CONTEXTUAL KEY MANAGEMENT FOR DATA ENCRYPTION

Example methods , apparatus , systems and articles of manu
facture ( e.g. , physical storage media ) to implement contex
tual key management for data encryption are disclosed .
Example apparatus disclosed herein to perform contextual
encryption key management , which are also referred to
herein as contextual key managers , include an example
context discoverer to discover context information associ
ated with a request to access first encrypted data . Such
disclosed example apparatus also include an example con
textual key mapper to identify a combination of context
rules associated with a key that is to provide access to the
first encrypted data , validate the context information asso
ciated with the request based on the combination of context
rules associated with the key to determine whether the
request to access the first encrypted data is valid , and obtain
the key from a key management service when the request to
access the first encrypted data is valid .