The Encryption Framework for Enterprises (EFE) is the first and only encryption framework that provides a total enterprise-level encryption-based security solution. Other excellent cryptographic libraries and toolkits exist but fall short of providing critical components for automation, secure key management (KM), standardization and scalability.

The Encryption Framework for Enterprises Developers Kit  contains everything needed to secure any type of application data.

The KM foundation of EFE provides the most robust, low risk and proven capability in the industry today. EFE offers out-of-the-box rapid, repeatable, low risk implementation and reusable tools and modules to encrypt files or database records along with a high throughput, fully functioning, turnkey key server. EFE provides developers with a flexible means to solve and deploy any type of encryption solution, be it from small-scale systems to complex, multi-platform deployments. If your company is planning on deploying encryption solutions, then get your developers the Encryption Framework for Enterprises because it is the only encryption framework they will ever need.  What is driving the demand for Encryption Framework?

1. Due to internal security requirements and/or compliance with government regulations, a growing number of enterprise encryption projects are being scheduled and initiated
2. Number of platforms involved (legacy, messaging, web services, mobile) are increasing and growing more complex
3. Data is being consumed across applications/platforms
4. Most large enterprises/organizations either build solutions in-house or contract out for customized solutions
5. When building encryption solutions, each platform/application requires its own encryption schema which creates stovepipe scenarios and uncertain success
6. Stovepipe applications are hard to support
7. Applications cannot exchange encrypted data
8. Applications cannot grow or transition with future technologies
9. The ultimate cost of support and growth are very high
10. Ad hoc development of encryption schemas have higher chance of being poorly implemented and are either being implemented using open source code, or PKI-based toolkits which cannot scale cross an enterprise
11. The prescribed model of software architecture to support Service Oriented Architecture relies upon Model Driven Architecture*, which cannot be achieved with stovepipe development

Encryption Framework for Enterprises is the Solution

The Encryption Framework for Enterprises provides pre-structured and validated code modules through its Tricryption® Engine Key Management System**, which performs automatic key generation, key integrity checks, authorization and auditing of key usage, key storage and key retrieval.  EFE allows for standardization of encryption solutions through platform and application independence.  EFE provides scalability by automating the fail-over, load balancing and high availability requirements.

EFE provides a flexible development environment that allows for faster encryption solution development without compromising the security of the solution.  EFE provides for code reuse throughout an organization thereby creating a higher return on investment.  EFE allows organizations to evaluate data encryption as part of Service Oriented Architecture for current and future development requirements. 

With the advent of the Tricryption Engine, high-volume encryption and key management effectively becomes a federated infrastructure service that can be shared across all operating system, development and application platforms.

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* The Model Driven Architecture (MDA), as stipulated by the Object Management Group Architecture Board (www.omg.org), defines an approach to IT system specification that separates the specification of system functionality from the specification of the implementation of that functionality on a specific technology platform. The MDA approach and the standards that support it allow the same model specifying system functionality to be realized on multiple platforms. All applications, independent of their context (e.g. for the enterprise or the Internet, or for embedded computing) rely on some or all of a set of essential services. The list varies somewhat depending on the source but typically includes Directory services, Event handling, Persistence, Transactions, and Security. True integration requires a common model for directory services, events and signals, and security. By extending these to a generalized model, which can be implemented in the different environments and easily integrated, the MDA becomes the basis of a goal of universal integration. 

** With its patent-pending automated encryption key management process, the Tricryption Engine is the only key management system that can scale to meet the continually growing encryption requirements companies must implement. As organizations look for methods to protect increasing amounts of electronic data, they need to deploy solutions that will completely prohibit unauthorized users from reading or tampering with protected data, while at the same time remove the constraints of system performance and on-going management.