You're already running Encryptionizer. Now you're running it on a dozen servers, or fifty, or two hundred — and managing keys one box at a time stopped being viable last quarter. Encryption Key Manager (EKM) is the console that pulls your entire Encryptionizer footprint into one place: rotate keys without re-encrypting data, control access by role, keep an audit-ready log of every lifecycle event, and bridge to Azure Key Vault when the enterprise mandates it.
One encrypted database is a configuration. Fifty encrypted databases across production, staging, DR, and branch offices — with keys that need to rotate on a schedule, access that needs to be revoked when staff leave, and an audit trail your compliance team can actually produce — is an operations problem. EKM exists because every Encryptionizer customer eventually reaches the point where per-server key handling stops scaling.
At one or two servers, local key management works. At ten, it's painful. At fifty, it's a job nobody wants. EKM is the inflection-point tool.
Every capability EKM adds was built in response to an operational need Encryptionizer customers surfaced as they scaled. Nothing here is academic.
Manage every Encryptionizer deployment from a single interface. On-prem, virtual, and cloud servers all surface in the same console with the same operational model.
Rotate the keys that protect your data on a schedule or on-demand, without the massive overhead of decrypting and re-encrypting every database. Compliance schedules met, downtime avoided.
Define roles for key administrators, auditors, and operations staff. Grant and revoke access by role, not by server-by-server configuration. When someone leaves, revocation is one action.
Every key event — creation, rotation, access grant, access revocation, usage — is logged centrally with a timestamp and the responsible identity. Auditor asks who did what with which key; you have the answer.
Store and manage keys in Azure Key Vault while Encryptionizer uses them on your servers. Bring Microsoft's cloud-grade KMS to on-prem workloads without rearchitecting.
SQL Server. SQL Express. MySQL. MariaDB. Visual FoxPro. Desktop & App. IIS and Web Server. If it's protected by Encryptionizer, EKM can manage its keys.
Enterprise security policies increasingly mandate cloud HSM-backed key management — even for workloads that run on-prem. EKM's Azure Key Vault integration lets you store keys in Azure's FIPS-validated HSM and use them to protect Encryptionizer-encrypted data on your own servers. One policy. One audit boundary. One answer when the enterprise security team asks where your keys live. No rearchitecting the applications that depend on local encryption.
Learn more →If any of these describe your deployment today, you're already past the point where EKM pays for itself. If they describe where you'll be in twelve months, now is the right time to plan it in.
Operational overhead of per-server key handling is no longer trivial. One console pays for itself in reduced errors alone.
Audit frameworks increasingly require periodic rotation. Doing it manually across many servers is painful; EKM makes it a non-event.
If security policy requires keys in Azure Key Vault, EKM is the bridge between that mandate and your existing Encryptionizer deployments.
Role-based access and immutable audit logs make quarterly access reviews a report, not a project.
When someone with key access leaves, revocation needs to be clean, fast, and documented. EKM makes it one action.
Multi-site, multi-region deployments make per-server key handling untenable. Central management becomes the only sensible option.
Four moments in the life of a scaled Encryptionizer deployment where EKM turns a day of coordination into a few clicks.
Compliance requires rotating encryption keys every quarter across 50 servers. Doing it per-server is a multi-day project with real risk of inconsistency.
A key administrator leaves the company. Their access needs to be revoked on every server they touched, documented, and verified — by end of day.
Enterprise security policy now requires all encryption keys to be stored in Azure Key Vault. Your Encryptionizer deployments live on-prem and in private clouds.
The auditor wants to see every key lifecycle event for the last 12 months, with the identity of the person responsible for each. Scattered server logs make this a weeks-long project.
Modern compliance frameworks don't just require encryption — they require evidence that your keys are managed, rotated, access-controlled, and logged. EKM delivers that evidence as a feature, not a quarterly scramble.
"We started with Encryptionizer on a handful of servers. Three years in we were at eighty. Managing keys per-box had become the single biggest operational headache in the department. EKM gave us one console and a weekend back every quarter."
If you're protecting data with any of these, EKM centralizes the keys that protect it.
Transparent encryption for every edition of SQL Server — one of the most common EKM pairings for enterprise deployments.
Learn More →Transparent encryption for Windows MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona deployments. EKM manages keys across every variant identically.
Learn More →Per-server key management stops working at exactly the point where you need it to work most — when the business is scaling and the audit requirements are tightening. EKM is how you stay ahead of both.