Editing Key management (section)

====KMS security policy====
The security policy of a key management system provides the rules that are to be used to protect keys and metadata that the key management system supports. As defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology [[NIST]], the policy shall establish and specify rules for this information that will protect its:<ref name="Reinholm-KeyManagementCompliance" />
* Confidentiality
* Integrity
* Availability
* Authentication of source<ref name="NIST-KeyManagementSystems">{{cite web|last1=Barker|first1=Elaine|last2=Smid|first2=Miles|last3=Branstad|first3=Dennis|last4=Chokhani|first4=Santosh|title=NIST Special Publication 800 -130: A Framework for Designing Cryptographic Key Management Systems|url=http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-130.pdf|publisher=National Institute of Standards and Technology|access-date=30 May 2016}}</ref>

This protection covers the complete key life-cycle from the time the key becomes operational to its elimination.<ref name="Turner-What-is-key-management" />