Advantages of the present disclosure include, but are not limited to, improving the security of cryptographic items stored by a key management system. By requiring quorum approval before sensitive operations are performed by the key management system, a malicious administrator is unable to unilaterally perform sensitive operations that may compromise the security of the cryptographic items. Thus, the utilization of a quorum approval results in an enhanced security for cryptographic items of the key management system since multiple approvals are required before sensitive operations are performed by the key management system.