KeyControl

Entrust (having acquired HyTrust) is a massive, deeply entrenched global security titan, and its KeyControl platform is renowned as one of the absolute most robust, battle-tested, and highly specialized key management systems for virtualized environments and massive private clouds. While some platforms focus on cloud-native DevOps, KeyControl built its massive enterprise footprint by providing unparalleled, flawless integration with VMware vSphere and massive hyper-converged infrastructure deployments. The absolute core superpower of Entrust KeyControl is its dominance in Virtual Machine (VM) encryption. In a massive VMware data center, an entire server (including the OS and the database) is just a massive digital file. If a hacker steals that file, they own the server. KeyControl acts as the central KMS for VMware, seamlessly encrypting thousands of virtual machines at rest. Crucially, it manages this at massive scale; a hospital IT admin can spin up a new encrypted virtual server in seconds, and KeyControl automatically provisions, manages, and highly secures the encryption keys behind the scenes. Beyond virtualization, KeyControl serves as a highly robust, universally compatible KMIP server, capable of serving keys to massive storage arrays (NetApp, Dell EMC) and databases (SQL, Oracle). It is designed for incredibly high availability, operating in active-active clusters across multiple global data centers to ensure that a localized hardware failure never results in data being locked in an encrypted state. For massive enterprises heavily invested in VMware and on-premise/hybrid private clouds, Entrust KeyControl is foundational infrastructure.