost and damage that a data breach of sensitive data or proprietary corporate intellectual property might carry. Ignoring the encryption of data is no longer an option as legal requirements are proliferating throughout the world forcing the urgency to protect data to maintain compliance. Quantum’s vast experience in backup technology has enabled us to develop an encryption key management solution that is simple, easy to manage and is designed to enable encryption for companies of all sizes.

The Scalar® Key Manager Appliance integrates directly with Quantum’s Scalar tape libraries to provide a simple, centralized security solution designed to work with encryption-enabled LTO drives. It offers high-availability key management that can be integrated simply into existing backup architectures and is built to comply with FIPS 140-2 Level 1, a security standard established by the US Government and adopted widely outside of the United States. The Scalar Key Manager Appliance enables Quantum tape library customers to have a federally certified security solution while maintaining simplicity in the encryption key management process across all tape backup units in the data center and remote locations.

Reduce complexity of encryption key management
Set up, configure and administer the Scalar Key Manager Appliance through the library’s native interface and allow the software to manage the entire encryption key process

Integration with Scalar libraries
The Scalar Key Manager Appliance is integrated with the Scalar tape libraries enabling simplified administration of the encryption key management process

Compliance with security legislation
The Scalar Key Manager Appliance comes standard in an HA configuration for redundancy and is built to comply with the FIPS 140-2 Level 1 standard to support federally defined levels of security

Scalable solution for distributed environments
The Scalar Key Manager Appliance can centrally manage your encryption keys across the data center and remote sites and will scale with ever growing data demands