Solutions : Data Security Solutions

Where Hitachi Storage Systems and Software Create a Line of Defense

Storage is an effective element of a deep defensive strategy that enhances your ability to comply with laws and regulations and to optimize your storage systems. Our resilient infrastructures help you improve data security and data protection with these capabilities:

• Develop accountability at the storage layer with enhanced authentication, authorization and audit logging
• Discover weak links through ongoing scans and analysis to identify operational risks
• Ensure usability and simplicity through security measures with minimum impact to productivity
• Implement data protection:
  • Data availability through support for disaster recovery and business continuity replication that includes synchronous and asynchronous copies for local and remote storage
  • Data integrity via checksums, timestamps and read-after-write Serial-ATA
• Enable data security:
  • Immutability by using WORM to make data non-erasable and non-rewritable for a prescribed period
  • Fingerprinting objects in Hitachi Content Platform active archive to ensure long-term immutability
  • Data sanitization controlled data destruction
  • Data confidentiality through encryption of data in-flight and at-rest, using external devices
  • Data encryption built into Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and Hitachi Universal Storage Platform^® V and VM via encrypting backend directors (EBED)
  • Data encryption built into the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family via self-encrypting drives
  • Minimal additional requirements for heating and cooling resources even as performance is maintained on storage systems
• Incorporate data encryption appliances through integration with leading vendors
• Ensure safe multitenancy, logical partitioning and separation of control and data within the system architecture itself
• Audit logs with syslog access
• Use of secure management interfaces based on SMI-S standards
• Support through ITIL -based Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services
• Provide best-of-breed management software solutions from Archivas, AppIQ, APTARE and CommVault
• Access a full range of Hitachi security expertise, interfaces (CERT) and unique technologies

For more information about how products and solutions from Hitachi Data Systems can help address your data security requirements, contact your local Hitachi Data Systems representative.

See Also

• Business Continuity Solutions
• Data Security Standards
• Global Solutions Services
• Hitachi Content Platform
• Storage Management Solutions