Key Management Tasks
After a successful registration, the Key Management Tasks List is shown as the main page. To navigate to the Key Management Task List, click on the Key Management button located on the bottom of the Securosys Authorization App.
When a key management approval task is pending in the Key Management Task List, the button will show the amount of pending tasks for authorization.
The key management tasks are performed by an Approver with key management policy enabled.
Key Management Task List
The Key Management Task List shows a list of pending key management approval tasks to be authorized by the Approver. These tasks include:
- Block Approval (Fraudulent transaction prevention, revocation, access control key block)
- Unblock Approval (restoring suspended operations, unblocking data access key)
- Modify Approval (Key-Policy modification)
When an approval task is fetched, it is shown in the key management task list.
Click on the a task to proceed to the Key Management Task Menu.
Key Management Task Menu
When opening the desired key management task the META DATA tab will open at first. On the task menu there are two different tabs, META DATA and DETAILS. You can leave the task menu by clicking the button in the top right.
Metadata Tab
The META DATA tab shows the metadata which was added to the key management task. The metadata can be configured to include many things. In our example this is the application name and the cores. If no metadata is provided with the task, the tab will be grayed out.
Pressing on the META DATA tab opens a window if a signature was provided with it. If no signature provided a window stating No signature provided will open. Press anywhere to close the window.
Details Tab
Clicking on the DETAILS tab will show the details provided with the operation task. Depending on the detail level, details about the operation task are shown. By default the Standard setting is chosen and will show the details such as unblockKeyName
and more.
If the With Key Attributes
detail level setting is enabled, the key in the key management task details, will have a button present. Clicking the
button will open the Key Attributes of the key used for the task Clicking in
xml
format. Please see Key Attributes for more information.
The detail level can be configured in the settings menu of the Securosys Authorization App.
Approve or Cancel
After reviewing the Metadata and the Details of the key management task the Approver can choose to either Approve or Cancel the key management task. To do so follow the next steps:
- Click on the
button to approve the operational task or on the
button to cancel it.
- After clicking on either button a confirmation window will open to confirm with the Approver of the choice.
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Select Yes to confirm or No to cancel the approval or denial of the key management task.
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A successful approval or denial the App will prompt the Approver with a notification.
Refresh or Fetch
Tasks are fetched automatically in the background, even if the app is not open. To manually refresh the operational task list, drag down the blank space in the middle of the key management task list. This will prompt a loading process which checks for all approval tasks.