Insights that help security teams make better decisions.

Compare AWS External Key Store (XKS) with native AWS KMS customer managed keys: who holds key material, what Amazon can decrypt, and when XKS fits.

Compare Microsoft 365 Double Key Encryption (DKE) and Customer Key: who holds the keys, what Microsoft can decrypt, and when each model fits your programme.

A close reading of FINMA Guidance 05/2026: the survey of 60 institutions, the five recommendations, and a three-phase work plan with board deliverables for mid-2027.

How Snowflake Tri-Secret Secure works, how to register and activate a CMK, what revocation does, and how DuoKey XKS keeps your key outside AWS.

Move the Oracle TDE master key off the database host with an HSM-type PKCS#11 keystore: setup, rekey, auto-login, CDB/PDB notes and ORA- error fixes.

TDE with EKM encrypts SQL Server files and backups; Always Encrypted hides columns from the engine. Threat models, limits and external key setup compared.

Replace manual Shamir unsealing with OpenBao's PKCS#11 seal backed by DuoKey: seal options compared, Cockpit setup, seal stanza, init and troubleshooting.

Unlike the UK's guidance-led approach or the UAE's four-way sector split, Saudi Arabia's cryptography obligation converges on one authority, the NCA, and one technical document already naming algorithms and key lengths, with a post-quantum update in draft.

OpenBAO is the Linux Foundation fork of Vault with 100% API compatibility. MPL 2.0 instead of BSL 1.1, MPC auto-unseal without extra HSM hardware, EU-hosted managed service from an OpenBAO co-maintainer. Free migration assessment.