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EKMF Web

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Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting

Add Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting functionality to EKMF. This will help to remove the need for a manual key inventory that organisations often manage in spreadsheets and to automate the maintenance and reporting operations, thereby removi...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 2 Future consideration

Provide AT-TLS Support for EKMF Web

A recent pen test by IBM XForce performed on our z/OS systems identified a vulnerability where the TCP port used by EKMF was not using https. In attempting to remediate this condition it was discovered that secure https browser access to EKMF-Web ...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 3 Functionality already exists

QRadar/SIEM integration

EKMF Web must generate security related events that can be consumed by IBM QRadar similar third-party SIEM systems. At minimum, these events must include- Logons, both success and failure- logoffs, when performed by a user, logoffs due to timout m...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Future consideration

EKMF Web should support the ability to import CIPHER keys from an existing CKDS.

Given that CIPHER keys are the recommended key type for DSE, EKMF Web should fully support the ability to import these keys when they have been previously defined in a keystore.
12 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 2 Future consideration

support DB2 LUW as key repository for EKMFWEB

We have z/OS customers interested in pervasive encryption that do not run DB2 on z/OS. Currently only official support exists for DB2 z/OS as key repository. As the EKMFWEB product supports jdbc2 type 2 and type 4 it could target a DB2 LUW running...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Planned for future release

Improve Dataset Scanner to use SMF42 records

Today the dataset scanner uses the catalog search interface to record the encryption status of datasets. By the time we actually run the scanner, there have been many thousands of datasets that no longer reside on disk. In our shop we have many th...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Future consideration

Support specifying key ring owner in configuration

The ablility to use a site certificate and Keyring that has an owner other then the owner running the started task on mainframe. EX: SITEID/Keyringname instead of EKMFweb/Keyringname Sites that run mulitple web servers can use a single Keyring and...
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

EKMF Web Audit Log filter not working correctly - Deutsche Bundesbank

Deutsche Bundesbank customer noticed during workshop that the EKMF Web Audit Log filtering tool wasn't working as expected. When searching a specific key label, it outputted everything.
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 3 Functionality already exists

Add functionality to remove/delete keys in PRE_ACTIVATION STATE

Request to add the functionalty that will enable the removal/deletion of keys that are still in pre_actiovation mode. 1. Adding this functionality will allow completely removing the key in pre_actiovation state from the database and allow key leb...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Planned for future release

EKMF Web integration to Salesforce Cache-Only Key Service

Enable the feature to manage Salesforce Cache-Only Key Service
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Planned for future release