electronic key management system (EKMS)

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EKMS

CNSSI 4009-2015

Definitions:

An interoperable collection of systems that automate the planning, ordering, generating, distributing, storing, filling, using, and destroying of electronic key and management of other types of COMSEC material. See key management infrastructure (KMI).
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015 from CNSSI 4005

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