Many challenges come with the end of the support date of a product for the customers. Below are the few common challenges:

• Customers’ existing products may be out of compliance with regulatory mandates.
• In the absence of security updates and patches, the customer might face increasing exposure to threats and risks, mainly targeting the unsupported Keysecure/DSM platform.
• Developing a fruitful migration plan from the legacy product (Keysecure/DSM) to the advanced product (CTM).

Following are the high-level steps that Encryption Consulting will take to migrate from Gemalto SafeNet KeySecure or Vormetric DSM to Cipher Trust Manager:

• Get the key stakeholders involved to understand and gather details on the current environment (using KeySeccure and Vormetric DSM), including recent product versions, existing use cases, etc.
• Help customers developing the migration strategy, which includes the following approach at a high-level
  • Survey current customer use cases supported by the KeySecure/DSM portfolio.
  • Determine the number of physical/virtual appliances, HA groups, licenses in place, etc., on the deployed solution.
  • Determine the compatibility matrix of the existing appliances/applications with the desired version of Cipher Trust Manager (CTM).
  • Determine the migration timeline for the number of applications that need to be migrated from KeySecure/DSM to Cipher Trust Manager
  • Consider the impact of additional use cases being planned as part of the existing or proposed environment (e.g., customer planning to migrate to the cloud or undertake new use cases with the current solution).
  • Pick identified use cases from the customer and set up a lab environment to replicate the use cases.
  • Support customers replicate the same in their production/non-production environment.
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• Assist customers in migrating from the current solution (KeySecure/DSM) to the Cipher Trust Manager (CTM).
• Develop a runbook of the migration process and review the same with the primary stakeholders.

Below are a few of the benefits of migrating KeySecure/DSM to Cipher Trust Manager

• Moving data to the Thales Cipher Trust Manager (CTM) will ensure that it meets the data protection space’s compliance and regulatory requirements.
• The encryption Consulting team offers expertise in the data protection space such as encryption, tokenization, etc.
• CTM will provide enhanced data protection capabilities.