A View of the Security Landscape
As of 2005, cyber crime surpassed the profitability of trafficking in illegal drugs. Penalties for data indiscretions are on the rise even as the scope of affected data expands. Check the news and you'll see that regulatory and legal requirements continue to emerge, influencing data protection and data security. Government organizations are turning to commercial networks to conduct business while information/cyber warfare becomes a reality spearheaded by military, political, and criminal adversaries. Just what are the defensive measures that can help keep business, industry, and government data secure? Where does security begin for you? At Hitachi Data Systems it begins with a formidable strategy.
Strategy to Secure Your Stored Data
Hitachi Data Systems offers you storage solutions that enable regulatory compliance, feature-rich data protection, and advanced data security capabilities. We actively leverage our global alliances and partnerships to deliver specialized capabilities and services. Our leadership in standards and industry forums is firmly established.
Uncertainty as to security requirements still exists among many storage companies. Data aggregation, storage consolidation, and new storage technologies, including SAN, NAS, WAFS remote replication, address data availability, but not necessarily access control, integrity, and confidentiality. Security is often all but ignored. But that is not the case among the security specialists at Hitachi Data Systems who offer insight and understanding of both storage and security.
While the value of data rests in its ability to be easily accessed and shared with many users, data owners rarely classify their data, so its existence and criticality are frequently not known. Yet since the implementation of regulatory compliance directives governing records retention, disclosure, and privacy, such as Sarbanes-Oxley in the US, auditors are beginning to focus on IT and on storage. In the past, data/storage related incidents were frequently perpetrated by insiders, either knowingly or accidentally. But today in instances of identity theft, for example, outsiders are the problem.
Much of the challenge of storage security is defining and maintaining the best balance between exposure and cost. That's why Hitachi Data Systems offers solutions that:
- Focus on the important data
- Identify the potential threats
- Map threats into attack points
- Analyze attack points for vulnerabilities and mitigating controls
- Secure baseline configurations
The Hitachi HIRT Program at Work with CERT for Security
We also address security through the Hitachi Incident Response Team (HIRT), which maintains an immediate security alert program with the global Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). CERT is pledged to immediately notify the HIRT team of any vulnerability in Hitachi hardware or software, allowing Hitachi and Hitachi Data Systems to pre-empt cyber attacks, slowdowns, or disruptions to customer systems, operations, or business activities around the globe. Hitachi Incident Response Team http://www.hitachi.com/hirt.
Learn More
If storage security is a priority for you, find out how products and solutions from Hitachi Data Systems can help address your requirements by contacting your local Hitachi Data Systems representative.
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"Whenever possible, Hitachi seeks a standards-based approach for security... Our goal is to leverage these standards and deliver products that meet the security needs and expectations of our customers."
—Jack Domme, Executive Vice President, Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems
