Overview

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A Security Breach Is Not the Type of Publicity any Company Wants.

According to the FBI and the Computer Security Institute, 50-80% of all attacks happen from inside company firewalls. Of those companies surveyed, 73% of them reported that they’d experienced some form of internal security breach over the past year.

The Secure Storage Challenge

Every organization today is facing the pressures of increasing regulatory compliance requirements, escalating internal security threats, and expanding storage consolidation needs.

  • Emerging Government Regulations – organizations must ensure the protection of financial, transaction, and personal information against unauthorized disclosure, tampering, or theft.
  • Threat of Internal Security Breaches – organizations must go beyond traditional perimeter defenses, such as firewalls, VPNs, and access control, which do not adequately protect stored data from internal threats.
  • Networked and Distributed Storage Availability – additional layers of storage data protection are required to meet these core business requirements.

Layered Storage Security Model

Enterprises already employ a layered model for network data security. The evolution of networked and distributed storage requires extending these layers of security beyond the traditional network concept to encompass both primary and secondary storage infrastructure. Current storage security features of zoning and LUN masking can be complemented by the addition of data encryption and authentication. The model below depicts how network security layers are being extended to support distributed and networked storage

NeoScale Extends a Layered Security Model

The best storage security solutions for many organizations are storage security appliances, such as NeoScale Systems' CryptoStor®appliances.