Box Enterprise Key Management in our data-driven age.

As security remains a major barrier to cloud adoption for industries that require the highest levels of protection over their information, it is encouraging to see that, a set of digital actors work in real-time to allow businesses and organizations to maintain inter alia: exclusive control over their encryption keys. 

Box with Box Enterprise Key Management (EKM) paves its way within this dynamic, by enabling the encouraging levels of control around enterprise content without sacrificing the ease of use and powerful collaboration features of the Box platform.

In fact, Box is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Gemalto to deliver Box EKM. 

Box, in close collaboration with AWS and Gemalto, aims to provide a reliable and protected key infrastructure via a dedicated AWS CloudHSM appliance in the cloud, and leverages Gemalto’s state-of-the-art tamper resistant SafeNet Hardware Security Modules (HSM) for key encryption and protection. 

According to Box, ‘’Customers retain full control of their keys and cryptographic operations on the HSM, while Amazon manages and maintains the hardware, with neither Box nor Amazon having access to the keys. This advanced encryption feature set is all available while preserving the hallmark functionality of Box’s core service’’.

Box EKM is available in beta and will be generally available Spring 2015.