StrongAuth, Inc. , the creators of StrongKeyTM the first open-source Symmetric Key Management System (SKMS), has submitted a new version of the Symmetric Key Services Markup Language (SKSML) to the OASIS Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) Technical Committee.

Encryption of data is the last bastion of defense.

Since the dawn of computing, operating systems and applications have used many schemes to identify and authenticate entities accessing resources within computers. While the technologies and schemes have varied, there appears to have been little attempt to classify them based on their ability to resist attacks from unauthorized entities.

Encryption of data is fast becoming the last bastion of defense.

As the internet continues to become more hostile and Information Technology infrastructure comes under contractual and government regulation (RIPA, PCI-DSS, PCSA, HIPAA, FISMA), SOA-based applications will need to address issues of data security, privacy and accessibility in better ways than traditional architectures have dealt with them.