For many organizations, the business drivers for securing stored data are becoming obvious: high-profile security breaches, identity theft, brand damage, regulatory penalties, and increased legal liability have all underscored the importance of securing large data repositories. As organizations acknowledge their increasing vulnerability to data theft, and the potential costs, they are turning to encryption as a way to lock down sensitive information. NEXT PARA PLEASE: Decru, the leader in the storage security market, has broken new ground in storage key management since 2003 when Lifetime Key Management™ software was released. Now, with the release of Lifetime Key Management™ Appliance, we are further advancing the state of the art for key management systems. With support from leading 3rd party encryption vendors, increasing scalability, performance and high availability, and by integrating management capabilities for enterprise DataFort® encryption devices, LKM apliances will meet your requirements for storage security key management now and in the future.