Secure Key Management- An important risk carrier
Author : Arindam Bhattacharya Password and key management are the 2 most important element of data security. As businesses have gained more reliance on data, the data stakeholders along with other application agents, both are slowly developing extended risks. While password weakness can impact the entire business services, weak key management can push towards major data breaches. As of now both are going by the standard technology and processes but there are unknown factors that may cause secure status to marginal. While data stakeholders are nothing but the business and application users, residents are the application agents (please read as module responsible for authentication and authorization) those are native or integrated with the application. These residents can bring unprecedented risks by the way they are developed or integrated. Keylogging can happen anywhere - especially in a software driven ecosystem and it's becoming an open secret. As a user, one may develop "