OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) TC

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SaaS encryption best practices

  • 1.  SaaS encryption best practices

    Posted 09-12-2012 12:32
    Hi folks New member to OASIS and KMIP here.. :-) By way of introduction I was wondering if KMIP and associated technologies might be relevant to some best practices I am currently developing. To help encourage more Cloud adoption by governments, I  am currently building a Cloud Maturity Model for RFPs ( cloudrfp.info ), and one of the sections is on SaaS encryption.  The type of assessment criteria I'm looking to define are: * Ability to allow the creation of unique encryption keys per tenant?  * Ability to support tenant-generated encryption keys or tenant-encrypted data to an identity without access to a public key certificate (e.g. Identity based encryption). * Ability to encrypt tenant data at rest (on disk/storage). * Ability to manage encryption keys on behalf of tenants. * Ability to maintain key management procedures.  Any inputs appreciated,   Kind regards, --  Neil McEvoy CEO, CloudBestPractices.net VP Open Cloud Ecosystem iFOSSF.org