Enterprise Key Management
Key management is the entire process of managing the cryptographic keys in a conventional cryptosystem. The process comprises activities like producing, sharing, storing, using, and exchanging keys in the desired way at a user level. The encryption process is a development aimed at offering enough protection of the information for all sizes of companies to ensure that they use to keep hold of sensitive data. Schütz et al. (2017) noted that the key management system aims at providing adequate security for the cryptosystem by using key servers, user procedures, and various protocols and system designs. Therefore the enterprise key management creates a framework that guides the protection of information and preserves its confidentiality, integrity, availability, accessibility, and authentication of the source. Key management provides opportunities for many organizations to establish a standardized key management policy that can be rolled out across all levels of the organization (Schütz et al., 2017). Key management will be vital in the case where the Superior Health Care (SHC) focuses on implementing modern electronic protected health information (e-PHI). The process will require a collaborative approach from all stakeholders to ensure that the enterprise key management system is upgraded entirely to allow for a successful migration.
Purpose
The study has the sole purpose of creating adequate documentation for an enterprise key management procedure that identifies the various critical components, present solutions, and how they compare to each other, risks and benefits, and the risks associated with the migration process of the Superior Health Care. The proposed plan creates enough guidance to realize the successful design and implementation of the Enterprise Key Management (EKM) procedures that ensures that SHC attains its goal of creating a modernized information system. Therefore, the paper will create a well-coordinated plan that explains the key components, implementation process, operation, maintenance activities, and the benefits and risks of the entire process.
KEY COMPONENTS
The key components in an organization’s architecture have to be systematically identified to ensure that the plan is inclusive of all aspects and improve the success rate during the process of modernizing it. SHC accommodates a cloud-based mechanism of authentication, which ensures that there is access to various network resources hence making it a multi-location WAN. SHC has the capacity to offer remote access to information by using different operating systems and network gadgets. It ensures that each business unit access critical information that boosts its overall requirements and provides information security during the distribution process. Every business unit undertakes different functions from others hence possessing different IT needs that come with vulnerabilities. The main business functions within the SHC can be grouped as finance, management, medical, and administration. The management is a vital function that is significantly unique from others because it focuses on the planning and operations of the enterprise daily and in terms of future and long-term growth. The administration component is tasked with creating sanity within the organization by ensuring the human resources, payroll, IT process, and job scheduling are entirely functional. The administration focuses on ensuring that the daily procedures are actualized appropriately.
On the other hand, the finance department ensures that the logistical and financial duties within the enterprise are undertaken through budgeting, billing, debt collections, placing orders, and successful procurement procedures. The clinical business aspect is the enterprise’s main aspect because it focuses on the core activities of dealing with patients to ensure service delivery is of high quality. Figure 1 gives a detailed overview of the critical components in Superior Health Care, indicating how information is distributed across all functions of the organization.