A Cost-Effective Encryption Strategy Starts With Key Management

A talk by Karen Reinhardt at RSA Conference outlines five key lessons for enterprise key management: ensure decryption-key availability with controlled archives; balance “encrypt everything” against cost and performance; address cloud-driven key sprawl through centralized management; simplify legacy integration with modern services and HSMs; and prepare for the post-quantum era by inventorying, rotating, and ultimately replacing all asymmetric keys—leveraging centralized key management to streamline discovery and lifecycle operations.