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CRYPTOGRAPHY · FINANCIAL SECURITY GLOSSARY

Key Management

The lifecycle controls used to generate, store, distribute, rotate, revoke and destroy cryptographic keys.

QUICK DEFINITION

Key Management — The lifecycle controls used to generate, store, distribute, rotate, revoke and destroy cryptographic keys.

WHY IT MATTERS

Why Key Management matters in finance

Security depends not only on algorithms but on protecting keys throughout their lifetime.

FINANCIAL SYSTEM CONTEXT

Security is also a market-infrastructure question

In financial services, key management should be understood in relation to operational continuity, data integrity, payments, market infrastructure and interconnected dependencies. A control can be technically effective while still leaving material resilience risk if critical services cannot continue or recover during disruption.

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