Enterprises should ensure strict access control and separation of duties. “Only a small, vetted group such as security operations, endpoint engineering, should have rights to view or export recovery keys. Approvals should be workflow-based, not ad hoc. Every key retrieval should leave an auditable, immutable trail, and ideally be tied to an incident or ticket ID,” said Jaju.
CISOs should also ensure that when devices are repurposed, decommissioned, or moved across jurisdictions, keys should be regenerated as part of the workflow to ensure old keys cannot be used.
Gogia warned of the long tail of insecure setups. Personal accounts linked during provisioning, or BYOD devices that silently sync keys to consumer dashboards, are invisible pathways for leakage. “If those keys sit outside your boundary, you no longer have a clean chain of custody. That’s not a theoretical risk. It’s something auditors are now actively checking,” he said.
