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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

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

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

Ability to manage key archival from EKMF-Web and carry the attribute forward to the CKDS

Today EKMF-Web does not support key archival where ICSF does. As our key management platform we would like to initiate/manage key archival from EKMF-Web and have the metadata updated on the CKDS when archival is performed. It would also make sense...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Future consideration