CrystalKey 360 vs SAP Data Custodian Key Management Service

CrystalKey 360 is an API-based control layer for managing cryptographic policy and automating key lifecycles across hybrid environments. It supports governance of ownership, approvals, and evidence, and automates key rotation through API integrations. Native data-protection capabilities include tokenization, MACing, data masking, code signing, database encryption, encryption, and decryption. Logging across supported environments is intended to improve visibility, accountability, and evidence collection. The product is designed to work alongside existing cryptographic infrastructure, with integrations listed for HSMs from Thales, Utimaco, Entrust, and Futurex, as well as AWS, Azure, GCP, other cloud platforms, and supported key stores. Identified use cases include cryptographic estate consolidation, shared trust infrastructure, payment-key management, and preparation for algorithm transitions and key migration. It supports AES, 3DES, RSA, EC, and HMAC keys, with external key control through BYOK. Platforms include API, Linux, self-hosted, web, and Windows. Pricing is on request; prospective customers can request a demo or use-case discussion.

SAP Data Custodian Key Management Service is a cloud service accessed through the web for managing cryptographic keys. It supports three listed key types: AES, RSA, and ECC. Automated key rotation changes keys according to the service’s rotation capability, while key audit logs provide records of key-related activity. The service supports external key control and also lists a combined external-and-other control option, giving organizations more than one way to handle control of keys. Its deployment model is cloud, and its platform is web. SAP sells the service on a paid basis. Pricing is available on request, and no free plan is listed. Organizations can use the service as a web-based cloud option when AES, RSA, or ECC management, rotation, control choices, and audit logging are requirements.